Solution Architect - Platforms

Transport for NSW; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 158,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to drive the cloud and platform strategy across AWS and Azure, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective environments. You will lead the design of enterprise solutions, with a focus on DevSecOps and IaC automation, in a hybrid multi-cloud context.

You will oversee complex migrations, incident-free deployments, and alignment with enterprise architecture, while engaging stakeholders and shaping technology roadmaps for the organisation.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture across AWS and Azure.
• Experience leading large-scale cloud transformations.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and security posture management.

Responsibilities

• Drive cloud and platform strategy across enterprise environments.
• Lead architecture design for complex infrastructure, networks and security.
• Define architecture standards and enable IaC automation for consistent deployments.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevSecOps

Stakeholder engagement

IaC automation

Tools

AWS

Azure

AKS

EKS

Job description

Job category:Information & Communication Technology

Job location:Macquarie Park, NSW, AU, 2113

Job reference number:107292

Employment type:Permanent Full-Time

Salary range:$158393.0-$177399.0

You’re agile, keen and open to meaningful work and opportunities that come your way.

Your innovative mindset is key to creating solutions to complex problems. Our systems drive our organisational success and underpin every journey our customers take. This is your opportunity to be part of an expert team who build and refine seamless technology experiences.

In this role, you’ll:

Working as part of a team delivering Technology products and services across Transport for NSW, you will help shape our enterprise platform, cloud, and technology architecture. In this role, you will be the driving force behind our cloud and platform strategy, architecture, and operations across AWS and Azure, ensuring our environments remain scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective.

You will lead the design of platform and cloud solutions involving complex infrastructure, networks, and security architectures within an enterprise-scale, hybrid, and multi-cloud environment. A key part of your focus will be guiding complex cloud transformation initiatives and large-scale enterprise migrations, while driving robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments. You will define the domain architecture and design standards for modern DevOps practices, effectively bridging the gap between infrastructure, security, and software engineering. All solutions you design will need to tightly align with both immediate business needs and our broader enterprise architecture principles.

To be successful, you are recognised as a domain architecture authority with proven experience in cloud architecture, security posture management, FinOps, and platform engineering within complex or regulated environments. Your strong background in DevSecOps practices, combined with excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, will see you excel in identifying strategic opportunities, addressing architectural weaknesses, driving optimisation, and ensuring solutions deliver tangible business value and compliance.

For more information on this position and business unit,view the role description and information pack.

About you

You possess deep, hands-on design knowledge in both AWS and Azure platforms, alongside proven experience executing large-scale cloud transformations and IoC automation. Additionally, you bring a strong design & implementation knowlege of container platforms (such as AKS, EKS, and service meshes) to help guide our future technology roadmap. Relevant cloud certifications are highly regarded, as is previous experience designing and integrating Enterprise AI platforms, such as Microsoft Foundry.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work optionsmay be available. Learn more viaFlexible work options and policy

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Applications close 11:59 PM Wednesday 8 July 2026.

For more information about this role, please contact ***********@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

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