IT Operations Manager

2 weeks ago


Adelaide Region SA, Australia Santos Ltd Full time

About Santos


Santos is a global energy company committed to increasingly cleaner energy and fuels production, with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.

Santos is one of Australia's biggest domestic gas suppliers, a leading LNG supplier in the Asia Pacific region.

We are committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project, while we all transition to cleaner fuels.


As customer demand evolves, Santos will grow and develop its cleaner energy and clean fuels, including hydrogen through carbon capture and storage, nature-based offsets, energy efficiency and use of renewables in its operations.


About the team


As a result of Santos' ongoing growth strategy, we are enhancing our Information Systems (IS) department to better align to business growth needs with newly organised teams who support our distinctive business operations.


In IS, we thrive on a varied agenda made up of ongoing operational excellence, new technology projects, and ongoing innovation.

We like to move fast and deliver exceptional results to support our low cost, disciplined operating model that promotes continuous improvement and a cloud-first approach to operations and service provision.

About the role


Based at our Flinders Street Office in Adelaide, the IT Operations Manager is responsible for delivering an all-inclusive common services portfolio directly to the global, service focused, Senior Operations Manager.


Role responsibilities:

  • Establishes effective operations, governance and management of the services within their portfolio alongside frequent, transparent reporting of service delivery.
  • Recommends improvements, with a focus on simplifying and standardised ways of operating in alignment with the IS company strategy
  • Maintains accurate forecasts and proactively manages budgets
  • Ensures the IS Infrastructure is maintained effectively, whether on Santos premise or in colo data centre. This includes server, network, end user and field telecommunications
  • Manages and ensure delivery of End User Computer services via internal staff and third party delivery
  • Partners with our core managed service provider to maintain and optimise IS services, and monitors supplier performance
  • Champions change and foster performance cultures to achieve desired culture outcomes and engaged team members and 3rd party managed service providers

About you

  • Experience in leading teams of professionals and/or individual contributors
  • Understanding of ITIL principals
  • Recent experience with vendor contracts and supplier management
  • Demonstrated experience in successfully managing the delivery of multiple concurrent projects
  • Proven experience in successfully managing business change, influencing great outcomes and has evolved ways of working
  • Experience in stakeholder management


You will also ideally be degree qualified or hold equivalent tertiary and/or relevant work/industry experience in related IS/IT technical area.


Supporting a Diverse Workforce
Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves.

We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our ongoing success.


We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.

Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 30 November 2023.

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