Senior Azure Cloud Architect / Cloud Engineer

- Location: Canberra ACT (Federal Government client)
- Security clearance: Baseline or Above required
- Contract Tenure: Initial 12-month contract + 2 x 12-month extensions | Up to 40 hours per week

NW Technology is seeking experienced Senior Azure Cloud Architects and Cloud Engineers to support the delivery of major cloud and digital initiatives within a Federal Government setting.

We are looking for professionals who can combine strong architecture capability with hands-on Azure engineering experience. You will help design, implement and continuously improve secure, scalable cloud platforms and applications while providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Key responsibilities

- Develop enterprise cloud and solution architectures across Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the design and delivery of secure cloud solutions.
- Translate stakeholder requirements into scalable application, integration, networking and identity designs.
- Support platform automation, testing, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD deployment.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary business, delivery, security and architecture teams.
- Ensure solutions align with Australian Government security standards, target architectures and the DTA Digital Service Standard.
- Promote reusable,



configurable and open architectural patterns.
- Mentor team members and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About you

You will have strong experience designing, implementing and managing Azure cloud platforms and solutions, including:

- Azure applications and integration: App Services, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, Azure SQL and Dynamics 365 integrations.
- Identity, security and monitoring: Entra ID, Key Vault, RBAC, Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
- DevOps and infrastructure: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates, Virtual Networks and Private Endpoints.
- Architecture and governance: Enterprise/application architecture, cloud security and whole-of-government standards.

You will also bring experience working in Agile, geographically dispersed teams, along with strong stakeholder engagement, communication, mentoring and technical leadership skills.

Highly desirable

- Experience designing architectures for large, complex enterprise environments.
- Application, integration or cloud platform architecture experience.
- AWS or Google Cloud experience.
- Australian Government delivery experience.
- Knowledge of the ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight and DTA standards.

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