Cloud Platform Architect

• Employment Type: full time continuing role as a Cloud Platform Architect, UNSW IT
• Excellent salary package available
• Location: Kensington campus in NSW (Hybrid Flexible Working)

About UNSW:

UNSW isn't like other places you've worked. We're a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It's the reason we're one of the top 50 universities in the world and a member of Australia's prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you're in the right place.

This role is platform-centric within Infrastructure & Platform Services and focuses on cloud platforms. Your expertise will be instrumental in enabling our community to leverage cutting-edge cloud solutions effectively, ensuring that our technology initiatives align seamlessly with the university's ambitious goals. The role reports to the Lead Platform Architect and has no direct reports.

What You Will Do:

• Strategic Design, Governance & Planning: Architect scalable, secure cloud solutions that translate enterprise strategy into actionable blueprints, roadmaps, and guiding principles, ensuring alignment through architecture governance.
• Strategic Design, Governance & Planning: Architect scalable, secure cloud solutions that translate enterprise strategy into actionable blueprints, roadmaps, and guiding principles, ensuring alignment through architecture governance.Leadership and Innovation: As a thought leader, you will introduce and advocate for advanced cloud technologies and practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technological excellence.
• Collaboration and Influence: Work closely with diverse stakeholders across the university, including product managers, solution architects, engineers, and senior executives, to ensure that cloud solutions align with the broader institutional objectives.
• Operational Excellence & Compliance: Ensure resilient, observable, and compliant designs that integrate with service processes.
• Innovation & Capability Building: Drive adoption of best practices, sustainable design, and responsible technology, mentoring teams along the way.

Who You Are:

• Educated and Experienced: You possess a tertiary qualification in Computer Technology or a related field, bolstered by extensive experience managing complex projects across large, diverse organisations.
• Expert in Cloud Technologies: Deep understanding of cloud principles with hands-on experience across AWS and Azure Cloud. Skilled in cloud-native architectures, leveraging containers (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless platforms (e.g. Lambda). Strong understanding of emerging AI technologies, including LLMs and agents.
• Experienced in delivering platform services: You use your expertise in core cloud infrastructure (networking, storage, compute) and platform services to shape foundations and guardrails that empower application teams. With a product mindset, you help create a secure, reliable platform that makes it easier to build and operate at scale.
• Security and Performance Savvy: You have a solid background in applying cloud security frameworks (e.g. CIS, CSA or other) and optimising performance, ensuring robust and efficient systems.
• DevSecOps Advocate: Proficient in DevSecOps principles and tools, including IaC platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automated security testing, you seamlessly integrate security with development processes to enhance operational efficiency.
• Proactive and self-driven: Able to manage competing priorities with initiative and focus, delivering results both autonomously and in cross-functional settings.
• Certified Professional: Your expertise is validated by relevant certifications in cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, or other), affirming your technical proficiency.
• Excellent Communicator and Collaborator: Exceptional at conveying complex technical ideas to diverse audiences, you excel in fostering collaboration across functional teams.
• Visionary Thought Leader: Known for your strategic vision in multi-cloud architectures, you have a proven track record of innovative solutions in complex environments.
• Strategic Problem Solver: With strong analytical skills and a knack for strategic decision-making, you adeptly tackle technical challenges and spearhead platform innovation.
• Lifelong Learner: Committed to ongoing professional development, you stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies in cloud infrastructure.
• Business and Technical Synergist: You expertly align technical strategies with business objectives, ensuring that architectural decisions support the overall vision and strategy of the university.
• Values-Driven Leader: You embrace and uphold UNSW's aims, objectives, and values, committed to furthering health and safety standards within your sphere of influence.
• An understanding of and commitment to UNSW's aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.

Benefits and Culture

People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.

Our benefits include:

• Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc)
• Career development opportunities
• 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
• Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)

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How to Apply: please apply through the portal, we would like you to submit a full application including resume and addressing the who you are section.

Applications close:  Monday 10th of November at 11.30pm

Get in touch

Jen MacLachlan, Talent Acquisition – UNSW IT

Please apply through the application portal and not via the contact above.

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff. The University