The Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) is seeking a highly motivated, experienced, and strategic leader to fill the position of Cloud Services, Assistant Director (PEL1) within the Digital Capability and Operations (DCO) Branch.
The Cloud Services, Assistant Director is responsible for leading the delivery, governance, and continuous improvement of DPS cloud platforms and services, ensuring they are secure, reliable, scalable, and aligned with business and strategic objectives. This role plays a critical leadership function in driving cloud adoption, modernisation initiatives, operational excellence, and financial management across cloud environments.
The successful applicant will provide leadership and oversight of cloud operations, architecture, governance, and service delivery activities while fostering a high-performing and collaborative team culture. The role will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and senior executives to ensure cloud capabilities support the evolving needs of Parliament and DPS.
The Cloud Services, Assistant Director will contribute to strategic planning, technology roadmaps, service improvement initiatives, and organisational transformation programs. The position requires sound judgement, strong leadership capability, and the ability to manage complex operational and strategic priorities within a highly regulated government environment.
This role is responsible for managing cloud service performance, security, risk, compliance, vendor relationships, and cloud financial operations (FinOps) to ensure DPS derives maximum value from its technology investments while maintaining compliance with relevant government frameworks and standards.
A merit pool may be established from this recruitment process and used to fill similar ongoing or non-ongoing vacancies as they arise.
Job Specific Requirements:
The successful applicant will be required to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting 1 (Confidential/Highly Protected/Secret) security clearance.
The role may require participation in an on-call ICT support roster and occasional out-of-hours work to support operational requirements, project activities and parliamentary sitting periods.
At DPS, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that ensures all our people can contribute to our shared purpose. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with caring responsibilities, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, people from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people who identify as neurodivergent, and mature aged people.
