Director, Platforms, Virtualisation and Infrastructure Full-time Permanent Senior Information Technology Officer Grade B ($149,172 - $167,151) PN72261 Digital Canberra Closes: 29 October 2026 View details

Director, Platforms, Virtualisation and Infrastructure
Full-time Permanent

Details: Digital Canberra is seeking an experienced infrastructure leader to join the Strategic Asset Management Program as Director, Platforms, Virtualisation and Infrastructure.

This role leads the technical delivery of major infrastructure refresh and transformation initiatives across ACT Government. You will oversee the design, implementation, migration and transition of enterprise hosting, virtualisation and compute platforms that support critical government services.

Working with architects, engineers, project teams, operational stakeholders and industry partners, you will provide technical leadership across infrastructure modernisation activities, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, supportable and aligned with future business needs. The role provides significant opportunity to influence platform strategy, lifecycle planning, capacity management and technology renewal outcomes across government.

We are looking for a collaborative and technically capable leader with experience delivering enterprise infrastructure, virtualisation or data centre transformation initiatives within complex environments.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• The successful applicant must be an Australian citizen.
• This position is a Position of Trust and requires the successful applicant to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) security clearance.
• Experience delivering infrastructure refresh, migration or data centre transition activities within large enterprise or government environments is highly desirable.
• Experience with enterprise backup, recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring and automation tooling in virtualised or private cloud environments is highly desirable.
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP-DCV, VCP-VVF Administrator/Support or VCP-VCF Administrator) certifications are highly desirable.
• Understanding of, or certification in, IT service management frameworks such as ITIL is desirable.
• A current driver's licence is highly desirable.

Notes:AMeritPoolwillbeestablishedfromthisselectionprocessandwillbeusedtofillvacanciesoverthenext12months.

Selection may be based on application and referee reports only.

Opportunitiesforflexibleworkingoptionscouldincludehybridworking,beingacombinationofworkingfromhome,designatedofficebasedandFlexiSpaceworkinglocationsacrosstheACT,part-timehours,job-sharing,flexiblestartandfinishtimes.

CurrentandformerAustralianDefenceForcemembersareencouragedtoapply.

ThispositionrequiresthesuccessfulapplicanttobeanAustraliancitizenandobtainandmaintainanAustralianGovernmentNV1securityclearance.

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal .