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
* Establish new foundational reference architectures and help 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
* Have tertiary qualifications combined with GCP certification (AWS will also be considered)
* Demonstrate proven Cloud Architect experience in large, complex environments (Financial Services highly regarded)
* Show strong hands‐on GCP engineering background (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, networking)
* Exhibit excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
* Be able 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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