Cloud Solution Architect - GCP

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 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
• 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

To apply, please submit your resume online to be considered for this exciting opportunity!

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