Senior Infrastructure Architect

This position plays a pivotal role in shaping the technological infrastructure of our organization.

The Technical Architect, Server and Cloud will be responsible for leading the architectural design and strategic alignment of infrastructure platforms. This includes aligning solutions with enterprise architecture and strategy, participating in governance processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors to deliver scalable and secure infrastructure solutions.

As a technical mentor and escalation point for engineering and operational teams, this individual will provide guidance and support to ensure the successful implementation of infrastructure projects.

The position reports directly to the Manager, Server and Cloud and is based primarily at Mount Gravatt. However, there may be occasions where work is required at other campuses.

• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight across compute, storage, virtualisation, and cloud platforms.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and strategic goals.
• Develop and maintain architecture artefacts, standards, and reusable design patterns.
• Collaborate with other architects across ICT to ensure alignment between business requirements, technical implementation, and other technical domains.
• Work within the TAFE ICT Enterprise Architecture framework, participate in architecture governance forums, and support the architecture community of practice.
• Lead platform domain design reviews and provide mentorship to infrastructure engineering teams.
• Contribute to ICT strategic planning and produce and maintain platform strategy and roadmaps.
• Promote infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
• Collaborate with vendors and service providers to assess emerging technologies, validate and review existing and proposed solutions, guide implementation, and review processes.
• Provide consultation for technical issues and problems in infrastructure operations.
• Establish strong working relationships and communicate to a broad range of technical and non-technical clients, including key stakeholders and external consultants.

The ideal applicant will possess advanced technical expertise in hybrid infrastructure platforms, including cloud services (Azure/AWS), virtualisation, and on-premises systems. They will have proven experience designing and implementing infrastructure solutions in complex enterprise environments.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential, along with the ability to guide teams through technical challenges. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills are also required, including the ability to mentor and influence technical teams.

A collaborative mindset and commitment to fostering a high-performance, inclusive team culture are also highly desirable. Additionally, the ability to promote a strong ICT team culture that values the contributions of all team members, is honest and considerate, and contributes to a high-performance team is necessary.

• 5+ years enterprise IT experience, with 2+ years in technical architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Experience producing technical design documentation and standards.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent.
• The Open Group TOGAF 9 Certification.
• Awareness of the Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture (QGEA).
• Awareness of ITIL framework or similar process methodologies.
• Awareness of PRINCE2 or similar project management methodologies.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, Ansible).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation platforms.
• Knowledge of adjacent domains such as networking, IDAM, and security architecture.