Infrastructure Architect

Service and Invest

Position No:

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

• 1x Full-Time, Permanent position available

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 If you are a person living with disability and require any adjustments or accommodations, please contact Alex Georgio on or via email at 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 think you have what it takes to be a part of our dynamic and forward thinking team, please click the
"APPLY FOR THIS JOB"
button and you will be redirected to WA Government Jobs and follow the advertising instructions. If not directed straight to the position, please key the position number into the web search box.

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 not to be contacted for Applicant Information Packs or assistance with lodging your application).

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.

Closing Date:
Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 4:00pm (AWST)