Senior Solutions Architect / Technical Consultant – 6 month FTC

Company: Just After Midnight (JAM) – Part of Trustmarque Ultima Group

Location - Sydney, Australia

Just After Midnight (JAM) is a global next-gen managed service provider with teams across the UK, Europe, the US, Australia, and APAC. We provide 24/7 application and cloud support, SRE, managed AWS and multi-cloud services, DevOps, and observability to mission-critical applications for scale-ups, SaaS product companies, and enterprise brands. We're an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and hold security accreditations including ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, and PCI DSS.

Our mantra: Always On, So You Can Switch Off.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Solutions Architect / Technical Consultant, based in Australia, to own the technical relationship for a small number of customer accounts and to be the person who designs, recommends, and then stands behind the recommendation. You'll run Well-Architected Reviews end to end, shape the roadmaps our engineers execute, and work alongside an Account Manager on the technical side of winning recent work. This is a role for someone who wants to hold a few accounts properly rather than many superficially, and who gets more out of presenting their own findings to a customer's CTO than out of writing them for someone else to present.

We're looking for someone strong in both Azure and AWS, and preferably stronger in Azure. We have many customers on AWS, so you'll be working in it from day one. Azure is where our growth potential is.

What You'll Do

- Own Your Accounts: Hold the architecture, risk and cost picture for three to five customers, keep it current, and build the three, six and twelve month technical roadmap that our engineers then execute. Lead the technical content of monthly service reviews and quarterly business reviews.
- Well-Architected Reviews: Run them end to end, to our published standard. You'll author the report and present it yourself, to engineers and to executives. We don't split writing and presenting between two people.
- Technical Pre-Sales:



You’ll be working with an Account Manager on discovery workshops, architecture design sessions, scoping, and the technical sections of proposals and RFP responses. This is engineering work with a commercial outcome; you won't carry a sales quota.
- Systems Design: Design and document secure, resilient, cost-effective architectures across Azure and AWS, covering compute, networking, storage, identity, high availability and disaster recovery. Lead complex migrations and modernisations through to operational handover.
- Managed Service & Support Rota: Take your share of the L2 rota and act as a senior escalation point on complex, high-impact incidents.
- Enablement: Pair with our engineers on customer-facing delivery, jointly authoring and jointly presenting, so consulting-grade work can be produced across the region rather than in one place.
- Standards & Practice: Contribute to reference architectures, the Well-Architected delivery standard, and our skills matrix, and keep your own certifications current against an agreed plan.

What We're Looking For

- Multi-Cloud Depth: Strong experience in cloud infrastructure engineering or architecture, with genuine depth across both Microsoft Azure and AWS — on either platform, enough to design a production architecture and defend it under questioning. If you're stronger on one than the other, we'd prefer Azure.
- Customer-Facing Track Record: Proven experience in a consulting, professional services or managed services role, with evidence that you ran the conversation yourself: led the discovery, wrote the recommendation, and presented it.
- Well-Architected Delivery:



Experience running reviews to a standard and turning findings into a roadmap a customer will actually fund, rather than a report they file.
- Pre-Sales Experience: Comfortable in commercial conversations — scoping, estimating, and articulating technical value to prospective clients.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform in production, including reviewing other people's modules.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written English, able to flex between a deep technical discussion and an executive-level summary, and to write reports a customer will circulate internally.
- Certifications: A professional-level certification on Azure or AWS, ideally Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, plus at least associate level on the other. If you're missing one, we fund and schedule the time to close it in your first year.

Nice to Haves

- Azure Landing Zones, Entra ID, or Microsoft public sector frameworks.
- Google Cloud Platform, or Cloudflare across DNS, WAF, CDN, and Zero Trust.
- FinOps practice, observability engineering, or Kubernetes.
- Experience mentoring engineers in another country or timezone.
- Experience with both Linux and Windows workloads, and with modernising legacy applications.

Our Values

As part of Trustmarque Ultima Group, we are guided by three core values:

Team | Excellence | Empowerment

These values shape how we work together, support our customers and create opportunities for our people to succeed.

Equal Opportunities

Just After Midnight and Trustmarque Ultima Group are equal opportunities employers. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected, valued and empowered to succeed. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you're an experienced cloud architect who enjoys combining technical expertise with customer engagement, strategic thinking and hands-on problem-solving, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future of cloud services with Just After Midnight.

📌 Senior Solutions Architect (Sydney)
🏢 Ultima
📍 Sydney