Melbourne, inner suburbs | 12-month contract | On-site

About the company

Our client is a substantial Victorian public sector organisation based in inner Melbourne. It is midway through a multi-year technology modernisation program covering cloud adoption, infrastructure resilience, security uplift and operational performance across a hybrid Microsoft setting.

About the role

Reporting to technology leadership, you own day-to-day infrastructure operations while staying technically hands-on across Azure, on-premises and hybrid platforms, networking, identity, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring and managed services. You lead the operational work and the vendors behind it.

Duties
Own daily operations across cloud, servers, storage, network, identity and backup
Lead major incident response, recovery, communications and post-incident improvement
Build, migrate and optimise Azure and hybrid platforms against architecture standards
Drive patching, hardening and vulnerability remediation to Essential Eight and NIST CSF
Manage vendors and managed service providers, and advise senior stakeholders on risk

Skills & experience
Proven operational leadership and service ownership in a complex enterprise environment
Deep hands-on Azure,



Windows Server, virtualisation or HCI, and Microsoft 365 integration
Robust enterprise networking: firewalls, WAF, routing, switching, DNS and segmentation
Backup, disaster recovery and business continuity ownership, including RTO and RPO testing
Current Working with Children Check, National Police Check and Victorian driver licence

Culture

A small, pragmatic technology team that values people who take ownership rather than wait for direction. Decisions are made quickly, technical judgement is respected, and the work is visible across the organisation. You will be the person others escape to. Candidates must be able to work predominantly on-site and participate in agreed after-hours incident response.

Perks
12-month engagement with a confirmed October 2026 start
Lead-level day rate, negotiated on demonstrated experience
Single point of ownership, not a shared support seat
Broad scope across cloud, network, identity, DR and security
Direct access to senior technology decision makers
Inner-Melbourne location with straightforward public transport access
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