Hands-On Cloud Security Architect: Secure by Design

Talent Corp; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 166,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Job summary

Talent Corp in Melbourne is seeking a hands-on security architecture specialist for a cloud-centric modernization program. You will work closely with cloud, platform and infrastructure teams to turn security requirements into practical patterns, guardrails and secure-by-default capabilities.

The role targets Senior Cloud Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer or Cloud Architect with recent architecture ownership, strong GCP foundations, and experience across Terraform, Kubernetes, and secure IaC

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on background in cloud engineering, cloud security engineering or cloud architecture with recent ownership of architecture or design decisions.
• Deep experience with GCP cloud foundations, supported by working knowledge of AWS or Azure security environments.
• Practical experience with Terraform, infrastructure-as-code and automated security control enforcement.
• Experience securing Kubernetes, containers, serverless platforms or other cloud-native workload environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud identity, workload identities, secrets management, logging and cloud security controls.
• Ability to work directly with engineers while producing clear architecture diagrams, standards, guardrails and stakeholder recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Embed within cloud, platform and infrastructure delivery teams to ensure new services and workloads are secure by design.
• Define cloud foundation security patterns covering landing zones, organisational structures, identity, logging and policy controls.
• Produce reusable reference architectures, standards, architecture decision records and implementation guardrails.
• Develop secure patterns for Kubernetes, containerised workloads, serverless services, workload identities, secrets and hardened images.
• Integrate security controls into Terraform, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Provide practical guidance across database security, cloud security posture, AI-enabled services and technical risk decisions.

Skills

Cloud security engineering

Cloud architecture leadership

Security patterns

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Talent Corp in Melbourne is seeking a hands-on security architecture specialist for a cloud-centric modernization program. You will work closely with cloud, platform and infrastructure teams to turn security requirements into practical patterns, guardrails and secure-by-default capabilities.

The role targets Senior Cloud Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer or Cloud Architect with recent architecture ownership, strong GCP foundations, and experience across Terraform, Kubernetes, and secure IaC