Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Domain Lead

What you’ll be doing

The Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Domain Lead provides technical leadership, architectural governance, and delivery oversight across Azure platform services, core infrastructure, identity, compute, storage, and migration tooling for a major Australian Federal Government cloud transformation initiative.

The role ensures secure, scalable, policy‑compliant platform foundations aligned with ASD ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight, and agency‑specific accreditation frameworks.

This role requires an NV1 (Negative Vetting Level 1) security clearance due to exposure to sensitive systems, operational workloads, and classified environments.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Architecture

• Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of the Azure landing zone and platform services supporting large‑scale application and infrastructure migration.
• Establish guardrails, patterns, templates, and reusable IaC modules to ensure consistency, compliance, and repeatability.
• Oversee the integration of VMware-based workloads into Azure, including refactoring, rehosting, or hybrid approaches.
• Drive adoption of the Azure Migrate ecosystem, ensuring accurate discovery, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, and workload readiness assessments.

Platform Engineering & Delivery Oversight

• Provide oversight of engineering squads implementing:

• Azure Compute, VMSS, App Services
• Azure Storage, Files, Blobs, structured data services
• Azure AD / Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, PIM
• Monitoring, logging, cost governance, backup & recovery

• Ensure Infrastructure‑as‑Code delivery using:

• Terraform for all platform provisioning
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automation, approvals, security scanning, linting, and release management

• Ensure migration execution is supported by robust platform capability, including hybrid identity integration and operational readiness.
• Maintain platform resilience, scalability, and optimisation across government‑specific constraints.
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Migration Enablement & Tooling Integration

• Own the platform’s enablement of the Azure Migrate toolchain, including servers, applications, and databases.
• Guide cross‑functional teams in interpreting Azure Migrate assessments and shaping migration patterns (rehost, replatform, replace, etc.).
• Coordinate VMware‑based migration activities, working with agency infrastructure teams to align on configuration, compatibility, and cutover readiness.
• Ensure migration tooling integrates with governance, landing zones, and operational requirements.

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Ensure all platform constructs comply with:

• ASD ISM controls, including identity, logging, monitoring, segmentation, and encryption
• PSPF, including protective marking and handling requirements
• Agency accreditation processes, including IRAP and continuous assurance

• Embed security‑by‑design into Terraform modules, pipelines, and platform automation.
• Track platform‑related risks, deviations, and mitigation plan.

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement

• Act as the senior technical interface across stakeholders, vendors, and partner delivery teams.
• Collaborate with:

• Cloud Applications Domain
• Cloud Networking & Security Domain (light engagement only)
• Project Services and Migration Factory teams

• Provide clear technical advice, impact assessments, and options to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Participate in architecture review boards, design forums, and executive‑level technical governance

Working Conditions:

• On-site
• Open to Canberra / Sydney / Melbourn
• Permanent
• Must hold an active AGSVA Security Clearance (NV1 preferred)

What will make you successful in this role?

Technical Requirements: 

• Extensive experience designing and delivering Azure platform and infrastructure services in secure environments.
• Strong experience with:

• VMware infrastructure (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter) and hybrid/cloud migration paths
• Azure Migrate including appliance deployment, dependency mapping, assessments, and wave planning
• Terraform IaC for enterprise-scale Azure provisioning
• GitLab CI/CD for automation, code governance, and secure delivery pipelines

• Solid understanding of Azure identity, compute, storage, resilience, governance, and operations.
• Prior experience leading large-scale cloud migration or modernisation programs.
• Deep familiarity with ASD ISM, Essential Eight, IRAP, PSPF, and security-by-design practices.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and engagement skills.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Microsoft certifications (AZ‑305, AZ‑500, AZ‑104, AZ‑700, etc.).
• Experience with application refactoring and infrastructure modernisation.
• Background in Protected‑level or National Security environments.
• Experience with automation at scale (e.g., GitLab runners, policy-as-code, testing frameworks).

Why is this an exciting opportunity?

Atturra is one of the fastest growing ASX-listed advisory and IT solutions companies in Australia, giving you a strong foundation to fulfil your career ambitions.

We currently have 1100+ professionals working across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong who are using innovation to lead the way.

This is your chance to make an impact. Come and join our talented and creative team of change makers to redefine the future through technology.

Our Cloud Business Solutions team specialises in strategy, migration, and proactive management across large enterprise and small-scale cloud deployments. We use a tailored approach to build scalable cloud solutions that modernise IT environments, enhance productivity, and ensure business continuity.

What our people say:

“We are working towards a very bright future.”

“It's a company with vision and a promising future.”

Why you’ll love working here

Culture of possibility

At Atturra we embrace innovation within our teams, fostering an environment of possibility and growth. We believe in creating a supportive and welcoming culture, where everyone is encouraged to achieve success through collaboration, continuous learning, and smart work practices.

A strong set of company values

Our culture is reflected by our employees who demonstrate camaraderie, innovation, dedication, respect and excellence in everything they do. These traits have become integral to the way we do business and are the values we strive for.

Valuable employee benefits

• Employee benefits, recognition, and wellbeing platform
• Career growth via succession planning, internal promotions, and mentorship opportunities
• Ongoing investment in professional development through industry and technology certifications, and study assistance
• Mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program
• Support for family and caring responsibilities, including paid parental leave
• Employee referral program, with monetary incentives offered 

Commitment to supporting Australia’s veterans 

Atturra is proud to be recognised as a Veteran Friendly Employer by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veteran Employment Commitment (VEC) and is committed to supporting Australia’s veteran community. We aim to enhance the employment experience for veterans by improving recruitment, support, retention, and leadership opportunities to ensure they have a meaningful and impactful career with us.

What our people say:

“Atturra has a great working environment and management are very supportive of their staff. We celebrate success and have fun while working hard.”

How to apply

Careers | Atturra

https://atturra.com/au-en/careers

Recruitment Agencies/Headhunters:

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Atturra is committed to addressing the digital skills gap and advocating for diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of Veteran or service status, gender, LGBTQI+ identity, ethnicity, religion, physical ability, or age.

This document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all responsibilities, key accountabilities, and skills of persons so classified.  Management reserves the right to add or change the job and relevant percentage of accountabilities as required, in its sole discretion.