Are you a seasoned Infrastructure professional who thrives on complex environments, major transformation projects, and enterprise-scale technologies?

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Administrator to join a large and highly regarded organisation undertaking a significant virtualisation and infrastructure modernisation program. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the migration of hundreds of virtual machines while supporting critical enterprise systems across on-premise and cloud environments.

What You'll Be Doing
As a Senior Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for:

- Leading the migration of approximately 400 virtual machines from VMware ESXi to Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Planning, testing, implementing and validating complex infrastructure changes and migrations.
- Administering and supporting enterprise Windows Server environments.
- Managing and maintaining VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and Veeam Backup & Recovery platforms.
- Supporting infrastructure hosted across on-premises, Microsoft Azure and AWS environments.
- Investigating and resolving complex Level 3 infrastructure incidents and technical issues.
- Managing incidents, problems, changes and releases through ServiceNow.
- Working closely with stakeholders, project teams, application owners and vendors to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
- Providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to operational and project teams.
- Contributing to high availability, disaster recovery, security, monitoring and backup strategies.

About You
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:





- Extensive experience administering enterprise Windows Server environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Proven experience supporting Veeam Backup & Recovery solutions.
- Demonstrated success delivering large-scale infrastructure or VM migration projects.
- Experience working within IT Service Management frameworks and platforms such as ServiceNow.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across server, virtualisation and backup technologies.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- The ability to work effectively across operational teams, projects and external vendors.

Highly Regarded
Experience in any of the following will be advantageous:

- Enterprise-scale VMware to Hyper-V migration projects.
- Microsoft Azure and/or AWS infrastructure environments.
- High availability and disaster recovery platforms.
- Confluence documentation and knowledge management.
- Large, complex enterprise or government ICT environments.

What's on Offer

- 12-month contract chance.
- Brisbane Northside location.
- Hybrid working arrangement (50% office / 50% work from home).
- Opportunity to work on a high-profile infrastructure transformation initiative.
- Collaborative and technically capable team environment.
- Long-term project pipeline and exposure to modern cloud and virtualisation technologies.

If you're looking for a challenging contract where you can make a genuine impact across a large-scale enterprise environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now or contact Whizdom Recruitment for a confidential discussion.

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