James McAllister
Head of Cloud Infrastructure & DevSecOps
Cloud engineering executive with 16+ years architecting resilient multi-cloud platforms and embedding security-first DevOps culture across global engineering organizations.
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James McAllister is the Head of Cloud Infrastructure and DevSecOps, based in Sydney, Australia. He leads a distributed engineering team responsible for designing and operating mission-critical cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for enterprise clients in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining the company, James held principal engineering roles at Atlassian, Telstra, and NAB (National Australia Bank), where he spearheaded multi-cloud migration programs and established DevSecOps centers of excellence. He holds AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, and Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) credentials.
Key Achievements
- 1Orchestrated AUD $120M multi-cloud migration at NAB, cutting infrastructure costs by 38%
- 2Built Atlassian's internal Kubernetes platform scaling to 10,000+ microservice deployments
- 3Established DevSecOps Centre of Excellence at Telstra serving 400+ engineering squads
- 4AWS Community Hero and Google Cloud Champion Innovator
- 5Speaker at KubeCon Australia and AWS re:Invent on cloud-native security patterns
Education
BE in Software Engineering, University of Melbourne; AWS Solutions Architect Professional; Google Professional DevOps Engineer; CKS
Profile Summary
- Name
- James McAllister
- Role
- Head of Cloud Infrastructure & DevSecOps
- Achievements
- 5 Notable
