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title: 'Principal Consultant - Cloud Evolution at Cevo Services'
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# Principal Consultant - Cloud Evolution at Cevo Services

- **Company:** Cevo Services
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/cevo-com-au/am9icG9zdDqSToOoMg8wFA_8KRu7Pekd

## Job description

We are looking for a highly motivated hands-on Principal Cloud Evolution Consultant who is driven to deliver the best work to your clients. We want someone who loves the challenges enterprise migration offers. You will have the background in large-scale migration projects, portfolio transformation, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. Experience implementing disaster recovery strategies, backup solutions, and cost optimisation in AWS as well as strong understanding of Agile methodologies and AI-driven Cloud Migration.

What you'll do:

- Own delivery outcomes for client engagements, ensuring scope, timelines, and quality expectations are met
- Provide day‑to‑day leadership to small pods of Senior Consultants, supporting prioritisation, task allocation and delivery best practice
- Act as the primary delivery interface with customers, managing expectations, communicating progress, and mitigating risks
- Deliver high‑quality technical work, contributing hands‑on expertise while guiding others
- Support scoping and estimating with the Growth team, providing input for technically sound and achievable delivery plans
- Ensure alignment between delivery teams, technical standards, and practice guidance
- Contribute to reusable IP and accelerators in collaboration with the Practice Manager and Principal Consultants
- Represent Cevo professionally in customer meetings, workshops, and architecture discussions
- Provide coaching and guidance to Senior Consultants to uplift capability within the practice
- Support continuous improvement through retrospectives, lessons learned, and refinement of delivery approaches

As a Principal Cloud Evolution Consultant you will perform:

- Current State Assessment
- Migration Strategy & Roadmap Development
- Solution Design & Implementation
- Infrastructure & Operations

What you'll bring:

- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, infrastructure design, and migration strategies.
- Deep understanding of AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
- Proficiency in application portfolio assessment and workload prioritisation for migration
- Strong experience with AWS networking
- Familiarity with AWS migration tools such as Migration Hub, Application Migration Service, Database Migration Service (DMS).
- Knowledge of legacy system migration patterns, hybrid connectivity, and data centre exit strategies.
- Solid programming or scripting skills (e.g. Python, bash) for automation and migration tasks. Architecture & Design
- Expertise in designing secure landing zones, multi-account structures, and network architectures following AWS best practices.
- Experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Strong understanding of modernisation patterns including containerisation, serverless adoption, and database decomposition.
- Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks in AWS environments (IAM, KMS, encryption, governance).
- Able to produce reports and presentations for C-level audience Leadership
- Proven ability to lead migration teams, manage complex transformation programs, and engage stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate technical strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences. Tools & Practices
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation, CDK or Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray).
- Exposure to AI-powered engineering tools like Amazon Q Developer or GitHub Copilot for automation.
- Knowledge of AWS AI/ML services (SageMaker, Bedrock) for future-readiness is a plus.
- Experience with developing business cases and understanding of ROI and decision metrics

## Preferred Qualifications

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Advanced Networking certifications.

## About Cevo Services

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cevo is an Australian-owned AWS Premier Consulting Partner that helps organizations design and deliver modern cloud platforms, unlock data for insight, and apply AI where it creates real value.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Profit-funded)
- **Headquarters**: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (with offices in City and Haymarket)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: IT Services and IT Consulting, with deep specialization in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, data intelligence, and AI/agentic systems.
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily mid-market to enterprise organizations across financial services, retail, energy & utilities, independent software vendors (ISVs), government, and education sectors.
- **Mission/purpose statement**: "Turn transformation from a one-off program into a lasting capability to adapt, innovate and deliver better outcomes." The company believes technology, businesses, and careers "should never stand still."

## Products & Services
Cevo organizes its offerings into four core capabilities, delivered as consulting and managed services:

- **AI & Agentic Systems**: Move from pilots to production-ready AI and agentic systems that automate work, support decisions, and integrate safely into everyday operations with security and governance built-in.
- **Data Intelligence**: Build trusted data foundations including strategy, platform, integration, analytics, and governance, enabling dashboards and insights used daily and AI that scales with confidence.
- **Intelligent Modernisation**: Evolve legacy applications and build new digital products using modern architecture, product thinking, and AI-enabled delivery, reducing technical debt and increasing speed, resilience, and security.
- **Cloud Evolution**: Design clear cloud pathways for complex environments, accelerate assessment with AI, and embed secure foundations and automation so performance, cost, and security keep improving long after migration.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately **$8.3 million** (LinkedIn estimate); has partnered with **200+ organizations** across Australia since 2016.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: AWS Premier Tier Consulting Partner (highest tier), with deep specialization in AI, data, and cloud. No external funding rounds are publicly listed; the company appears to be profit-funded/bootstrapped.
- **Growth Signals**: LinkedIn followers grew +11.9% year-over-year to 6,972; actively hiring for senior and principal-level consultant roles across AI, cloud, and data practices. The company is expanding its AI-focused service line ("AI Everywhere" approach).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AWS Premier Partner status**: The highest tier of AWS partnership, signaling deep technical credibility and preferred access to AWS resources, training, and co-selling opportunities.
- **"AI Everywhere" approach**: Cevo embeds AI into every stage of delivery—not just to enhance what they build, but to accelerate how they build (faster discovery, better design, higher-quality delivery, continuous upskilling).
- **Continuous evolution philosophy**: The company’s entire model is built around making modernization a lasting capability, not a one-off project. This differentiates them from traditional consultancies that focus on fixed-scope engagements.
- **Australian-owned, local focus**: Deep understanding of the Australian regulatory and business landscape, particularly in financial services, government, and utilities.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first delivery**: Embedding AI into every stage of consulting delivery, from discovery through to production, as a core differentiator.
- **Building internal capability**: Cevo’s model emphasizes empowering customer teams, not just delivering for them—creating lasting change rather than dependency.
- **Expanding agentic systems**: Moving beyond basic AI pilots into production-ready autonomous systems that can automate complex workflows.
- **People and culture investment**: Heavy focus on learning, development budgets, knowledge sharing (Hive Mind sessions), and creating a community-driven consultancy culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Built on knowledge sharing and collaboration. The company hosts "Hive Mind" sessions for employees to share learnings, and emphasizes open-minded feedback as a "cherished gift." Values include insatiable curiosity, freedom to experiment, and a people-first approach.
- **Work model**: Flexible hybrid working environment that respects work-life balance.
- **Learning & development**: Dedicated learning and development budget, days off per year solely for L&D, unlimited access to a learning platform, and POD leadership programs.
- **Community**: Sponsorship of local tech meetups, regular social events, transparent business updates, and a referral bonus program.
- **Wellbeing**: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health support.
- **Recruitment process**: Described as a two-way conversation—30-minute chat with People & Culture, a 1-hour technical interview with a technical leader, and a face-to-face session with a senior leadership team member.
- **Employer rating**: 4.2/5.0 on LinkedIn (19 reviews), with breakdowns: Work-Life 4.4, Compensation 4.2, Culture 4.1, Career 3.8.
- **Notable perks**: Regular social events, transparent communication, and a strong emphasis on celebrating achievements both internally and externally.

## Sources
1. [Cevo Official Website](https://cevo.com.au/)
2. [Cevo Careers Page](https://cevo.com.au/careers/)
3. [Cevo Work at Cevo Page](https://cevo.com.au/work-at-cevo/)
4. [Cevo About Us Page](https://cevo.com.au/about-us/)
5. [Cevo LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/cevoaustralia)

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