Senior Cloud Architect & Platform Leader (AWS/Azure)

Slalom Build; Canberra; On-site; AUD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Principal, Senior Cloud Architect in Australia to lead the design and delivery of modern cloud platforms for clients, with a strong focus on AWS and/or Azure. This senior role combines architecture leadership with hands-on guidance, shaping strategy into practical, scalable outcomes.

You will mentor teams, oversee IaC, CI/CD, and platform engineering, and work with stakeholders to define roadmaps while ensuring security, resilience, and efficient operations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud/solution architecture or engineering roles leading complex transformations.
• Deep experience with AWS and/or Azure in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud migration, modernisation, and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-scale cloud architecture across AWS and/or Azure, including infrastructure, platforms, integration, security, and operations.
• Define cloud strategy, target architectures, and roadmaps grounded in business priorities.
• Design secure, scalable cloud environments with landing zones, networking, identity, governance, observability, and controls.
• Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives (rehosting, replatforming, refactoring) to boost agility and cost efficiency.
• Provide technical oversight, review designs and code, unblock teams, and guide IaC, CI/CD, automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Establish cloud-native patterns and ways of working across containers, serverless, managed services, DevOps, and reliability engineering.
• Drive architecture governance to meet security, compliance, resilience, and operations requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and architecture reviews with stakeholders to align direction and trade-offs.
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers to raise capability across the practice.
• Support business development through solution shaping and trusted client advisory on cloud transformation opportunities.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS/Azure

Delivery leadership

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps practices

Security & governance

Cloud migration

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Slalom is seeking a Principal, Senior Cloud Architect in Australia to lead the design and delivery of modern cloud platforms for clients, with a strong focus on AWS and/or Azure. This senior role combines architecture leadership with hands-on guidance, shaping strategy into practical, scalable outcomes.

You will mentor teams, oversee IaC, CI/CD, and platform engineering, and work with stakeholders to define roadmaps while ensuring security, resilience, and efficient operations.