Cloud Platform Product Owner (AWS / Azure)
Location: Centurion (Hybrid) | Contract Duration: 12 Months | Industry: Financial Services
The Role
Our client is seeking a highly skilled Cloud Platform Product Owner for a high-impact 12-month contract. This is not a traditional Scrum Product Owner role. The successful candidate will operate within a complex enterprise cloud ecosystem and will hold operational ownership, driving the optimisation, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of cloud platform products and services across AWS and Azure.
This role requires a candidate who demonstrates exceptional Product Ownership maturity combined with a deep understanding of cloud platform operations and platform-as-a-product thinking. You will act as a vital collaborator to ensure cloud services remain scalable, secure, governed, consumable, and operationally effective across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities- Own and prioritise cloud platform and service backlogs across AWS and Azure environments.
- Support cloud service roadmap planning aligned to enterprise cloud strategy and governance standards.
- Collaborate closely with Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Security, Risk, FinOps, SRE, and Operations teams.
- Translate business and operational demand into clear, prioritised backlog outcomes.
- Support the delivery of scalable, secure, reliable, and governed cloud platform capabilities.
- Drive backlog refinement, sprint planning participation, and operational readiness alignment.
- Support cloud service catalogue optimisation and platform enablement initiatives.
- Monitor and assess operational value, service performance, adoption, and platform maturity.
- Contribute actively to cloud governance, operational resilience, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Proven experience in Product Ownership or Platform Product Management within a complex enterprise or regulated environment.
- Direct experience operating within cloud platform, cloud operations, cloud enablement, or platform engineering environments (rather than purely project coordination or business analysis functions).
- Enterprise cloud platform delivery experience across AWS and/or Azure ecosystems.
- Strong backlog ownership and prioritisation capability alongside engineering-led delivery teams.
- Solid understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps practices, and platform operations.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication capability with true lifecycle accountability.
- Ability to balance business value and operational stability with security and scalability.
- Exposure to cloud governance, operational controls, and platform enablement.
- Advantageous technical exposure to Kubernetes, Container Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Observability & Monitoring, FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimisation, Identity & Access Management, Cloud Security & Governance, SRE, or Landing Zones & Shared Services.
- Relevant AWS or Azure cloud platform certifications are highly preferred.
- A tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field is advantageous.
- A competitive market-related contract rate.
- A collaborative and forward-thinking hybrid work environment (3 days on-site in Centurion, 2 days remote).
- Direct exposure to large-scale enterprise cloud evolution, modern platform engineering, and advanced cloud architecture.
If you do not hear back from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.