Infrastructure and Platforms Lead

  • Australia
  • Adelaide
  • Contract
  • Negotiable
  • Infrastructure and Platforms Lead
  • 12 months fixed term role
  • Adelaide Based Position

The Infrastructure & Platforms Lead combines hands-on technical expertise with team leadership to design, build and maintain the core platforms that support software products. The role focuses on ensuring reliable, secure and scalable cloud and on-premises infrastructure while leading engineers, driving platform strategy, and collaborating with engineering, architecture and security teams to deliver high-performing production environments.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 4 years experience in a similar role.
  • Previous people leadership experience
  • Proven expertise in IT technologies, including but not limited to Windows Server, VMware, SQL Server, and IaaS-based cloud services.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools and exposure to DevOps methodologies (desirable).
  • Experience with scripting and automation.
  • Strong customer service orientation with a commitment to delivering high-quality support.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
  • High-level communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
  • Enjoy improving systems, strengthening processes, and creating structure

Responsibilities:

  • Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues
  • Lead by example demonstrating strong organisation, structure, and attention to detail.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and operation across environments.
  • Monitor infrastructure performance, health and availability across network, compute, storage and platform services, investigating and resolving operational issues.
  • Monitor infrastructure capacity and utilisation, identifying trends and implementing proactive capacity planning to ensure performance, scalability and availability.
  • Implement and managing network security measures, including access control, authentication, encryption and intrusion detection/prevention.
  • Develop organisational capabilities, processes and procedures for automation and continuous integration of build, packaging, testing, security and deployment.
  • Ensure compatibility and integration between different infrastructure components.
  • Ensure infrastructure and platform services meet defined reliability, availability and performance objectives.
  • Contribute to the evolution of the organisation’s infrastructure and platform architecture to support scalability, security and operational efficiency.
  • Lead the Infrastructure and Platforms Team, allocating responsibilities as appropriate.
  • Significantly contribute to the growth of a professional, collaborative customer-focused culture aligned to values.
  • Champion teamwork, reuse and knowledge sharing across the organisation.
  • Coaching and mentoring of staff particularly, relating to Infrastructure and Platforms function.
  • Manage team performance ensuring clear expectations are set and appropriate performance and development plans are agreed and actioned.

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