A leading Australian Financial Services provider is seeking a Cloud Architect with strong GCP engineering experience to join their Infrastructure Architecture team on an initial six-month contract (with strong extension potential). Working across multiple business units and locations, you’ll design target-state cloud architecture and establish new foundational reference architectures, lead technical workshops, and guide engineering teams on GCP best practices. This is a hands-on role requiring both strategic architecture thinking and practical cloud engineering expertise. Key Responsibilities: Design high-level GCP architectures aligned to enterprise guardrails and security standards Establishing new foundational reference architectures and helping shape GCP cloud architecture, landing zones and implementing best practice Contribute to architecture decisions, costing and project estimates Facilitate technical workshops with stakeholders across the business Provide technical leadership to engineering teams Essential Requirements: Tertiary qualifications combined with GCP certification (AWS will also be considered) Proven Cloud Architect experience in large, complex environments (Financial Services highly regarded) Strong hands-on GCP engineering background (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, networking) Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Ability to influence technical decisions at senior levels What’s on Offer: Competitive daily rate Hybrid working: 2-3 days in office, remainder WFH High likelihood of extension Interested? If so apply now to be considered!
