Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Experis; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Hybrid work arrangements

Cutting-edge technology access

Job summary

ManpowerGroup seeks an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and manage enterprise infrastructure platforms that support business-critical services and High Performance Computing environments. You will oversee storage, backup, virtualization, and data centre infrastructure across scaleable compute environments.

The role emphasizes engineering disciplines, secure design practices, and collaboration to evolve infrastructure strategies for research computing.

Qualifications

• Designed and supported enterprise storage environments.
• Experience with Linux operating systems and CLI.
• Expertise in producing production-grade VMware virtualisation.
• Understanding of data centre infrastructure for HPC/storage.
• Experience with security best practices in enterprise infra.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and IaC concepts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise storage, backup, and virtualisation platforms.
• Plan and manage data centre and network infrastructure for compute and storage environments.
• Apply engineering practices, including version control and IaC, for repeatable deployments across Kubernetes and underlying infra.
• Provide guidance to ensure alignment with approved architectures and operational models.
• Collaborate across teams to support HPC and research computing workloads.

Skills

Linux

VMware

Storage design

IaC

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security

Job description

Our client is a large, globally recognised organisation committed to delivering innovative technology platforms that support research, education, and enterprise operations. With a focus on digital transformation, high-performance computing, and technology excellence, the organisation invests heavily in modern infrastructure services that enable critical business and research outcomes. The environment is collaborative, forward-thinking, and offers the opportunity to work on complex infrastructure challenges at scale.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in the design, implementation, and management of enterprise infrastructure platforms that support both business-critical services and advanced High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. This role sits at the intersection of enterprise IT and research computing, ensuring the organisation's infrastructure can meet the demands of data-intensive workloads, large-scale compute environments, and future growth.

As a subject matter expert, you will be responsible for delivering and supporting enterprise-grade storage, backup, virtualisation, and data centre infrastructure, while contributing to the ongoing evolution of platforms that underpin HPC and research computing capabilities.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to the strategic planning, design, implementation and maintenance of enterprise high-performance storage solutions (SAN, NAS, object storage), backup platforms, and virtualisation platforms.
• Manage and plan the complex architectural design, deployment, and ongoing management of storage capacity, performance, and data protection.
• Provide technical expertise to ensure infrastructure solutions are delivered in accordance with approved technical architectures and operational models.
• Manage and undertake the design and upkeep of data centre facility and network infrastructure components critical for the operation of compute, storage, and virtualisation environments.
• Apply engineering principles, including version control, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to ensure robust and repeatable deployments across both Kubernetes and underlying infrastructure.

Required skills & experience:

Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise storage environments

Experience with Linux operating systems and command-line tools

• Expertise in designing, deploying, and managing production-grade VMware virtualisation environments
• Solid understanding of data centre infrastructure principles relevant to high-performance compute and storage environments

Experience working within enterprise infrastructure environments

• Experience with designing and building infrastructure solutions that align with security best practices
• Weekly pay
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Work with the latest cutting edge technology

Collaborative and highly skilled technical environment

Opportunity to influence infrastructure strategy and architecture

ManpowerGroup is committed to being a Diversity Confident Recruiter and encourages applications from people from a diverse range of backgrounds, including people with a disability. Please indicate your preferred method of communication in your resume and please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments should you be contacted for an interview.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.