Cloud Solution Architect - GCP / AWS

  • Australia
  • Sydney
  • Contract
  • AU$1100 - AU$1200 per day

A leading Australian Financial Services provider is seeking a Cloud Architect with strong GCP engineering experience to join their Infrastructure Architecture team on an initial six-month contract (with strong extension potential).

Working across multiple business units and locations, you’ll design target-state cloud architecture and establish new foundational reference architectures, lead technical workshops, and guide engineering teams on GCP best practices. This is a hands-on role requiring both strategic architecture thinking and practical cloud engineering expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design high-level GCP architectures aligned to enterprise guardrails and security standards
  • Establishing new foundational reference architectures and helping shape GCP cloud architecture, landing zones and implementing best practice
  • Contribute to architecture decisions, costing and project estimates
  • Facilitate technical workshops with stakeholders across the business
  • Provide technical leadership to engineering teams

Essential Requirements:

  • Tertiary qualifications combined with GCP certification (AWS will also be considered)
  • Proven Cloud Architect experience in large, complex environments (Financial Services highly regarded)
  • Strong hands-on GCP engineering background (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, networking)
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Ability to influence technical decisions at senior levels

What’s on Offer:

  • Competitive daily rate
  • Hybrid working: 2-3 days in office, remainder WFH
  • High likelihood of extension

Interested? If so apply now to be considered!

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