Senior Cloud Architect / Cloud Engineer

Location: Remote
Security Clearance: Baseline
Contract Period: 12 months + 2 × 12 month extension options
Closing: 11:59pm Friday 25 September 2026

Current and former ADF personnel encouraged to apply

The Opportunity:

The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) strives to encourage the sustainable growth of Australian industries including the delivery of a national innovation system to drive knowledge creation, international competitiveness and greater productivity.

The CIO Group provides a range of enabling services and operations delivery to the department and to Australian businesses and are seeking experienced and motivated Cloud Engineers and/or Architects with a minimum of 5 years' experience to assist with the delivery of various ICT Projects across the CIO Group.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Cloud Engineers and/or Architects will be required to:

• Develop enterprise level cloud platform architectures for MS Azure and M365;

• Develop high level solution architectures for cloud-based systems;

• Develop detailed architecture guidance for cloud engineers;

• Provide impact analysis of user/stakeholder requirements;

• Ensure that the enterprise and system solutions maintain adherence to whole-of-government standards;

• Provide technical guidance and input into the design and build of cloud-based systems;

• Liaise with a cross-functional teams including business owners, scrum masters, business analysts, developers, enterprise architects & testers to produce solutions in accordance with stakeholder requirements and project objectives;

• Liaise with the department’s Service Experience team to ensure architectural decisions incorporate user experience considerations

• Liaise with ICT Engagement and Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment to target architectures and technology.

• Provide expertise and assistance in platform automation – testing, continuous integration and deployment

• Promote key enterprise architecture principles as applicable to cloud platforms – re-use before buy/build, configure over customise, open data/access over siloed functionality

• Promote and provide assistance to ensure solutions align with the DTA’s Digital Service Standard

• Be strategic, a leader and influencer.

  • Undertake additional duties as required.

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