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.