About the organisation You’ll be supporting a large Australian organisation operating within a critical-infrastructure and regulated environment. The organisation runs complex, enterprise-scale technology platforms with a strong emphasis on resilience, risk reduction and long-term sustainability. Architecture decisions are taken seriously, with clear governance, executive engagement and a focus on solutions that can be operated and recovered in practice. This is a mature environment where solution architecture directly influences outcomes. What you’ll do As a senior, infrastructure-focused IT Solutions Architect, you’ll provide architecture leadership across several concurrent initiatives. Your focus will be on shaping and governing enterprise infrastructure, backup, recovery and cyber-resilience solutions. You’ll work closely with infrastructure, cyber security, procurement and senior stakeholders to define current and future-state architectures, validate vendor designs, and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, resilience patterns and recovery objectives. You’ll also contribute to service and operating model definition, ensuring architectures transition cleanly into run-state. What you’ll need Strong experience as an infrastructure-focused Solutions Architect in large enterprise environments Proven delivery of enterprise backup and recovery architectures , including cyber-resilient designs Architecture experience with enterprise platforms such as: Veeam Dell PowerProtect / CyberVault-style architectures Commvault HPE or equivalent enterprise backup and storage solutions Experience designing immutable storage , isolated recovery, and ransomware-resistant architectures Solid understanding of RTO/RPO definition and alignment with business recovery requirements Experience supporting hybrid environments (on-prem infrastructure and cloud-based recovery) Strong capability conducting architecture and design reviews of vendor-proposed solutions Experience assessing licensing models, commercial constructs, cost benchmarking and support arrangements Ability to define service definitions, operating models and run-state ownership Comfortable leading requirements workshops and translating business needs into target architectures Strong stakeholder engagement across infrastructure, cyber security, procurement and executive teams Ability to produce clear, executive-ready architecture documentation and decision papers Full Australian working rights (no security clearance required)
