Cloud Architect: Google Distributed Cloud & Sovereign Infra

FinXL Professional Services Pty; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

FinXL is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to design and deploy secure Google Distributed Cloud and sovereign Kubernetes platforms within Australian Defence and national security environments. The role requires active NV1 clearance, Australian citizenship, and 5+ years’ experience in defence or national security settings.

You will implement GDC Hosted, Air-Gapped and Edge infrastructure, manage multi-tenant Kubernetes, and drive Terraform-basedIaC and GitOps.

Qualifications

• Active NV1 clearance and Australian citizenship.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Australian Defence or national security environments.
• Production-grade GKE, Kubernetes, Anthos or GDC experience.
• Strong expertise in hybrid cloud, bare-metal, SDDC, VMware, HCI or edge infrastructure.
• Hands-on Terraform and infrastructure automation experience.
• Understanding of secure networking and Kubernetes security.
• Knowledge of ISM, DSPF and government security requirements.
• Strong architecture documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy GDC Hosted, Air-Gapped and Edge infrastructure.
• Architect, secure and manage GKE/Kubernetes platforms in multi-tenant and disconnected environments.
• Implement Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code and GitOps using Config Sync, Helm and Kustomize.
• Design resilient edge infrastructure, high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Integrate cloud platforms with VMware, hyperconverged infrastructure and legacy Defence systems.
• Develop high/low-level design documents and runbooks.
• Apply security controls, IAM/PAM, mTLS and cryptographic key management.
• Support IRAP assessments and Defence security compliance.

Skills

Architecture documentation

Stakeholder communication

Security controls

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

Terraform

GKE/Kubernetes

Config Sync

Helm

Kustomize

VMware

Ansible

Python

Job description

FinXL is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to design and deploy secure Google Distributed Cloud and sovereign Kubernetes platforms within Australian Defence and national security environments. The role requires active NV1 clearance, Australian citizenship, and 5+ years’ experience in defence or national security settings.

You will implement GDC Hosted, Air-Gapped and Edge infrastructure, manage multi-tenant Kubernetes, and drive Terraform-basedIaC and GitOps.