Senior Cloud Architect - Canberra

Job summary

The Senior Cloud Architect role focuses on leading the design and delivery of modern cloud platforms, primarily utilizing AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include shaping enterprise-scale cloud solutions, guiding engineering teams, and driving cloud migration and modernization initiatives while ensuring compliance with security standards.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Strong practical knowledge of cloud migration, infrastructure modernisation, platform engineering, and cloud-native architecture patterns
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling
• Experience with DevOps practices and tooling
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, identity, governance, resilience, and cost optimisation
• Ability to balance strategic architecture thinking with practical delivery leadership
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and hands-on shaping of enterprise-scale cloud solutions across AWS and/or Azure
• Work closely with client stakeholders, engineers, and delivery teams to define cloud strategy, target architectures, and implementation roadmaps
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud environments
• Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives
• Provide technical oversight, reviewing designs and code, unblocking teams
• Partner with engineering teams to establish cloud-native patterns and ways of working
• Drive architecture governance and ensure solutions meet security, compliance, resilience, and operational support requirements
• Facilitate workshops, architecture reviews, and client discussions
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers
• Support business development through solution shaping, proposal input, and trusted client advisory conversations

Skills

Certifications

Security clearance

Relocation