Our client is seeking an experienced technology leader to keep the platforms its health insurance customers rely on secure, stable and reliable. This role brings together cloud and infrastructure operations, day-to-day security operations and the technology our cleint staff use to do their work.

Reporting to the Head of Operations, you’ll lead the Platform Operations Lead and Security Operations Lead. You’ll guide the teams, help resolve complex incidents and improve how live services are monitored, supported and recovered.

What you’ll be doing

• Oversee Azure, hosting, networks, virtual machines, platforms and databases that support live customer services.
• Lead incident response and escalations, bringing technical expertise when it helps the team diagnose issues quickly.
• Manage security monitoring, vulnerability management, patching and operational security controls.
• Own backups, business continuity and disaster recovery testing.
• Improve monitoring and automate routine work to make services more reliable and efficient.
• Oversee internal business applications, staff devices, identity and workplace technology.
• Develop your team’s capability and work with delivery teams to ensure new services are ready for ongoing support.

Minimum requirements

• At least seven years’ experience in infrastructure, hosting or cloud operations, including three years in a leadership role.
• Experience running hosted or cloud services for external customers.
• Deep technical knowledge of Azure and enterprise networking.
• Experience in security monitoring, vulnerability management and patching.
• Experience with backups, business continuity and disaster recovery testing.
• Experience in capacity management, cloud cost management, and monitoring and observability tools.
• A relevant IT, engineering or related qualification, or equivalent experience supported by professional development.

What you’ll bring

You’ll have at least seven years’ experience in infrastructure, hosting or cloud operations, including three years in a leadership role. You’ll have run hosted or cloud services for external customers and bring deep knowledge of Azure and enterprise networking.

You’ll also have practical experience across security operations, disaster recovery, monitoring, capacity management and cloud costs. You’re calm during incidents, comfortable making decisions and committed to sharing your technical knowledge with your team.

Experience in insurance or private health insurance would be an advantage.

• Contract until 30 June 2027, with possible extension

• Senior hands-on Splunk Cloud engineering role

• Sydney Olympic Park | Predominantly onsite

The opportunity

A large, complex organisation is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer with deep hands-on Splunk expertise. You will support and improve an enterprise Splunk Cloud environment covering approximately 30,000 devices.

This role combines platform architecture, engineering, implementation and BAU support. You will work alongside cybersecurity architects on major programs while mentoring engineers and strengthening the organisation’s internal Splunk capability.

Key responsibilities

• Design and improve the Splunk Cloud architecture.

• Deliver hands-on Splunk engineering and implementation.

• Onboard and integrate new log sources and security technologies.

• Configure parsing, indexing, data models, dashboards and alerts.

• Develop and tune Splunk ES correlation searches and detection use cases.

• Monitor platform health, performance, data quality and ingestion.

• Translate architectural designs into working technical solutions.

• Support BAU activities, incidents and major cybersecurity programs.

• Identify opportunities to improve platform capability and efficiency.

• Mentor and upskill approximately five to six engineers.

Skills and experience

• Extensive hands-on experience with Splunk at senior engineering, design or architecture level.

• Strong experience with Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise Security.

• Demonstrated capability across platform architecture, configuration, administration and implementation.

• Experience with log onboarding, forwarders, indexes, source types, parsing and data models.

• Strong SPL skills, including dashboards, alerts, correlation searches and detection use cases.

• Experience managing enterprise-scale SIEM platforms and large data volumes.

• Ability to troubleshoot performance, integration and data-quality issues.

• Strong communication skills and experience mentoring technical teams.

• Ability to work independently across BAU activities and complex programs.

Broader engineering experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable:

• Cloud security

• DevSecOps and security automation

• Network security

• Endpoint or end-device security

• Cybersecurity engineering and architecture

Technical Delivery Lead

Contract Opportunity

Sydney CBD | 4 days on-site |

The Opportunity

This is a rare opportunity to become one of the first key hires in Australia for a highly regarded global technology consultancy as they establish and grow their local presence.

The business has been built by technology leaders whose experience spans high-growth startups through to Fortune 50 organisations. They’ve taken that collective experience and created a different kind of consultancy – one centred around deep technical expertise, integrity, transparency and long-term client partnerships.

You’ll join at an exciting stage of their Australian growth, initially taking a lead role on a high-profile PropTech engagement in Sydney. You’ll act as the local technical and delivery leader, working directly with senior client stakeholders while coordinating with global engineering teams.

This isn’t a traditional delivery role. You’ll combine technical leadership, architecture, stakeholder engagement and delivery ownership, with the opportunity to have a genuine influence on the company’s future in Australia.

What You’ll Do

• Own technical delivery and become a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders.
• Lead and influence engineering teams across Australia and globally.
• Provide technical direction across TypeScript, Node.js, GCP and modern cloud architectures.
• Translate business priorities into pragmatic technical solutions and delivery plans.
• Guide architecture and engineering decisions, review solutions and challenge technical assumptions.
• Identify risks and dependencies early and drive projects through to successful outcomes.
• Help establish the organisation’s reputation and presence in the Australian market.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll be an experienced Technical Lead, Engineering Lead or Technical Delivery Lead who can comfortably move between an executive conversation and a technical design discussion.

You’ll bring:

• Strong TypeScript and Node.js experience.
• Experience with GCP or another major cloud platform.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices and distributed/cloud-native systems.
• Experience leading complex software delivery across distributed engineering teams.
• Confidence engaging with C-level, VP and senior technology stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to build trusted client relationships.
• A hands-on technical background with the credibility to guide engineers and influence architecture.

Experience in PropTech, real estate technology, consulting or professional services would be highly regarded.

Why Consider It?

The real attraction here is the timing. You’re joining an established global business at the beginning of its Australian journey.

You’ll have the opportunity to become one of its foundational technical leaders locally, work alongside an experienced global leadership team, take ownership of a significant enterprise engagement and potentially play a much broader role as the Australian business grows.

AI Governance Analyst

We’re looking for an experienced AI Governance Analyst to join a Government organisation and support a key program of work across AI governance, assurance and governance uplift.

A major focus will be coordinating AI assessments and governance activities aligned with Government AI requirements, alongside progressing priority audit, assurance and compliance actions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coordinate AI governance activities and AI assessments in line with Government requirements.
• Support and progress the organisation’s AI governance work program.
• Maintain AI governance registers, ensuring quality, accuracy and appropriate escalation of high-risk or overdue matters.
• Progress priority actions arising from internal audits, assurance activities and policy commitments.
• Support implementation and uplift of the AI governance operating model, including ownership, decision rights, lifecycle controls and escalation pathways.
• Develop and improve governance processes and artefacts supporting scalable AI adoption.
• Support governance activities relating to Copilot, AI agents and emerging AI use cases.

About You

You’ll be an experienced governance, risk or assurance professional who understands AI governance within the NSW Government environment and can work autonomously with minimal direction.

To be considered, you will need:

• Previous NSW Government experience – essential.
• Experience with the NSW Government AI Assessment Framework (AIAF) and AI assessments – essential.
• Strong experience across AI governance, risk, assurance and compliance.
• Experience implementing or working with governance frameworks, policies, controls and compliance requirements.
• Experience coordinating governance assessments, reviews and assurance activities across multiple stakeholders.
• Understanding of AI lifecycle governance, including ownership, decision rights, controls and escalation pathways.
• Experience maintaining governance registers, tracking actions and progressing audit or assurance findings.
• Strong written communication skills, including executive reporting, governance papers, briefings and audit evidence.

This is a great opportunity for someone with genuine NSW Government AI governance experience to contribute to a high-priority program of work and help strengthen the governance and responsible adoption of AI.

Talent is recruiting for our leading financial services client, seeking an Executive Manager, Financial Crime.

Bringing deep financial crime expertise and institutional banking experience, you will challenge established approaches, strengthen assessment methodologies and drive more insightful, data-informed outcomes.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Enhance financial crime risk assessment methodologies, standards, guidance and governance frameworks
• Drive strategic uplift initiatives supporting evolving money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing risk assessment requirements
• Apply institutional banking expertise to improve assessments across complex products, customers and business activities
• Partner with Financial Crime, Risk, Legal, Technology and business stakeholders to strengthen assessment quality and consistency

To be successful in this role:

• Significant financial crime experience within banking, with institutional or wholesale banking experience essential
• Strong Line 2 experience providing financial crime advice, oversight and effective challenge
• Demonstrated experience developing or enhancing financial crime risk assessment methodologies and frameworks
• A strong understanding of inherent risk, control effectiveness and residual risk assessment
• Experience supporting regulatory change, financial crime transformation or strategic capability uplift

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply now. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@talentinternational.com

SQL Database Administrator (DBA) – NV1 Clearance

We are seeking an experienced SQL Database Administrator (DBA) to support and maintain secure enterprise database environments.

This role will suit a hands-on DBA with strong Microsoft SQL Server experience who is comfortable working within complex ICT environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain and support Microsoft SQL Server databases
• Monitor database performance, availability and capacity
• Undertake database backups, restores, patching and upgrades
• Troubleshoot database incidents and performance issues
• Support database security, access controls and compliance requirements
• Assist with database migrations, deployments and environment improvements
• Work closely with infrastructure, application and development teams

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as a SQL Server DBA
• Experience with SQL Server administration, monitoring and performance tuning
• Strong knowledge of backup, recovery and high-availability solutions
• Experience troubleshooting complex database issues
• Understanding of database security and access management
• Experience working within enterprise or government ICT environments will be highly regarded

Mandatory Requirement

• Current Australian Government NV1 Security Clearance

Apply

If you are an experienced SQL DBA with an active NV1 clearance and are interested in hearing more about the opportunity, please apply with an updated CV.

Infrastructure Analyst – Windows & Linux

Australian Citizen – NV1 Security Clearance

Location: Melbourne

Contract 12 months + Extensions

Federal Government project

Job Description

We are seeking an Infrastructure Analyst with Windows & Linux to support the day-to-day operations of enterprise server infrastructure environments.

The role focuses on system monitoring, operational support, and routine administrative activities for Windows and Linux systems. The analyst will work closely with senior engineers to maintain system stability, perform maintenance tasks, and support enterprise infrastructure services.

The ideal candidate will have foundational knowledge of server operating systems, infrastructure monitoring, and IT operations processes, with a strong focus on troubleshooting and operational support.

What You’ll Do:

• Support daily operations for Windows and Linux servers, including provisioning, configuration, patching, and system maintenance
• Collaborate with senior engineers to troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and resolve incidents within defined SLAs
• Manage patching and security updates in line with organizational policies
• Monitor system health using enterprise tools, analyze logs and metrics, and implement performance improvements
• Contribute to automation initiatives by developing scripts with PowerShell, Bash, or Python to streamline processes
• Work closely with cross-disciplinary teams, providing technical guidance and maintaining comprehensive documentation

Required Skills:

• Proven experience with Windows Server and Linux OS administration
• Familiarity with enterprise infrastructure support, including virtualized platforms like VMware or Hyper-V
• Understanding of patch management, security best practices, and compliance standards
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and logging tools
• Basic networking knowledge, including DNS, DHCP, and TCP/IP fundamentals
• Experience working with ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow or Jira

Nice to Have Skills:

• Cloud platform experience such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or Bash
• Knowledge of automation or configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform
• Understanding of DevOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation

Requirements:

• NV1 Security Clearance
• Melbourne Location

• Two Leadership Opportunities – Product Operations & Product Delivery
• Full Time Permanent Role
• Adelaide Based Position

Two exciting technology leadership opportunities spanning product operations and product/platform delivery. Lead high-performing teams, improve live product performance, drive reliable releases and deliver technology roadmaps across modern cloud and customer-facing environments.

Product Operations Manager

This role is focused on keeping customer-facing products supported, stable and performing in live environments.

You will lead the operational side of the product lifecycle, with responsibility for second and third-line product support, production performance, incident and problem management, release deployment and operational readiness. A key part of the role is ensuring lessons from production are fed back into delivery teams to improve product supportability and reduce recurring issues.

We are looking for someone with strong experience across technology operations, application/product support, IT service management and production environments, ideally including:

• 7+ years’ experience in product support or technology operations, including 3+ years in leadership
• Second and third-line support for customer-facing products
• Incident, problem and service management
• Major incident management and production support
• Release deployment and operational readiness
• Cloud and low-code environments such as Azure and OutSystems
• Experience influencing delivery teams to improve product supportability

ITIL or equivalent service management certification would be advantageous.

Product & Platform Delivery Manager

This role is focused on leading the teams that build, run and continuously improve key customer products and platforms.

You will own delivery across multiple product and platform teams, managing roadmap execution, delivery capacity, resourcing, integrated backlogs, dependencies and release cycles. The role requires someone who can create predictable delivery across competing priorities while maintaining clear accountability for milestones, risks and delivery outcomes.

We are looking for someone with strong experience across software delivery, product/platform delivery and technology leadership, ideally including:

• 7+ years’ software delivery management experience, including 3+ years in leadership
• Leadership of multiple delivery or product teams
• Delivery against shared product/platform roadmaps
• Capacity planning and resourcing across competing priorities
• Integrated backlog, dependency and milestone management
• Ownership of release cycles within live customer environments
• Cloud and low-code platforms such as Azure and OutSystems
• Teams responsible for both build and run activities

Agile or project management certification would be advantageous.

Apply now or reach out to Ivan Aureus at 0480 806 152 for a chat.

Business Analytics Practice Lead

We’re seeking an experienced Business Analytics Practice Lead to lead and develop a high-performing Business Analysis function. This is a senior leadership opportunity combining technical BA expertise, people leadership and stakeholder management.

About the Role

You’ll lead a team of Business Analysts while driving BA standards, best practice and capability across the organisation. A key focus will be translating complex business and stakeholder needs into clear, testable requirements that software development teams can effectively deliver.

Working closely with customers, Product and Technology & Delivery teams, you’ll bridge the gap between business requirements and technical delivery, helping shape effective software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Business Analysts.
• Own and improve BA standards, methodologies and quality practices.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable requirements for development teams.
• Partner with customers and stakeholders to understand needs and facilitate solution discussions.
• Develop business requirements, user stories and supporting documentation.
• Provide expert BA guidance across projects and complex analysis activities.
• Support backlog management, prioritisation and delivery planning.
• Build strong relationships across Product, Technology & Delivery teams.
• Foster a collaborative, customer-focused and high-performing team culture.

About You

You’ll bring proven experience leading and mentoring a team of Business Analysts, alongside strong experience across the software development lifecycle.

You will ideally have:

• Extensive experience in Business Analysis, requirements gathering and process mapping.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of BA methodologies and best practice.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience working within Agile development environments is desirable.
• Relevant IT, Computer Science or equivalent experience.

If you’re a technically strong BA leader who enjoys developing people, solving complex problems and connecting stakeholders with delivery teams, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact.

Reach out directly to Zahrah Wood at 0480 804 546 or message via LinkedIn

Infrastructure Analyst – Windows & Linux

Australian Citizen – NV1 Security Clearance

Location: Melbourne

Contract 12 months + Extensions

Federal Government project

Job Description

We are seeking an Infrastructure Analyst with Windows & Linux to support the day-to-day operations of enterprise server infrastructure environments.

The role focuses on system monitoring, operational support, and routine administrative activities for Windows and Linux systems. The analyst will work closely with senior engineers to maintain system stability, perform maintenance tasks, and support enterprise infrastructure services.

The ideal candidate will have foundational knowledge of server operating systems, infrastructure monitoring, and IT operations processes, with a strong focus on troubleshooting and operational support.

What You’ll Do:

• Support daily operations for Windows and Linux servers, including provisioning, configuration, patching, and system maintenance
• Collaborate with senior engineers to troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and resolve incidents within defined SLAs
• Manage patching and security updates in line with organizational policies
• Monitor system health using enterprise tools, analyze logs and metrics, and implement performance improvements
• Contribute to automation initiatives by developing scripts with PowerShell, Bash, or Python to streamline processes
• Work closely with cross-disciplinary teams, providing technical guidance and maintaining comprehensive documentation

Required Skills:

• Proven experience with Windows Server and Linux OS administration
• Familiarity with enterprise infrastructure support, including virtualized platforms like VMware or Hyper-V
• Understanding of patch management, security best practices, and compliance standards
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and logging tools
• Basic networking knowledge, including DNS, DHCP, and TCP/IP fundamentals
• Experience working with ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow or Jira

Nice to Have Skills:

• Cloud platform experience such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or Bash
• Knowledge of automation or configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform
• Understanding of DevOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation

Requirements:

• NV1 Security Clearance
• Melbourne Location

ICT Project Manager

EL1 Equivalent | Applicants should only apply if they currently hold Baseline Clearance or above.

While this opportunity is for a current project requirement, we are also encouraging suitably experienced candidates with AGSVA clearances to apply, as we expect additional Federal Government ICT opportunities to become available across upcoming programs.

The successful candidate will work within a large and complex technology environment supporting enterprise ICT, specialised platforms and digitally enabled business initiatives.

You will manage multiple concurrent projects across strategic data, digital, information technology and platform programs, working closely with technical teams, business stakeholders and delivery partners to achieve agreed outcomes.

The Opportunity

Project Managers will contribute to initiatives spanning major strategic technology programs, including:

• Data and digital capability uplift.
• Enterprise technology and platform modernisation.
• Governance and ways-of-working improvements.
• Infrastructure and systems delivery.
• Organisational transformation initiatives.

This is a highly collaborative delivery environment where Project Managers will generally be responsible for three or more concurrent ICT projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple complex ICT projects simultaneously.
• Apply delivery methodologies appropriate to each project, including Agile and Kanban.
• Deliver projects within agreed scope, budget, schedule and quality expectations.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues and dependencies.
• Escalate matters that may affect successful delivery.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams.
• Facilitate the development, review and stakeholder acceptance of project documentation and deliverables.
• Work closely with software developers, business analysts, test analysts, business representatives and technical specialists.
• Support and empower project teams to work collaboratively and effectively.
• Lead change management activities associated with project delivery.
• Manage the transition of new products and services into business-as-usual operations.
• Build productive relationships with internal stakeholders, clients and suppliers.
• Work effectively across geographically dispersed teams.
• Use project management and collaboration tools including Microsoft Project, Jira and Microsoft Office.

About You

• A minimum of three years’ ICT project management experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
• A strong record of delivering projects to agreed scope, budget and schedule.
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations across complex delivery environments.
• Strong project risk and issue management capability.
• Sound judgement when identifying and resolving project delivery challenges.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams.
• The ability to operate effectively with geographically dispersed stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Confidence working independently while operating within broader program governance.

Delivery Environment

The successful candidate may work across teams including:

• Software development.
• Business analysis.
• Testing and quality assurance.
• Enterprise technology.
• Digital delivery.
• Business stakeholders.
• External suppliers and delivery partners.

Experience delivering projects within large, complex or highly governed organisations will be particularly valuable.

Application Requirement

If successful through screening, candidates will be required to provide a one-page pitch of up to 5,000 characters addressing all five essential criteria.

The pitch should clearly demonstrate experience across:

• ICT project management.
• Managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Delivery against scope, budget and schedule.
• Stakeholder communication and collaboration.
• Multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams.
• Project problem-solving and sound delivery judgement.

Apply

If you meet the selection criteria and would like to find out more about this opportunity, please click “APPLY NOW” and submit your CV in Word format.

For further information, please contact Huma on +61 8 6212 5523. or Huma.irshad@talentinternational.com

To view all current opportunities with Talent International, please visit www.talentinternational.com.au.

• Build and automate Azure cloud environments backed by strong software engineering capability
• Initial contract through to Oct 2027
• Baseline clearance highly preferred | Open to Australian Citizens with ability to obtain

Join a multidisciplinary delivery team working across enterprise Azure cloud environments, application services and the integration of cloud and on-premises technologies.

This role sits at the intersection of cloud engineering and software development. We’re looking for someone whose current strengths are on the Azure cloud side, but who brings a strong development foundation and is comfortable working with code, APIs, automation and modern software delivery practices.

The Role

Working within a specialist delivery team, you’ll contribute to the development, automation and ongoing improvement of enterprise cloud environments and the applications that operate across them.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Engineering and supporting solutions across Microsoft Azure and integrated on-premises environments
• Using software development skills across .NET, C#, SQL and REST APIs
• Contributing to cloud provisioning, automation and Infrastructure as Code
• Building and improving CI/CD and Azure DevOps pipeline automation
• Working collaboratively within an Agile delivery team across development, testing, integration and technical documentation

About You

We’re particularly interested in:

• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure cloud engineering experience within enterprise environments
• A software engineering or development background, with capability across .NET, C#, SQL or other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience provisioning and managing cloud technologies and infrastructure
• Experience with REST APIs and integration between cloud and on-premises systems
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, source control and modern software delivery practices
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Experience working within fast-paced Agile delivery environments
• Exposure to Azure DevOps pipeline automation, Azure Data environments, PowerShell/Bash, automated testing and JavaScript/TypeScript would be highly regarded

Why Consider the Opportunity?

This is a good opportunity for a Cloud Engineer who wants to remain hands-on across Azure while making use of a broader software engineering background.

Rather than sitting purely within infrastructure or application development, you’ll work across cloud environments, automation, APIs and software delivery, with the opportunity to contribute across the broader engineering lifecycle.

Interested?

Click APPLY to send through your resume. If your experience aligns, I’ll be in touch to talk you through the opportunity, provide further context on the role and working environment, and discuss the submission process and next steps.

For a confidential discussion, contact Jaela Smith at Talent International on 0480 806 146 or jaela.smith@talentinternational.com.