Infrastructure Automation Lead - Hybrid, Mentoring & IaC

RACV; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

RACV Club membership

Discounts on RACV products

Job summary

RACV is seeking a hands-on technical leader to drive infrastructure automation across on‑premises and hybrid cloud environments. You will shape automation strategy, mentor engineers, and work with Security, Architecture, and DevOps teams to modernise delivery of infrastructure services.

The role emphasises implementing IaC, governance, and scalable automation practices, while balancing delivery and on-call responsibilities within a diverse Technology Platforms team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical leader with a focus on automation and modern infrastructure practices.
• Experience delivering automation across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong Azure experience; AWS exposure beneficial.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and uplift capability.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation across provisioning, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and evolve Infrastructure as Code and configuration management practices.
• Improve platform provisioning, resilience, and operational efficiency through automation.
• Act as the technical authority for infrastructure automation and modern engineering practices.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to engineers.
• Contribute to solution design and architecture while staying hands-on.
• Partner with security teams to embed controls into automated solutions.
• Participate in a shared on-call roster to support critical platforms and services.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep

Azure

Hybrid cloud

Windows Server

Linux

Mentoring

DevOps mindset

Tools

PowerShell

Linux shells

Windows Server

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

RACV is seeking a hands-on technical leader to drive infrastructure automation across on‑premises and hybrid cloud environments. You will shape automation strategy, mentor engineers, and work with Security, Architecture, and DevOps teams to modernise delivery of infrastructure services.

The role emphasises implementing IaC, governance, and scalable automation practices, while balancing delivery and on-call responsibilities within a diverse Technology Platforms team.