Senior Manager Cloud Infrastructure

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future digitally enabled state both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods fusing strategy consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next our 20000 people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology data sciences consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

Senior Manager Cloud & DevOps Engineering

As a Senior Manager Cloud & DevOps Engineering you lead the engineering side of our clients digital business transformations with cloud security observability and DevOps as the key enablers. You blend hands-on depth with consulting and advisory skill shaping cloud and platform strategies for clients and leading the squads that bring them to life. You will help transform how leading Australian organisations build run and scale their software.

Your Impact

• Partner with clients to turn complex ideas into end-to-end cloud and platform solutions that transform their business.
• Lead the engineering side of digital transformations across single and multi-cloud with security observability and DevOps as core enablers.
• Design and maintain highly scalable secure and reliable cloud infrastructure optimised for performance and cost and compliant with security standards.
• Work in consulting and advisory roles engaging business and technical stakeholders to shape cloud platform and DevOps strategies.
• Run cloud readiness assessments architecture reviews and cost optimisation and FinOps initiatives for clients.
• Build and champion internal developer platforms and platform engineering practices that lift delivery velocity across teams.
• EmbedDevSecOps integrating security and policy as code into the delivery lifecycle.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to improve productivity and delivery quality.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud and DevOps engineers.

Skills & Experience

• 12 years of hands-on experience in cloud and DevOps with recent experience leading engineers and engaging clients.
• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud (must have):across compute identity networking storage serverless database Kubernetes messaging and operations tooling.
• AWS for example EC2 IAM VPC S3 Lambda RDS SNS and CloudWatch.
• GCP for example Compute IAM VPC Cloud Storage serverless database GKE Pub/Sub and Operations Suite.
• Azure for example Virtual Machines Entra ID Virtual Network Blob Storage Functions database Service Bus and Azure Monitor.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining infrastructure as code preferably Terraform or CloudFormation ARM templates Deployment Manager
• Container platforms:designing implementing and upgrading managed and self-hosted Kubernetes (EKS GKE AKS or on-prem) Helm-based deployments and service mesh for traffic management such as Istio.
• CI/CD:building and maintaining delivery pipelines with tools such as Git Jenkins GitLab orCircleCI with automated build test and deployment quality gates and vulnerability scanning.
• DevSecOps:integrating security into the delivery lifecycle including policy as code security automation and artefact management.
• Observability:designing monitoring logging tracing and alerting using tools such as Prometheus Grafana the Elastic StackOpenTelemetry Datadog or Dynatrace.
• Configuration and monitoring of DNS application servers load balancers and firewalls for high-volume traffic.
• Hands-on experience with cloud readiness assessments cost optimisation and FinOps practices.
• Consulting mindset with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Set Yourself Apart With

• Public cloud certifications associate level or above.
• Terraform certification.
• Experience building internal developer platforms as part of a platform engineering function.
• Exposure to regulated industries such as financial services payments or health.

Additional Information

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race color national origin ethnicity gender protected veteran status disability sexual orientation gender identity or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may contact us at

Required Experience:

Senior Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1