On-Premises and Cloud Architect

JD: On-Premises and Cloud Architect
Experience: 10 yrs
Location: Melbourne VIC
Role Type: Permanant

Role Purpose

The On-Premises and Cloud Architect will design govern and guide enterprise infrastructure solutions across on-premises datacenter private cloud public cloud and hybrid cloud environments. The role is accountable for architecture technical design migration strategy security alignment operational readiness and delivery assurance across infrastructure modernization and transformation programs.

Responsibilities & Requirements

• Define and own hybrid infrastructure architecture across on-premises datacenter private cloud Azure AWS networking storage compute virtualization identity backup and security domains.
• Design scalable secure resilient and cost-effective infrastructure solutions aligned to business requirements enterprise architecture principles and technology standards.
• Assess current-state infrastructure landscapes and develop target-state architecture migration roadmaps solution blueprints and implementation approaches.
• Lead technical design discussions architecture workshops solution reviews and design governance forums with business technology security vendor and project stakeholders.
• Develop high-level and low-level design documents architecture diagrams migration plans bill of materials technical assumptions dependencies and implementation guidelines.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud migration datacenter modernization server refresh virtualization storage backup workplace and network transformation initiatives.
• Guide engineering teams during build configuration testing cutover hypercare and transition-to-operations phases.
• Ensure alignment with security compliance availability business continuity disaster recovery monitoring observability performance and operational support requirements.
• Support infrastructure automation Infrastructure as Code CI/CD enablement configuration standardization and reusable architecture patterns where applicable.
• Review and validate technical deliverables change plans implementation runbooks test cases operational procedures and production readiness criteria.
• Identify technical risks design gaps architecture constraints and delivery dependencies while recommending practical mitigation options.
• Collaborate with vendors and OEM partners for solution validation product selection sizing licensing inputs and technical escalation support.

Qualifications

• Strong experience architecting and delivering enterprise infrastructure solutions across both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of datacenter technologies including compute storage virtualization backup disaster recovery monitoring and network infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and/or AWS including compute storage networking identity security governance and cost optimization.
• Experience designing hybrid cloud connectivity landing zones identity integration network segmentation workload migration and operational management models.
• Good understanding of infrastructure security compliance controls vulnerability management patching privileged access encryption and resilience requirements.
• Experience preparing architecture documents technical designs standards patterns migration strategies and implementation guidance for enterprise-scale projects.
• Ability to translate business and application requirements into practical infrastructure architecture and delivery-ready designs.
• Strong stakeholder management consulting communication presentation and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working with project delivery teams managed services teams vendors and offshore or distributed engineering teams.
• Relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect AWS Solutions Architect VMware Cisco Microsoft ITIL TOGAF or equivalent are desirable.

Preferred Experience

• Datacenter migration consolidation modernization or exit programs.
• Azure or AWS cloud migration and hybrid cloud transformation projects.
• Design of Azure landing zones network hub-spoke models identity integration governance and security controls.
• Virtualization platforms such as VMware Hyper-V or equivalent private cloud technologies.
• Enterprise storage backup disaster recovery replication monitoring and observability solutions.
• Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform ARM/Bicep CloudFormation Ansible or similar automation frameworks.
• Microsoft 365 endpoint management server modernization and workplace transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting proposal responses solution estimates technical assumptions and architecture presentations for customers.

Key Competencies

1. Hybrid Cloud Architecture
2. On-Premises Infrastructure Design
3. Cloud Migration Strategy
4. Security & Compliance Alignment
5. Architecture Governance
6. Technical Leadership
7. Stakeholder Communication
8. Solution Documentation
9. Operational Readiness
10. Cost & Performance Optimization