Technology Environment Manager

BE THE DIFFERENCE
At AIA we don’t simply believe in being ‘the best’. We believe in better – because there’s no limit to how far ‘better’ can take us. Everything we do is driven by our purpose to make a difference by helping people embrace Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. And every one of our people has an important part role to play. If you want to make a difference by helping shape a healthier, better-protected Australia, read on.

The Opportunity:

We are currently undergoing a large technology, data and business transformation program resulting in refreshing the technology blueprint and the introduction of modern ways of working with the aim of crafting a simpler, faster more connected organisation.

Within this we have an opportunity for a Technology Environment Manager to lead the definition, implementation and maintenance of procedures and standards for AIA Australia’s applications environment management. This spans across both cloud and on-premise Technology Environments adopting a best of breed model.

Primarily this role will drive and optimise the provision of our Technology Environments, ensuring reliability and efficiency. A pivotal role in driving technology initiatives, both change and run, and maintaining a robust and scalable Technology Environment to support a high paced, dynamic environment.

This role reports directly into the GM Infrastructure/Cloud, Engineering and Quality and can be based in either Melbourne or Sydney.

The successful candidate will:

• Provide a hands-on technical support in ensuring environments are fully functional and consistent
• Analysing and documenting the current state of various AIA Australia Technology environments
• Leading the identification of appropriate desired environments and associated medium term objectives
• Taking an involved approach to create automation scripts and develop guidelines to ensure environments are replicated correctly
• Supervising the state of the test environments with relevant tools/scripts
• Continually handling the expectations of the business and project team members as the technical solution evolves
• End to end ownership of the test environment by working with multiple internal teams and vendors to ensure the right technology conditions are created and supported
• Together with the Test Manager and QA/Test teams and Technical Leads, manage all environment related issues and customer concerns
• Work multi-functionally with the Infrastructure, Architecture and Technical teams in designing new environments/upkeep on existing environments
• Introduce the test data sets management and data virtualization. Establish practices within Run & change teams to optimize the value.

To be successful in this position, you will have:

• Extensive previous demonstrated experience in Technology Environment management
• Substantial previous commercial experience within software development projects and cloud migration
• Significant previous experience in the areas of software design and architecture
• The ability to work across and demonstrated strong leadership of multi-functional teams
• Demonstrable experience of being able to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving technology landscape
• Strong customer engagement skills and the ability to work with collaborators across multiple teams and levels of seniority
• A solid understanding and hands-on environment management experience in leading sophisticated business applications in both data centre and cloud environments
• Solid grasp of cloud computing, virtualisation and networking technologies
• Good experience in DevOps tools including BitBucket, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence

Why choose AIA:

We've made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people:

• Access our training and development to build on your current skills
• Access additional leave days a year to recharge and refresh yourself
• Work with supportive and inclusive working environment

​At AIA Australia, we’re proud to help guide, support and protect the wellbeing of over 3.5 million Australians. Through life and health insurance, financial wellbeing and our total wellbeing ecosystem that includes AIA Vitality – the world’s leading science-backed wellbeing program– we’ve started a movement to make Australia the healthiest, best protected nation in the world.

AIA is different. Are you?

To join an organisation that helps people live better every single day, apply via the link prior to COB on Friday, 15 March 2024!