Technical Product Owner -Hybrid Cloud platforms

He angitūtanga: The opportunity

Auckland Council’s Technology Services team is seeking an experienced Technical Product Owner to lead our Hybrid Cloud Platforms team on a journey as we modernise our technology landscape.

This role has ownership across a broad hybrid cloud ecosystem, including AWS, Azure and GCP, private cloud, backup and storage platforms.

You will have input into product direction and maintain a prioritised roadmap and backlog, ensuring our platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable and fit for purpose. You will balance platform lifecycle and remediation requirements with emerging technology needs, technical debt, operational performance and demand from teams consuming these services.

Working closely with architects, engineering and operational teams, vendors and service owners, you will help establish clear platform standards and pathways that enable teams to effectively consume and build upon our cloud services.

He kōrero mōu: About you

You will bring strong product ownership capability with technical fluency across cloud and enterprise infrastructure platforms.

You will understand the complexities of operating hybrid cloud environments and be confident making prioritisation decisions across platform investment, lifecycle, security, resilience and continuous improvement.

Ideally, you will bring experience across:

• Product roadmaps, backlog management and prioritisation


• Experience leading and supporting technical teams to succeed


• Public cloud environments including AWS, Azure and GCP


• Private cloud and enterprise infrastructure platforms


• Backup, storage and data protection technologies


• Cloud platform lifecycle, resilience, security and remediation


• Platform health, monitoring and operational supportability

You will be able to translate complex platform requirements, risks and technical trade offs into clear decisions and priorities, while ensuring the teams you lead have the standards, documentation and support pathways they need.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer

This is an opportunity to shape the foundational platforms that underpin Auckland Council’s technology environment.

You will work across a diverse hybrid cloud landscape and influence how cloud and infrastructure platforms evolve, helping create secure, resilient and sustainable services that enable technology teams across the organisation.

Auckland Council offers a range of benefits and development opportunities, alongside the opportunity to contribute to technology services supporting Auckland and its communities.

Tono mai: Apply now
Close date 11th October