Infrastructure Architect

Talenza; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect in Melbourne to provide technical leadership across enterprise infrastructure, focusing on current landscape assessment, future-state architecture, and practical recommendations for compute, storage, backup, virtualization and end-user computing.

You will define technology roadmaps, work with stakeholders, and guide major decisions to modernise platform strategy while balancing cost and resilience in a large organisation.

Qualifications

• Experienced Infrastructure Architect with enterprise focus.
• Strong background across compute, storage, backup and virtualization.
• Ability to develop practical future-state architecture and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture and technical direction across compute, storage, backup and virtualization environments.
• Assess existing backup and recovery capabilities and recommend future-state solutions.
• Review the current virtualization environment and evaluate future options, including alternative platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance across enterprise storage, compute and data protection technologies.
• Assess end-user computing environments including potential VDI solutions.
• Develop technology roadmaps balancing capability, cost and future direction.
• Work with stakeholders to guide infrastructure strategy and decisions.

Skills

Enterprise compute infra

VMware virtualization

Enterprise storage & data protection

Citrix & end-user computing

Technology roadmaps & architecture

Tools

Commvault

Dell Data Domain

Hyper-V

VDI platforms

Job description

We're partnering with a large, complex organisation seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to provide technical leadership across its core infrastructure environment.
This role will focus on assessing the current technology landscape, defining future-state architecture and providing practical recommendations across compute, storage, backup, virtualisation and end-user computing.

Key responsibilities

• Provide architecture and technical direction across enterprise compute, storage, backup and virtualisation environments.
• Assess existing backup and recovery capabilities and recommend appropriate future-state solutions.
• Review the current virtualisation environment and evaluate future options, including alternative platforms and approaches.
• Provide architectural guidance across enterprise storage, compute and data protection technologies.
• Assess virtual desktop and end-user computing environments, including potential alternative VDI solutions.
• Develop practical technology roadmaps and recommendations that balance capability, operational requirements, cost and future direction.
• Work closely with technical and business stakeholders to guide infrastructure strategy and key technology decisions.

About you

You'll be an experienced Infrastructure Architect with a strong background across enterprise infrastructure and the ability to operate at both strategic and technical levels.
Ideally, you'll bring experience across:

• Enterprise backup and recovery technologies, with Commvault experience highly regarded.
• VMware virtualisation environments and broader enterprise compute infrastructure.
• Enterprise storage and data protection platforms, with Dell Data Domain experience advantageous.
• Alternative virtualisation technologies, including Hyper-V.
• Citrix, virtual desktop infrastructure and broader end-user computing technologies.
• Infrastructure assessments, technology roadmaps and future-state architecture.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future direction of a significant enterprise infrastructure environment, with a strong focus on modernisation, platform strategy and pragmatic architecture.