Senior Platform Engineer

• More time off for the things that matter - Up to 6 weeks' leave
  
• Work where we work best - Hybrid office/work-from-home environment
  
• Utilise your understanding of Active Directory and Azure AD Identity models to provide recommendations tailored to business requirements
  
• Showcase your experience with essential infrastructure components such as DNS, DHCP, AD (Active Directory), GPO (Group Policy Objects), and Windows Server environments
  

The Senior Platform Engineer plays a pivotal role in technology leadership in maintaining the platforms that support our organisation's software and hardware cloud and infrastructure needs. The role requires a blend of deep technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure the organisation's platform infrastructure supports its current and future needs effectively as it shifts workloads and end-user modality to the cloud.

Hands-on technical outcomes are paramount in shaping our organisation's technical infrastructure and is pivotal for navigating the complexities of evolving technology landscapes and business needs.

About the role

People Leadership:

• Act as a mentor to junior engineers, sharing knowledge, providing guidance, and promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Provide ongoing coaching and promote development
• Engage in recruitment processes as appropriate from time to time
• Ensure compliance with appropriate governance and coordination activities (i.e. technology governance, release coordination, end-user communications, reporting, optimising licensing and entitlements)

Operational Excellence:

• Continuous Infrastructure Optimization: Evaluate and refine cloud infrastructure to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability. Implement automation to streamline operations
• Incident Management: Lead a responsive incident management process, ensuring quick resolution of operational issues to maintain service stability and uptime
• Performance Monitoring: Establish effective monitoring protocols to proactively detect and resolve issues, guaranteeing optimal performance of cloud services
• Patch Management: Develop and maintain a rigorous patch management practices to ensure cloud services are up to date, minimizing exposure to vulnerabilities
• Operational Uptime: Implement strategies to achieve and maintain high operational uptime, ensuring cloud services are reliable and consistently available to users
• Proactive Risk Assessment: Regularly conduct risk assessments to identify potential operational vulnerabilities, developing strategies to mitigate identified risks
• Disaster Recovery Planning: implement robust disaster recovery runbooks, ensuring business continuity in the event of service disruptions

Financial:

• Contribute towards budgeting for cloud & infrastructure operations and project needs as required, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and cost-effectiveness prioritisation and selection of technology
  

About you

• Minimum of five years of experience in IT roles with a minimum two years' experience in a similar role
• At least 5 years of prior experience working with Microsoft 365, encompassing Teams, Exchange Online, Office 365
• Extensive experience in Entra ID (Azure AD) and Entra ID Governance
• Strong command of PowerShell, capable of scripting to simplify administrative and deployment tasks
• Familiarity with PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and certificate management.
• Fundamental grasp of enterprise network architectures and security principles
• Experience in cloud adoption, standardisation of cloud services, automation of infrastructure, modern operating models
• People leadership/influencing experience in a technology team
• Experience in working in a multi-vendor environment would be advantageous
• Cross platform experience of technology across applications, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, storage and backup
• Demonstratable experience analysing identity and access management constructs from all angles to identity and close any potential security gaps
• Excellent attention to detail to ensure information is accurate and current
• Digital Transformation experience
• Exhibit excellent analytical skills, the ability to manage initiatives under strict timelines, as well as the ability to work well in a demanding, dynamic environment and meet overall objectives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and consultative skills, and the ability to communicate concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

Behaviours

Our unique culture is underpinned by our three organisational behaviours, Stretch, Own it, Make an impact.

Employee benefits

• Work from anywhere in Australia for up to one month each year
• An annual allowance to empower you to prioritise your personal wellbeing
• Access to LinkedIn learning, study support and commitment to supporting professional development
• Lend your expertise and support Indigenous organisations to achieve their own development goals with a six weeks' secondment with Jawun

Diversity and inclusion

• WGEA Employer of Choice for gender equality since 2018
• Strong commitment to all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion through a robust 7 pillar strategy
• A growing number of employee-led networks who work to raise awareness and drive continued change
• We support over 50 Indigenous communities through Native Title Trusts, helping to secure the communities future. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diversity is celebrated and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. Our goal is to provide a work environment that enables you to thrive, whatever your circumstances.