**About the Role**
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Infrastructure Architect to join our team.
The successful candidate will design and implement secure, efficient, and scalable hybrid infrastructure environments that seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud resources.
This role requires a breadth of experience across a range of infrastructure technologies and platforms, with a thorough understanding of Microsoft Azure hub and spoke architecture, landing zone design, and associated security controls.
The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and be able to work closely with business stakeholders, security, and product delivery teams to understand their requirements and translate these into robust, scalable, resilient architecture patterns.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including IT strategy and roadmaps for the transition of workloads to cloud services and decommissioning of on-premises infrastructure.
* Provide architectural leadership and ensure alignment to our enterprise IT strategy across various projects and stakeholders.
* Design resilient, scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions connecting on-premise, Azure, M365, and D365, and Oracle ERP platforms.
* Design and implement security measures and compliance controls across the technical landscape, including network security, access management, and data protection, extending these considerations to integrated cloud services.
* Collaborate with vendors and partners to ensure new technology services are delivered in a way that follows our standards, meets our security requirements, and integrates with existing services.
* Work with product teams and procurement to evaluate and select emerging technology services to meet new business requirements and capabilities, where necessary recommending adoption and deployment strategies.
* Create and maintain documentation and models for architectures, configurations, standards, and best practices.
* Assist with the management and running of the architecture practice by streamlining internal processes and contributing to a positive, dynamic, and innovative team culture.
About You
* You will have significant experience in Information Technology with a deep understanding of IT infrastructure architecture and operations in a hybrid cloud configuration.
* Experience in translating business requirements for resilience, recoverability, performance, cost, and security to technical designs is essential.
* Good understanding and experience of disaster recovery and business continuity planning for infrastructure are also required.
* Experience in designing and implementing enterprise cloud architectures using Microsoft Azure and transitioning services to cloud is desirable.
* Knowledge of networking concepts, including Traffic Management, Secure Access Service Edge, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, Azure Firewall, Express Route Private Peering, is necessary.
* Expertise in designing and integrating on-premises infrastructure components, including servers, networking (routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, name resolution), and storage solutions (SAN, NAS) is also essential.
* A good knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy is required.
* A solid understanding of Australian government security frameworks, including the Protective Security Policy Framework, Essential 8, and Information Security Manual, is necessary.
About APRA
APRA serves the Australian community by helping ensure financial institutions deliver on the financial commitments they make, within a stable, efficient, and competitive financial system.
At APRA, we're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs, feels valued, and respected.