Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect

Level 7, $139,860 - $149,485 pa, PSCSAA 2024

Come join the team at the new Department of Housing and Works.
The Department of Housing and Works delivers and maintains essential social housing and critical infrastructure across Western Australia—including schools, hospitals and police facilities.
We manage tenancy services, support housing provision in remote Aboriginal communities, and oversee government employee accommodation.
Through office accommodation solutions, State Fleet management, procurement, planning and asset policy, we empower other government agencies to deliver their best.
We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and culturally and linguistically diverse people.
We are committed to ensuring our hiring processes are inclusive.
If you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, young person or person with disability seeking assistance with your application, please contact Jobs and Skills WA on 13 64 64.
If you are a person living with disability and require any adjustments or accommodations, please contact Alex Georgio on 0475 694 *** or via email at ************@dohw.wa.gov.au.
You can also reach us through the National Relay Service.
When you join us, you can enjoy a variety of benefits, including:

flexible work options, including working from home up to 2 days per week.

professional development, training, and on-the-job learning to advance your career.

generous leave entitlements, which include 4 weeks annual leave, 3 public service holidays each year, accrued long service leave every 7 years and an option to purchase additional leave each year.
Access to cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

modern workspaces, where you choose your workspace that assists you to do your best work.

access to activity-based work hubs in the CBD, Fremantle and Joondalup for ad hoc flexible work.

corporate discounts with selected health insurance providers and access to wellness programs.
Opportunity to support our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Disability Access and Inclusion Plan, Indigenous Network, Gender Equity Champions Group, and Youth Working Group.

About The Role:
The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for developing, implementing and overseeing the strategy, roadmaps, lifecycle management and technical standards for the cloud infrastructure and platforms used by Department.
This includes creating and designing high level target state infrastructure architecture that aligns to internal best practice and guardrails, contributing to architecture decisions, costing and estimates of project engagements.
The department operates a hybrid environment that utilises the Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft 365 cloud and on-premise Microsoft Active directory-based infrastructure.
The applications use a combination of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases
About You:
Already an experienced Infrastructure Architect professional with a strong business acumen, you will have a track record of gathering and interpreting business requirements along with designing individual and integrated solutions to achieve business benefits.
Your outstanding collaboration and stakeholder management talents underpin your influencing approach, customer service centric ethos and ability to promote personal integrity
Either training, certifications and/or experience with Microsoft cloud and on premise environments is desirable.
This position operates in the context of Leading Others.
This means that you will motivate and enable others to deliver high quality work.
You will balance time between doing the work and coaching, guiding and developing others.
This requires a significant shift in thinking from 'doing' to supporting others to 'do good work'; and consideration of present and future needs when allocating time to the team and projects you lead.
You will articulate how work is to be done, providing clear direction and feedback.
How to Apply:
If you have what it takes to be part of our dynamic and forward-thinking team, submit the following in MS Word or PDF format only:

A comprehensive CV that shows your skills, experiences and key achievements, including the contact details of two referees (with one being your current or most recent supervisor).

Cover letter of two (2) pages or less, outlining how you meet the essential requirements of the role and demonstrate leadership behaviours.
with a particular focus on the following.

Extensive experience gathering & interpreting business requirements and designing individual and integrated solutions to achieve business benefits.
Substantial experience in developing a Dev Ops mindset and platform to improve solution delivery faster, predictably and with less risk

Please ensure you apply before the closing deadline as we won't accept late and incomplete applications.
Further Job-Related Information:
For further information about the position please contact Alex Georgio on 0475 694 *** (not to be contacted for Applicant Information Packs or assistance with lodging your application).
To assist you in preparing your application, please refer to the Applicant Information Pack, Job Description Form, and Leadership Behaviours.
Additionally, the WA Jobs and Workforce Hub provides information on working in Western Australia.
This includes guidance on applying for government sector jobs, industry insights, application tips, relocation resources, training opportunities, and apprenticeships.
If you are unable to view or download the documents, please call (08) 6557 81***and select option 1, or email ***********@dohw.wa.gov.au, mentioning the vacancy reference number VCID03231 for assistance.
Currently there is one (1) permanent full-time position available for filling from December 2025.
Whilst this selection process will initially be used to appoint to this advertised vacancy, it may also be used to appoint to similar positions that may arise in the Agency within the next twelve (12) months on a full-time, part-time, permanent or fixed-term basis with the possibility of further extension(s) and/or permanency.

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