Principal Platform Engineer

This is a Permanent Full-time position based in Mel.

Who is AEMO?

We are the Australian Energy Market Operator. AEMO’s role is to design and operate a sustainable energy system that provides safe, reliable, and affordable electricity and gas today, and to enable the energy transition for the benefit of all Australians. All Australian governments are now committed to a net-zero economy for Australia by 2050, the first step of which is a net-zero energy system. We are collaborating with the industry and other stakeholders to engineer electricity grids that can handle 100 per cent instantaneous renewable generation by 2025. As the transition to a renewable energy system is occurring at a world-leading pace, it is an exciting & momentous time to be a part of this mission.

About the role

The Platform Services Team maintains, supports and operates AEMO’s high availability Multi-cloud infrastructure. The infrastructure consists of a national data network, AEMO owned private cloud, Public cloud and Cloud Software Services offered by Azure. The role ensures policies align with AEMO’s cyber-security framework to secure the infrastructure. This infrastructure supports AEMO’s real-time data, voice, video and the Energy Market systems essential to run the Australian Energy Markets.

This role requires innovative thought leadership to guide decision making on new technologies and investments in AEMO infrastructure. It also needs to bring a high level of expertise and is responsible for providing strategic guidance on complex BAU and projects issues. This multicloud infrastructure is critical to AEMO delivering highly available services to participants and is essential to ensuring the security of the Energy markets and systems. The challenge is to balance the operational availability demands and deploying projects for new services in an environment that is undergoing rapid industry change. Including rapidly expanding our service offering to move from traditional energy resources to distributed managed renewable resources.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure, services, modernisation and security initiatives
• Ensure that IT Platform systems and infrastructure are monitored and secured against internal and external threats, including risk management and information security. (E.g., Patching and upgrades)
• Maintain and extend in-depth technical knowledge across a broad range of technologies, including Server and security frameworks and best practices, storage and backup technologies and server hardware suppliers.
• Orchestrate, manage, and deliver different platforms. Develop and deliver business aligned technology to a roadmap.
• Effective leadership and mentoring of junior-mid level engineers with Strong Stakeholder management capabilities.
• Requires to be on the On-call roster 24*7 support to respond to incidents after hours (Rotation 1 in 8 weeks)

Position Requirements

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in Server, Storage and Data Protection technologies. E.g. Dell, Pure, Cohesit.
• Strong Infrastructure background (Servers, Storage, Virtualization) with proven experience in DevOps, Ansible, PowerShell.
• Proven experience in Data Centre infrastructure technology environments.
• Hands on technical experience with M365 & Azure
• Strong experience in a Multi-Cloud environment.
• Knowledge of industry best practices such as ITIL, Change Management, Quality Assurance Systems
• Experience working with Security frameworks and SIEM is preferred.
• Knowledge in containerisation, AKS, OpenShift.

Education/ Certifications

• Degree qualifications in Computing and IT, Communications/Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Recognized professional certifications in VMware, Microsoft and server and storage hardware technologies.
• Certifications associated with Cloud services, Azure, AWS or Google

Our Values  

At AEMO, our core values aren’t just ‘words on a wall’ – we are a purpose-based organization at the centre of our energy future, and we stand for our values: Character, Connection & Commitment.

As we continue to innovate and work on some world-first, ground-breaking projects, we need to attract the brightest people and provide opportunities to contribute, stretch and grow. We actively encourage you to bring your whole self to work, so that together we can do better, be better, and love our work. For this reason, inviting difference and leading inclusively is a core part of our culture. We challenge ourselves to take bold actions to improve the experience for all our people, with a current focus on gender, flexibility, (dis)ability and our First Nation peoples.

If you would like to know more about working at AEMO, please check out our careers page for more information, or apply now.