Hybrid Senior Cloud Solution Architect

at CYOS Solutions

• Job title: Senior Cloud Solution Architect
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: A$140 - A$160 per hour
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Melbourne, Australia

About the role

• Senior Cloud Solution Architect delivering application development projects on public cloud platforms for Services Australia. Responsible for solution architecture work with a focus on Azure or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Identify the appropriate end-to-end solution portfolio, considering all relevant ICT solutions and service offerings such as best practices.
• Identify solution gaps and develop gap closure options such as the inclusion of components from Independent Software Vendors or customer-specific development.
• Architect the end-to-end functional landscape and solution design to support desired business processes and business/ICT requirements of the customer, ensuring alignment.
• Design robust and reusable architectures to support the deployment of greenfield and brownfield cloud platforms in either Azure or AWS.
• Provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to teams on best practices for both Azure and AWS environments.
• Document, present and discuss the end-to-end architecture and solution options, recommendations and implications, facilitate and support the decision process.
• Identify cross-process and cross-solution integration points and lead the coordination across various software and service components of the end-to-end solution.
• Lead end-to-end solution analysis, design, integration, architecture, co-existence and migration.
• Ensure work aligns with business processes and overall delivery outcomes.
• Act as single point of contact to orchestrate the various parties involved in large and complex projects/programs from a primarily architecture/technical perspective.
• Drive innovation, continuous improvement and manage and lead change.
• Proactively share knowledge and expertise as the subject matter expert.
• Oversee and prepare a range of architecture documentation and reports.
• Collaborate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to achieve project outcomes.
• Resolve very complex, sensitive and/or escalated technical issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Architect, with expertise in architecting greenfield and brownfield setups in either Azure OR AWS public clouds, including IaC implementations and secure-by-design principles.
• Strong knowledge of networking in either or both platforms: Azure (VNets, peering, NSGs, routing) and/or AWS (VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways), including hybrid connectivity.
• Experience in governance and security: Implementing policies, guardrails, RBAC/IAM, and tools like Azure Security Center or AWS Security Hub.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline), and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Understanding of Australian government cloud requirements, including data sovereignty, security classifications, and regulatory compliance.
• Proficiency in relevant technologies, frameworks, and tools, as well as the ability to translate complex technical requirements into scalable and sustainable solutions is imperative.
• Data governance, privacy laws, and other pertinent policies that impact solution delivery within Services Australia.
• Proven ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and facilitate discussions that drive consensus on ensuring alignment with project and organisational goals.
• Understanding of architecture principles, and enterprise technologies.