Platform Lead - IT Infrastructure

Role Overview

Environment Scale

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Infrastructure Design: Lead the design of secure, scalable, resilient and high-performing infrastructure solutions across datacentres, remote sites, edge environments and Azure/AWS cloud platforms.
• Server & Hosting Platforms: Provide technical leadership across Windows and Linux operating systems, VMware virtualisation, enterprise compute, storage and hosting technologies.
• Implementation & Deployment: Lead infrastructure implementations, upgrades and deployments, including configuration, troubleshooting, testing and proof-of-concept environments.
• Operations & Reliability: Oversee the availability, reliability and performance of infrastructure supporting a large-scale, 24/7 operating environment.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and develop a team of 10+ Technical Engineers, providing technical direction while fostering collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Automation & Optimisation: Identify opportunities to automate repeatable activities, improve operational efficiency, optimise costs and simplify the infrastructure environment.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure infrastructure platforms meet security, patching, vulnerability remediation, compliance and governance requirements.
• Incident Management: Provide senior technical leadership during complex infrastructure incidents and Level 3 escalations, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Technology Strategy: Contribute to Viva Energy Group's infrastructure roadmap across server and hosting, datacentres, edge compute, cloud, automated deployment, resilience, scalability and cost optimisation.
• Risk & Resilience: Identify and mitigate infrastructure risks and contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with technology vendors, service providers, architects, application teams, security specialists and business stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and identify opportunities to modernise and continuously improve Viva Energy Group's infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years' experience in IT Infrastructure, supported by a strong hands-on technical background.
• 5+ years' experience as a Platform Lead, Infrastructure Lead, Infrastructure Manager or similar leadership role within a large enterprise environment.
• Significant experience managing complex server and hosting environments, datacentres and multi-site infrastructure.
• Extensive expertise across Windows and/or Linux systems administration and engineering.
• Strong experience with VMware virtualisation technologies.
• Experience with enterprise compute and storage technologies, including platforms such as Dell, Lenovo, Cisco, Dell EMC and NetApp.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience across Azure and/or AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated capability in architecting, designing, building and operating both on-premises and cloud-based enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience across server, storage and networking administration, configuration management, monitoring and alerting, backup and recovery, and patching.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop and remote desktop technologies.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation and containerisation technologies.

Additional Information

• You must hold full Australian working rights to be considered for this role.
• Viva Energy is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position; applicants must have unrestricted rights to work in Australia.
• This role is being sourced through Viva Energy Australia; applications via external recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
• Applications close 28th October 2026.