Senior Cloud Architect - Canberra

Slalom; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the design and delivery of modern cloud platforms for clients, focusing on AWS and/or Azure. You will shape architecture, guide engineering teams, and work directly with clients to turn strategy into scalable outcomes.

You will mentor teams, drive secure and resilient environments, and advance automation through IaC, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud, solution architecture, or engineering roles with leadership experience.
• Deep experience with AWS and/or Azure in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud migration, modernization, platform engineering, and cloud-native patterns.
• Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation.
• Credible in security, networking, governance, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Certifications such as AWS/Azure architect are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and hands-on shaping of enterprise-scale cloud solutions on AWS/Azure.
• Define cloud strategy, target architectures, and implementation roadmaps with business priorities.
• Design secure, scalable cloud environments including landing zones, networking, identity, and observability.
• Lead migration and modernization initiatives (rehost, replatform, refactor).
• Provide technical oversight, review designs/code, and guide IaC/CI/CD implementations.
• Partner with engineering to establish cloud-native patterns and reliable delivery methods.
• Drive governance to meet security, resilience, and operational support requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and architecture reviews with stakeholders.
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers and support business development.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS/Azure

IaC/Automation

DevOps

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Slalom is a purpose-driven consulting company focused on strategy, technology and business transformation. Founded in 2001, we had a simple goal - to build a company where people love their work and love their life. As we continue to grow in Australia, we have a responsibility and an opportunity to do good in the world. We’re committed to building our business in ways that are sustainable and responsible, while creating innovative solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. We have bold aspirations for the future, and together with our people, partners and customers, we take measurable actions for today.

Senior Cloud Architect

Slalom’s Cloud team works with clients to design and deliver cloud solutions that are secure, scalable, and fit for purpose. Our work spans cloud architecture, migration, modernisation, and platform engineering, with a strong focus on translating strategy into delivery.

As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of modern cloud platforms and solutions for our clients, with a particular focus on AWS and/or Azure. This is a senior leadership role, but one that remains close to the work: shaping architecture, guiding engineering teams, making key technical decisions, and working directly with clients to turn strategy into practical, scalable outcomes. You will help clients modernise legacy environments, build secure and resilient cloud foundations, and accelerate delivery through automation, platform engineering, and cloud-native practices.

What will you do?

• Lead the architecture and hands-on shaping of enterprise-scale cloud solutions across AWS and/or Azure, covering infrastructure, application platforms, integration, security, and operations.
• Work closely with client stakeholders, engineers, and delivery teams to define cloud strategy, target architectures, and implementation roadmaps that are grounded in business priorities and delivery realities.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud environments, including landing zones, networking, identity, governance, observability, and operational controls.
• Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives, including rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring workloads to improve agility, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Stay close to delivery by providing technical oversight, reviewing designs and code, unblocking teams, and guiding implementation of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to establish cloud-native patterns and ways of working across containers, serverless, managed services, DevOps, and reliability engineering.
• Drive architecture governance and ensure solutions meet security, compliance, resilience, and operational support requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, architecture reviews, and client discussions to align stakeholders around solution direction, trade-offs, and delivery approach.
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers, raising capability across the practice and helping teams deliver with quality and confidence.
• Support business development through solution shaping, proposal input, and trusted client advisory conversations on cloud transformation opportunities.

What You Will Bring

• 7+ years of experience in cloud, solution architecture, or engineering roles, with a strong track record of leading and delivering complex technology transformations.
• Deep experience with AWS and/or Azure, including architecture, implementation, and operational considerations in enterprise environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of cloud migration, infrastructure modernisation, platform engineering, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and engineering lifecycle improvements.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, identity, governance, resilience, and cost optimisation.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture thinking with practical delivery leadership, and credibility working with both senior stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and build trust at all levels of an organisation.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar are highly desirable.

Please note that this role requires Australian Citizenship and a Baseline security clearance, at minimum.

Our Values

There’s work-life and life-life. And we think it’s time they got together for good. Calibrated to your needs and to your life, we want every builder to be happy, healthy, supported, and inspired. Every day. For this reason, we offer health and well-being, learning and growth, and tech perks (to name a few). We also provide a welcoming place to connect and share experiences and perspectives through our Employee Resource Groups. So that every builder feels safe to be themselves everywhere.

Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.