IT/Cloud Manager | Permanent Position | AWS experience required
Your recent company
You'll be joining a well-established organisation known for delivering complex, cloud-based technology solutions across Australia and New Zealand. The business is experiencing strong growth and is investing heavily in modernising its cloud and operational capabilities. They have a collaborative culture, a supportive leadership team, and a clear focus on innovation, service excellence and continuous improvement.
Your new role
As the Cloud Manager, you will lead the day-to-day operations of a growing Technical Operations team. This is a hands-on leadership role, but you will still need the technical depth to guide, challenge and support your engineers-particularly in AWS.
Managing a team of six (from experienced engineers through to junior and graduate talent), you'll oversee cloud operations, ensure system stability, and uplift best-practice processes across the environment. You'll collaborate closely with DevOps and development teams, support key cloud-based platforms, and contribute to architectural decisions around how systems are built and improved.
You'll also drive innovation, uplift operational maturity, and play a key role in shaping cloud capability as the organisation moves deeper into DevOps, automation and modern tooling.
What you'll need to succeed
Proven experience managing or leading a technical team, ideally within cloud, infrastructure or operations.
Hands-on background with AWS cloud,



with the ability to guide technical decisions, mentor engineers and make informed choices around capability and cost optimisation.
Strong operational support experience and familiarity with cloud-based environments.
A passion for technology, problem-solving and driving continuous improvement.
Ability to develop and maintain scalable processes, operational frameworks and best practices.
Experience influencing technical direction and contributing to architectural decision-making.
Strong stakeholder management, leadership capability and the confidence to act as an escalation point.
Solid understanding of modern IT operational processes, governance and service delivery.
What you'll get in return
A competitive salary up to $170,000 + super for the right candidate
Performance-based bonus
Strong company culture with a supportive leadership team
Access to a wide range of employee benefits
Opportunity to help shape a modern cloud environment and influence technical direction
Work model: 3 days in the office, 2 from home
Involvement in exciting cloud projects, modern tooling and early-stage DevOps initiatives
What you need to do now
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📌 Cloud Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Hays
📍 Sydney