Principal Cloud Evolution Architect

Cevo Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual technology allowance

Professional development budget

Two paid course days per year

Cevo Hive Mind collaborative culture

Job summary

Cevo Australia is seeking a highly motivated Principal Cloud Evolution Consultant to lead enterprise migration programs across hybrid/multi‑cloud environments in Australia. You will shape migration strategies, design secure landing zones, and guide delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes for complex client engagements.

The role requires extensive hands‑on AWS experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and a track record of delivering enterprise transformation programs with a

Qualifications

• Extensive hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services, infrastructure design, and migration strategies.
• Deep understanding of AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).
• Proficiency in application portfolio assessment and workload prioritisation for migration.
• Strong experience with AWS networking.
• Familiarity with AWS migration tools such as Migration Hub, Application Migration Service, Database Migration Service (DMS).
• Knowledge of legacy system migration patterns, hybrid connectivity, and data centre exit strategies.
• Solid programming or scripting skills (e.g. Python, bash) for automation and migration tasks.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery outcomes for client engagements, ensuring scope, timelines, and quality expectations are met.
• Provide day‑to‑day leadership to small pods of Senior Consultants, supporting prioritisation, task allocation and delivery best practice.
• Act as the primary delivery interface with customers, managing expectations, communicating progress, and mitigating risks.
• Deliver high‑quality technical work, contributing hands‑on expertise while guiding others.
• Support scoping and estimating with the Growth team, providing input for technically sound and achievable delivery plans.
• Ensure alignment between delivery teams, technical standards, and practice guidance.
• Contribute to reusable IP and accelerators in collaboration with the Practice Manager and Principal Consultants.
• Represent Cevo professionally in customer meetings, workshops, and architecture discussions.
• Provide coaching and guidance to Senior Consultants to uplift capability within the practice.
• Support continuous improvement through retrospectives, lessons learned, and refinement of delivery approaches.

Skills

AWS cloud services

MAP

portfolio assessment

AWS networking

Python

Automation

IaC

CI/CD

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Amazon Q Developer

GitHub Copilot

SageMaker

Bedrock

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified Advanced Networking

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

CDK

Terraform

CodePipeline

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Amazon Q Developer

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Cevo Australia is seeking a highly motivated Principal Cloud Evolution Consultant to lead enterprise migration programs across hybrid/multi‑cloud environments in Australia. You will shape migration strategies, design secure landing zones, and guide delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes for complex client engagements.

The role requires extensive hands‑on AWS experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and a track record of delivering enterprise transformation programs with a