Senior Azure Solution Architect for Government Cloud

Profectus; Canberra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Profectus is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead cloud transformation for an Australian Government department. You will design end-to-end Azure solutions, drive migration of legacy systems to secure, scalable platforms, and provide direction to engineering, security and delivery teams.

Designs must meet ISM/PSPF requirements and align with whole-of-government standards. In this senior role you will govern architectures, support accreditation, and transfer knowledge to agency

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in solution and cloud architecture for complex cloud transformation programs.
• Proven ability to design and govern cloud solutions using IaC, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of Australian Government security, risk and assurance requirements (ISM/PSPF).
• Experience delivering cloud solutions in secure, regulated environments.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure technologies (Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, .NET, IIS, AD).
• Experience mentoring junior staff and contributing to design governance and assurance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of target-state architecture aligned to policies and Azure practices.
• Design end-to-end Azure solutions to migrate systems to PaaS and cloud-native platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance on migration, modernization and secure design.
• Govern landing zones, identity, networking, and security controls across environments.
• Collaborate with security, cloud engineering, delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Produce architecture diagrams, technical designs and implementation artefacts.
• Support governance, design reviews, accreditation and transition to BAU.
• Champion infrastructure-as-code, automation and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Identify architectural risks and inform decision-making throughout delivery.
• Assist in security assurance activities, disaster recovery and resilience planning.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud architecture

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

Security governance

Azure platform

Education

Microsoft Azure architecture certifications

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Profectus is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead cloud transformation for an Australian Government department. You will design end-to-end Azure solutions, drive migration of legacy systems to secure, scalable platforms, and provide direction to engineering, security and delivery teams.

Designs must meet ISM/PSPF requirements and align with whole-of-government standards. In this senior role you will govern architectures, support accreditation, and transfer knowledge to agency