Senior Platform Architect - Cloud & DevOps (AWS)

Slalom; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Slalom is a people-focused technology and business consulting firm helping clients achieve measurable outcomes. The Senior Architect – Platform Engineering role focuses on hands-on cloud work in AWS, driving DevOps strategy, architecture, and implementation across cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.

We value collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering real-world impact for ANZ clients, guiding organisations through secure, scalable cloud adoption and automation

Qualifications

• Senior Architect with production experience in software engineering and DevOps on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on technical lead for multi-functional product teams delivering Platform Engineering solutions.
• Lead engagement discovery and own design and delivery of platform solutions.
• Provide domain expertise in DevOps tooling, delivery methods, and practices across clients.
• Lead work effort estimation and story pointing to align goals.
• Develop technical guidance and training materials for teams.
• Participate in internal events and community initiatives.
• Support learning through presenting at conferences, writing blogs, and workshops.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Cloud security IAM

Agile delivery

Tools

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM

Job description

Slalom is a people-focused technology and business consulting firm helping clients achieve measurable outcomes. The Senior Architect – Platform Engineering role focuses on hands-on cloud work in AWS, driving DevOps strategy, architecture, and implementation across cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.

We value collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering real-world impact for ANZ clients, guiding organisations through secure, scalable cloud adoption and automation