This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced
IT Infrastructure leader who combines deep hands-on technical expertise with strong people leadership
to take ownership of a large, complex and business-critical technology environment.
As
Platform Technical Lead – IT Infrastructure
, you will play a key role in shaping, leading and continuously improving Viva Energy Group's server, hosting and infrastructure platforms across our Energy, Commercial and Retail businesses.
This is not a purely strategic or people-management position. We are looking for a leader who has built their career in infrastructure engineering, understands the technology at a deep level, and can confidently provide technical direction while leading and developing a team of experienced engineers.
Reporting to the Head of IT Infrastructure, you will lead a team of
10+ Technical Engineers
and work closely with architects, application teams, developers, security specialists, technology partners and business stakeholders.
This role offers the opportunity to influence technology across a significant enterprise environment, including:
Approximately
1,250 sites
across Energy, Commercial and Retail
Around
800 applications
5 datacentres
across Melbourne, Geelong and Adelaide
Approximately
120 Azure and AWS landing zones
Around
2,800 physical and virtual servers
across remote sites and datacentres
Around
15,000 employee identities
across Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID
Responsibilities & Requirements
Technical Leadership & Infrastructure Design:
Lead the design of secure, scalable, resilient and high-performing infrastructure solutions across datacentres, remote sites, edge environments and Azure/AWS cloud platforms.
Server & Hosting Platforms:




Provide technical leadership across Windows and Linux operating systems, VMware virtualisation, enterprise compute, storage and hosting technologies.
Implementation & Deployment:
Lead infrastructure implementations, upgrades and deployments, including configuration, troubleshooting, testing and proof-of-concept environments.
Operations & Reliability:
Oversee the availability, reliability and performance of infrastructure supporting a large-scale, 24/7 operating environment.
Team Leadership:
Lead, mentor and develop a team of
10+ Technical Engineers
, providing technical direction while fostering collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
Automation & Optimisation:
Identify opportunities to automate repeatable activities, improve operational efficiency, optimise costs and simplify the infrastructure environment.
Security & Compliance:
Ensure infrastructure platforms meet security, patching, vulnerability remediation, compliance and governance requirements.
Incident Management:
Provide senior technical leadership during complex infrastructure incidents and Level 3 escalations, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
Technology Strategy:
Contribute to Viva Energy Group's infrastructure roadmap across server and hosting, datacentres, edge compute, cloud, automated deployment, resilience, scalability and cost optimisation.
Risk & Resilience:
Identify and mitigate infrastructure risks and contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management:
Build strong relationships with technology vendors, service providers, architects, application teams, security specialists and business stakeholders
Continuous Improvement:
Stay abreast of emerging technologies and identify opportunities to modernise and continuously improve Viva Energy Group's infrastructure setting
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📌 Platform Lead - It Infrastructure (Melbourne)
🏢 Viva Energy Group
📍 Melbourne