Senior Cloud Security Architect – AWS & Zero Trust (Brisbane)

Whizdom; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Whizdom seeks a senior Cloud Security Architect to design and maintain secure AWS architectures in Brisbane. You will embed security requirements across the cloud delivery lifecycle and work with cloud engineers, application teams and security stakeholders to strengthen the organisation’s cloud posture.

You will lead threat modelling, risk assessments and security control implementations, focusing on IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring and multi‑account governance to enable secure cloud

Qualifications

• At least 10 years in cyber security architecture and engineering.
• Experience designing security architectures for large-scale AWS environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security services and capabilities.
• Experience conducting cloud security assessments and threat modelling.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure AWS cloud architectures aligned with policies and regulatory requirements.
• Develop security architecture across IAM, network security, encryption and data protection.
• Establish guardrails and patterns for multi-account environments and landing zones.
• Provide security guidance for cloud infrastructure, platforms and services.

Skills

AWS security services

Threat modelling

Zero Trust

Defence in depth

Cloud governance

Identity and access management

CI/CD security

Tools

AWS IAM

GuardDuty

Security Hub

CloudTrail

CloudWatch

KMS

Secrets Manager

Control Tower

WAF

Organizations

Config

Job description

Whizdom seeks a senior Cloud Security Architect to design and maintain secure AWS architectures in Brisbane. You will embed security requirements across the cloud delivery lifecycle and work with cloud engineers, application teams and security stakeholders to strengthen the organisation’s cloud posture.

You will lead threat modelling, risk assessments and security control implementations, focusing on IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring and multi‑account governance to enable secure cloud