Senior Cloud Architect

Senior Cloud Architect at WSP in Australia

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field. Embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives, enabling you to do the best work of your life. Experience a world of opportunities to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP is one of the world’s top professional services firms, bringing together some of the brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe. We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. We see the world through a Future Ready® lens, fuelled by a shared commitment to making a positive impact—one project and community at a time.

The Opportunity

• Contribute towards defining and maintaining cloud architecture standards and design strategies.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to capture business requirements, translating them into secure, scalable, cost‑efficient cloud solutions.
• Assess current cloud technologies and ensure alignment with business goals and efficiency targets.
• Facilitate smooth transition of Digital/GTM solutions from sandbox or development environments into production, ensuring proper governance, deployment practices, and handoff to operations.
• Lead or guide deployment of complex cloud solutions with hands-on ownership where needed and ensure smooth operational transition.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and managed partners to deliver consistent, standardized cloud services.
• Produce architecture documents, standards, policies, and operational handover materials.
• Participate in governance forums (architecture review, change review).
• Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements and implement them in accordance with existing enterprise automation framework & tooling.
• Interface with operation teams to ensure seamless transition of cloud services into operations.
• Oversee cloud migration projects, including planning, execution, and optimization.
• Review new cloud offerings of interest for organizational alignment.

About You

• Extensive experience with a wide range of Cloud (Azure) services, such as Virtual Machines, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Batch, Container App Environments, etc.
• Strong background in cloud architecture best practices, including high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools, such as Cloud Migrate and database migration services.
• Expertise in Azure architecture, automation (IaC, CI/CD), identity, networking, and security best practices.
• Extensive experience in IaC and automation tooling including, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud init, Azure CLI, Python/Powershell, Git, GitHub Action Workflows, Docker.
• Understanding of general & cloud-specific networking stack.
• Experience in building and implementing Azure Policies.
• Experience integrating cost‑governance (FinOps) considerations into architecture decisions.
• Strong background in producing high‑ and low‑level designs across multi‑vendor cloud ecosystems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• 5–7+ years of hands‑on cloud architecture and design experience in large, distributed enterprise environments.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or experience in a related field.
• Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Architect or a similar role.
• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

We are proud to have the blueprint of Aotearoa New Zealand in our DNA and our 2,000+ expert professionals in 24 offices are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 75,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Architecture
• Azure Services
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Automation (CI/CD)
• Cloud Migration
• FinOps
• Networking
• Security Best Practices
• Kubernetes (AKS)
• Terraform