Senior Cloud and SAAS Services Architect - NV1 clearance

Description
Client is a Fortune 500 company and prides in servicing 99% of Fortune 500 companies as well as Government Agencies around the world. In Canberra, we run a key business unit - the Government Security Operations Centre (GSOC) that supports a number of Australian Government departments. We are looking for the support of a Cloud Security Architect to assist with a critical Sales opportunity with a key  government customer.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Lead the design of the SAAS services and associated infrastructure to support our SOC services, including service design, integration and costs
• As part of a larger technical response team, provide input into the Cloud and SAAS service design and delivery of a major infrastructure project, including potential technology and hardware refresh, new capability and new services
• Work with stakeholders to ensure solutions are supportable and documented.

Experience/ Skill and Qualification Required
You'll need to have:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Experience in architecting, designing, implementation of Cloud based infrastructure and its solutions that are suitable for the hosting of Australian Government classified information.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP or Azure, including multi-cloud solutions and virtualisation solutions such as VMware and Nutanix
• Evaluating requirements and recommend best fit technical solutions
• Providing solutions for migration and transformation to cloud services
• Extensive knowledge on Cloud based deployment framework and methodology using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Beanstalk including autoscaling and highly available architecture
• Contributes to the Solution Design for large and more complex solutions, ensuring an acceptable cost structure.
• Design for enterprise-wide application architecture landscape including PaaS / SaaS platforms with Implementing & integrating on SaaS / PaaS platforms & RESTful APIs
• DevOps - Infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines knowhow
• Containers and serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, ECS etc)
• IT security tooling
• Baseline and or NV1 clearance - This is a mandatory requirement.

Even better if you have:

• A Bachelor's degree
• Relevant Industry and technology Certifications will be highly desirable
• Experience working with the Department of Defence or Defence Industries
• Strong security background