Team Leader - Systems Services

Overview

Based in Sydney CBD in a hybrid work model, we invite you to join a team that empowers you to drive and lead technical decisions on a 12 month fixed term contract. You will be responsible for leading a small team of server engineers dedicated to the Core Modernisation Transition Team and for providing technical leadership and day to day management to support operational tasks, ensuring your team's outputs or services are effectively delivered on time.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of newly built greenfield infrastructure, helping mature and operate a modern compute platform rather than inheriting a legacy stack.
• Work within a squad structure that supports autonomy, shared ownership and meaningful input into technical outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve, automate and simplify the compute layer while contributing to strategic platform outcomes.
• Support the development of engineers across Cisco UCS, Broadcom VMware, RHEL, Windows and Terraform, building capability across the team's core technology stack.
• Provide technical guidance and day to day coordination for a small team of engineers responsible for all run activities of the new infrastructure.
• Help define standards, patterns and ways of working that support consistent delivery, automation compliance and improved operational maturity.
• Encourage a collaborative, improvement focused team culture where engineers are supported to take ownership, learn and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge and previous experience across Cisco UCS, Broadcom VMware, RHEL, Windows and Terraform.
• Adaptable to changing requirements, priorities, working styles and leadership needs.
• Comfortable working through complex problems and identifying practical pathways to resolution.
• Able to define clear pathways, structure outcomes and create direction for a team in complex or evolving environments.
• Skilled at supporting, guiding and coordinating others, including helping set goals and prioritise work to achieve delivery and operational outcomes.
• Strong vendor management capability, including negotiation skills and the ability to build effective relationships with technology partners.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to bring stakeholders and teams together around shared outcomes.

Benefits & Culture

Be whole working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

We're committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with a disability and members of the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

Application Close: August132026