Job Description
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This role offers the opportunity to influence technology across a significant enterprise setting, including:
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Approximately
1,250 sites
across Energy, Commercial and Retail
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Around
800 applications
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5 datacentres
across Melbourne, Geelong and Adelaide
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Approximately
120 Azure and AWS landing zones
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Around
2,800 physical and virtual servers
across remote sites and datacentres
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Around
15,000 employee identities
across Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID
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Responsibilities & Requirements n
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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.
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Server & Hosting Platforms:




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