Extreme Weather Manager

Bureau of Meteorology; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne, Australia, seeks an experienced Application Operations Team Lead to oversee a team of IT professionals. The role focuses on keeping business applications running 24/7 with high stability and security, while driving continuous improvement and reliability across systems and services.

You will develop a cohesive team, lead day-to-day operations, and ensure rapid response to operational needs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading IT operations teams.
• Proven ability to maintain stable, resilient systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of IT professionals within Application Operations.
• Ensure 24/7 availability of business applications and services.
• Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Support and optimise existing systems and bring new systems into production.
• Lead day-to-day activities and provide strong leadership and oversight.

Skills

IT Leadership

Team Management

IT Operations

Job description

As part of the Application Operations leadership team, you will apply your expert IT knowledge and leadership experience to provide an exceptional customer experience, lead employee engagement, drive operational excellence and continuous improvement.

You are someone who thrives on ensuring Information Technology Systems and Business services are stable and resilient and has a passion for the development of technology teams for IT Operations with a modernisation mindset driven by digital influences.

As an Application Operations Team Lead you will be responsible for overseeing a Team of IT professionals within the Bureau whose charter is to keep the businesses applications running and operating 24/7 in an efficient manner, giving the business agility, and addressing operational needs quickly. You will support and optimise existing systems, bring into production new systems, oversee and direct the day-to-day activities of an application operational team ensuring that systems, services, and applications work reliably and securely.

To drive the expected results, you will build and support a cohesive team of strong contributors working together towards a common stable service orientated goal. You will have immaculate qualifications, be supremely analytical and an exceptional communicator. This role will have direct responsibility for managing, developing, and providing day to day leadership and oversight for an IT Application's Team within Application Operations.