Technical Architect, Server and Cloud Position
We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Architect to join our Server and Cloud team.
Key Responsibilities
* 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.
Requirements
* Advanced technical expertise in hybrid infrastructure platforms, including cloud services (Azure/AWS), virtualisation, and on-premises systems.
* Proven experience designing and implementing infrastructure solutions in complex enterprise environments.
* Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, scripting, and DevOps practices.
* Ability to produce and maintain technical standards, architecture documentation, and platform roadmaps.
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to guide teams through technical challenges.
* Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to mentor and influence technical teams.
* A collaborative mindset and commitment to fostering a high-performance, inclusive team culture.
* Demonstrated ability to promote a strong ICT team culture that values the contributions of all team members, is honest and considerate, and through that contributes to a high-performance team.