Platform Operations & Reliability Manager

Bureau of Meteorology; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne is seeking an experienced leader to oversee a 24/7 mission-critical platform environment, including compute, storage, virtualization, backup, and Linux systems.

You will provide both technical and people leadership to a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring incident management, on-call coverage, and effective escalation for complex issues. This role carries end-to-end accountability across in-house and MSP partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the operational management of a 24/7 mission-critical platform environment.
• Oversee Linux systems support and infrastructure engineering across a multi-disciplinary team.
• Maintain platform availability via effective incident management, on-call leadership, and escalation handling.
• Ensure governance, service level management and security compliance per ISM and related frameworks.

Job description

Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne is seeking an experienced leader to oversee a 24/7 mission-critical platform environment, including compute, storage, virtualization, backup, and Linux systems.

You will provide both technical and people leadership to a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring incident management, on-call coverage, and effective escalation for complex issues. This role carries end-to-end accountability across in-house and MSP partners.