Infrastructure Lead – Secure Government Environment
About the Company
This opportunity sits within a secure Federal Government program delivering mission‑critical ICT capability in a highly regulated environment. The program supports stand‑alone and classified systems and works within strict engineering and security frameworks to ensure resilience, availability and compliance. You will join a highly skilled technical team supporting nationally significant systems.
About the Role
The Infrastructure Lead will provide technical leadership across infrastructure platforms within a secure, isolated network environment. Working closely with architects, project managers, security teams and operations staff, you will be responsible for the design, build, configuration, maintenance and lifecycle management of critical infrastructure components.
This is a hands‑on leadership role suited to a senior infrastructure professional with strong experience across virtualisation, container platforms and secure environments.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead the design, deployment and lifecycle management of secure infrastructure platforms
- Develop, build, configure and maintain stand‑alone network environments
- Manage patching, updates and configuration baselines within isolated systems
- Ensure compliance with ISM, DSPF and security best practices
- Provide technical leadership across VMware and Red Hat OpenShift platforms
- Lead infrastructure planning and readiness for OpenShift and container adoption
- Oversee Dell server infrastructure including installation, racking, cabling and capacity planning
- Administer Dell iDRAC, performance monitoring, backup and recovery processes
- Lead incident management activities including root cause analysis and recovery
- Develop and maintain detailed architecture diagrams, SOPs and technical documentation
- Mentor infrastructure engineers and administrators, building team capability
- Collaborate with security, project management and operational teams
- Monitor system performance, resource usage and plan for future growth
- Senior‑level experience with HCI platforms, including VMware and Red Hat OpenShift
- Experience working in Defence or other high‑security environments
- Strong understanding of the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM)
- Experience integrating compute, storage and networking within HCI environments
- Experience with automation and orchestration tools
- Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Proven problem‑solving capability in complex technical environments
- Familiarity with ACSC, DSPF and PSPF frameworks
- Experience with compliance reporting and risk assessment activities
- Long‑term contract opportunity
- Canberra‑based role
- Highly secure and technically complex environment
- Opportunity to lead and shape critical infrastructure capability
- Collaborative and engineering‑focused program
- Australian citizenship is mandatory
- Active NV2 security clearance (or higher) is required to be considered
Please upload your resume to apply. Please provide a supporting statement highlighting your skills, experience, and capability against the position description to complete this application process. We will be in touch with instructions for suitably skilled candidates.
Why Partner with Whizdom?
We’re Whizdom. We view you as an extension of our strong, dependable brand and have differentiators which really are different!
The Whizdom way:
- We pay our contractors same day you submit your timesheet
- We are Level 3, DISP certified and have signed the Veteran Employment Commitment, proactively assisting veterans transitioning from the forces to civilian roles
- We’ve been awarded the highest level of compliance under this initiative and are ISO 9001 certified
- Our commitment to reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions has been accredited in line with large global organisations
- We value diversity and welcome applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and people living with a disability
- Our team is passionate about doing the right thing and supporting your long‑term career goals
- We even provide a best‑in‑industry merch pack!
Even if this role isn’t the exact fit for you, we’d love to chat - contact us to find out more.
