Clearance: Must hold a baseline or be eligible to obtain

The Opportunity

A nationally critical Government regulator is entering the next phase of its cloud evolution. The first wave of migration is complete. Core platforms are already operating in Azure and AWS. The foundation exists. Now the work shifts to what actually matters.

Decomposing legacy. Strengthening security posture. Re-architecting services to be resilient, governed, and built for national scale.

This is enterprise cloud inside a PROTECTED environment. Architecture decisions here don’t sit in slide decks. They underpin how businesses register, how markets are monitored, and how enforcement actions are executed across Australia.

This role suits a senior cloud architect who is comfortable operating in complexity. You’ll bring enterprise judgement, security awareness, and the ability to translate regulatory constraints into pragmatic, scalable cloud design.

This is not greenfield experimentation. It’s adjacency-led modernisation at a national scale.

The Role

- Producing high and low-level architecture designs across AWS workloads
- Decomposing legacy applications into scalable, cloud-aligned patterns
- Designing shared services, landing zones, and guardrails that other teams can safely build on
- Embedding security, identity, and compliance controls into platform design from day one
- Improving resilience, performance, and cost efficiency across the AWS estate




- Partnering with cyber, infrastructure, and engineering teams to remove architectural bottlenecks
- Reviewing and challenging peer designs to lift overall platform standards
- Presenting architecture decisions clearly within governance and design authority forums
- Balancing technical purity with operational reality and regulatory constraints

Business Context

- Commercial off-the-shelf platforms hosted in the cloud
- Robust governance, security, and compliance posture
- Multi-year modernisation programs across registry, regulatory, and infrastructure domains

What We’re Looking For

- Australian citizenship, with the ability to obtain Baseline clearance
- 5+ years in cloud or infrastructure architecture
- Deep AWS platform alignment
- Experience designing shared services, governance, and scalable AWS environments
- Background in regulated, enterprise, financial services, or government settings
- Clear communication and the confidence to defend architecture decisions
- Less suited: purely software-first engineers without enterprise architecture exposure.

Application Process

- Two interview stages
- Mandatory psychometric assessment

The end-to-end process can take close to two months due to the clearance application. Please be prepared for that timeline.

Apply now or reach out for a confidential discussion.

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📌 Cloud Architect (City of Sydney)
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 City of Sydney