• Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times. 
• Be part of a team that invests in your growth, offering exclusive industry accreditation and a variety of learning experiences. 
• Thrive in a workplace where we tackle challenges together, solve problems, and celebrate each other’s successes 

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.  

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.  

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.  

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer. 

The Cloud Network Solution Architect is responsible for shaping TAL’s cloud network architecture, standards and technical roadmap, with a focus on cloud modernisation and secure, resilient connectivity across cloud and hybrid environments. The role leads solution design across connectivity, segmentation, routing, DNS, edge security and traffic management, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and cost-effective. Working across architecture, cyber security, identity and delivery teams, the role establishes cloud patterns, supports the transition from legacy infrastructure and ensures solutions meet business, security and regulatory requirements.

In this role you will:

• Cloud Architecture & Design Authority: Own the target-state cloud network architecture, standards, reference patterns and technical roadmap, ensuring solutions align with security, resilience and architectural requirements.
• Cloud Modernisation: Lead the transition from legacy on-premises infrastructure to cloud-native and managed services, designing secure and scalable hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.
• Cloud Migration & Delivery: Define and govern application and infrastructure migrations, including dependency mapping, migration planning, target-state design, cutover, operational readiness and legacy decommissioning.
• Network Architecture & Connectivity: Design cloud and hybrid network solutions across connectivity, segmentation, routing, DNS, private connectivity, shared network services and traffic management.
• Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Design resilient architectures incorporating redundancy, failover, recovery, monitoring and disaster recovery capabilities aligned with business continuity requirements.
• Security, Identity & Data Protection: Embed secure-by-design principles across cloud environments, including network security, access controls, encryption, data protection and automated security guardrails.
• Technology Risk & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure cloud architecture aligns with TAL’s technology risk requirements and relevant standards and regulatory obligations, including APRA CPS 230, CPS 234, Zero Trust, ISO 27001 and the ACSC Essential Eight.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Provide technical direction to engineering and delivery teams, assure partner and vendor solutions, and clearly communicate architecture decisions, risks and trade-offs across technical and senior stakeholder forums.

• Cloud Architecture Experience: 8+ years’ experience across technology architecture, cloud engineering or infrastructure, including significant experience in a cloud architecture or senior solution design role.
• Cloud Platforms & Networking: Strong hands-on expertise across Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, with experience designing cloud networks, landing zones, hybrid connectivity, routing, DNS, segmentation, firewalls and secure platform foundations. Azure experience is highly regarded.
• Cloud Migration & Modernisation: Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale cloud migration, modernisation or data centre exit programs, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Strong knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, monitoring and operational resilience, including designing against recovery and service continuity requirements.
• Cloud Security & Identity: Strong understanding of Zero Trust, identity and access management, network security, encryption, secrets management, security controls and secure cloud architecture.
• Automation & DevOps: Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or Bicep, CI/CD pipelines, policy-as-code, cloud APIs and scripting using PowerShell, Python or similar technologies.
• Architecture Governance, Risk & Standards: Experience establishing architecture standards, patterns and decision records, with knowledge of recognised frameworks and regulatory requirements such as ISO 27001, NIST, ACSC Essential Eight, APRA CPS 230 and CPS 234.
• Stakeholder & Technical Leadership: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to provide technical leadership and translate complex architecture, security, cost and technology risk considerations into clear business outcomes.

We will be upgrading the way you apply for jobs at TAL and therefore our job ads will be temporarily unavailable from 5pm Friday 23rd October until 9am Monday 26 October 2026.  All job application deadlines will be extended to ensure you have ample time to apply.  We look forward to seeing your application.

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:  

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency from 2014 to 2025 and 2023 to 2026 Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index  

• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change  

• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. 

• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals with disability/ies, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community.  

• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you. 

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.   

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.  

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

If you are already a TAL employee please apply via the SmartRecruiters button in Workday and navigate to the Employee Portal. This is important to ensure that your application is recorded accurately.