Australian sovereign cloud infrastructure for government and defence
Vault Cloud operates a hyperscale cloud platform built on OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph, serving Australian federal and state government plus defence contractors under a Sovereign Defence Security arrangement. The tech stack—infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Rancher, OpenShift)—reflects a hardened, compliance-first engineering culture. Current hiring is concentrated in engineering (6 roles) with mid-to-senior split, while pain points cluster around scaling secure infrastructure and meeting national security demands, indicating the company is at an inflection point between startup-phase product-market fit and enterprise-scale operations.
Vault Cloud is an Australian-owned cloud infrastructure provider established in 2012, offering hyperscale cloud services certified to the highest Australian Signals Directorate security standards. The company holds direct investment from the Commonwealth through the National Reconstruction Fund and operates under a Sovereign Defence Security arrangement, positioning it as the primary cloud provider for sensitive government and defence workloads in Australia. Vault serves federal and state government agencies, defence primes, and their supply-chain partners, managing highly sensitive workloads across on-premises migration, containerized workloads, and edge compute scenarios. The company operates from Canberra with 51–200 employees.
OpenStack and Ceph for core infrastructure; Kubernetes, Rancher, and OpenShift for container orchestration; Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure-as-code; GitLab and Jenkins for CI/CD; Linux and Cisco networking.
Vault holds ASD (Australian Signals Directorate) certification—the highest available in Australia—and operates under a Sovereign Defence Security arrangement with Commonwealth backing through the National Reconstruction Fund.
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