Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity for an experiencedIT Infrastructure leader who combines deep hands-on technical expertise with strong people leadershipto take ownership of a large, complex and business-critical technology environment.
AsPlatform 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 of10+ Technical Engineersand 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:
Approximately1,250 sitesacross Energy, Commercial and Retail
Around800 applications
5 datacentresacross Melbourne, Geelong and Adelaide
Approximately120 Azure and AWS landing zones
Around2,800 physical and virtual serversacross remote sites and datacentres
Around15,000 employee identitiesacross 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 of10+ 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 robust 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 environment
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📌 Platform Lead - It Infrastructure (Melbourne)
🏢 Viva Energy Group
📍 Melbourne