Job No.:
682667
Location:
Clayton campus
Employment Type:
Full-time
Duration:
3-year fixed-term appointment
Remuneration:
A competitive remuneration package will apply (plus 17% employer superannuation)
* Make your mark at a university ranked in the world's top 50
* Harness cutting-edge technology to deliver at scale
* Guide a team of experts to achieve extraordinary outcomes
The Opportunity
Monash University is seeking an exceptional leader for the role of Director – Infrastructure Services. This pivotal position will drive the vision, strategy, and delivery of Monash's core IT infrastructure across networks, cloud, storage, compute, data centres, identity and server services. As a senior leader in the eSolutions team, you will lead the modernisation, security, scalability, availability and performance of the University's infrastructure platforms, ensuring alignment with Monash's global operations and strategic ambitions.
This position will be responsible for leading the design, optimisation, and delivery of Monash's core infrastructure services, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, secure, and future-focused. You will develop and deliver a multi-year roadmap for infrastructure modernisation, scalability and AI-driven optimisation, aligned to Monash's Impact 2030 strategy and global digital footprint. Building and nurturing high-performing teams will be central to your leadership, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. You will also drive service optimisation, automation and AI enablement across infrastructure platforms, strengthen platform resilience, security, audit readiness and compliance with national and international standards, and drive effective vendor and stakeholder engagement to maximise value and impact across the Monash Group.
To be successful in this role, you will have extensive leadership experience in enterprise-scale infrastructure services within complex environments. You'll bring strategic vision, a strong track record in transformation and service delivery, and familiarity with core infrastructure including cloud, networks, virtualisation, data centres, compute, storage, identity and engineering.. Your ability to lead high-performing teams, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and manage commercial partnerships will be critical. Proven success in driving innovation, governance, automation and compliance uplift, will also be essential to success in this position.
About Monash University
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We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That's why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Please address the following Key Selection Criteria as part of your cover letter;
* Proven success leading enterprise infrastructure services at scale in a large and complex environment.
* Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing teams with a focus on people development, capability uplift and service culture.
* Strong understanding of cloud, network, virtualisation, identity, server and data centre technologies.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr- in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries:
Jack Bradley, Senior Recruitment Consultant,
Position Description:
Director, Infrastructure Services
Applications Close:
Monday 20 October 2025, 11:55pm AEDT
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For instructions on how to apply, click on the "Apply" button above for the full position description and instructions on how to apply for Monash jobs.