The role
- Provide strategic leadership for digital products, services and projects that achieve strategic business outcomes.
- Provide strategic advice and informed recommendations to senior leaders on delivery, risk, investment and priority decisions.
- Champion process improvements and best-practice governance to enhance efficiency and service delivery.
- Engage and collaborate with stakeholders across the division and broader agency to strengthen governance and operational resilience.
Team and Technical Lead, Platform Services
- Leads technical staff and provides strategic technical leadership across core infrastructure technologies (enterprise server, identity, and security platforms) supporting the department's ICT environment
- Responsible for workforce management, technical direction, modernisation planning and delivery of complex technical work
- Provides strategic direction and technical oversight across enterprise platforms
- Coordinates operational priorities, project delivery, and service improvements
- Ensures availability, resilience, security, and lifecycle management of supported technologies
Senior Server Engineer, Platform Services
- Leads the management, design, maintenance, and improvement of enterprise server, identity, and security platforms.
- Supports system availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and lifecycle management
- Provides expert technical advice and evidence-based recommendations across the Platform Services technology stack
- Leads troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex issues
- Drives platform modernisation, innovation, and automation initiatives
- Develops and maintains technical documentation, standards, and procedures.
Assistant Manager, Cloud Platforms
- Supports cloud platform operations, cloud financial management (FinOps), governance and service delivery
- Leads Cloud FinOps and financial governance practices across Azure and AWS environments, including cost optimisation, budgeting, forecasting and cost allocation
- Establishes and enforces FinOps governance practices, including tagging standards, cost allocation models, budgeting controls, and policy compliance.
- Develop and maintain cloud consumption dashboards and provide financial insights to support budgeting, investment planning and executive decision-making.
Candidates are encouraged to tailor their pitch to highlight how their skills and capabilities suit the role of their preference.
Job description
About the Department
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources and our broader portfolio are integral to the Australian Government’s economic agenda. Our purpose is to help the government build a better future for all Australians through enabling a productive, resilient and sustainable economy, enriched by science and technology. We do this by:
- Growing innovative & competitive businesses, industries and regions
- Investing in science and technology
- Strengthening the resources sector.
The APS and the department offer a clear direction and meaningful work. You will be able to create positive impact in people’s lives whilst contributing to improved outcomes for Australia and our people.
If you would like to feel a strong connection to your work and you are accountable, committed and open to change, join us in shaping Australia’s future.
Please see the APSC’s APS Employee Value Proposition for more information on the benefits and value of employment within the APS.
About the team
The Chief Information Officer Division (CIOD) is a diverse and dynamic division that drives the digital agenda for the department. Leading the delivery of the department’s digital offerings and transformation, the CIO Division partners with business areas and stakeholders to:
- Realise the digital policy objectives of the department
- Define the department’s digital landscape
- Co-design digital experiences making it simpler to innovate, collaborate and communicate
- Drive the innovation and transformation of IT services
- Protect the department from cyber threats
- Provide a strong technology foundation for staff
The CIOD is comprised of four branches:
- Digital Services for Business - delivers whole-of-government digital services that support Australian businesses and the transformation of ICT services in alignment with government digital policy goals.
- Digital Strategy and Cyber Security - sets the direction for the division making sure that our technology is cyber secure, strategically sound and meets our accessibility and user needs.
- Digital Enabling Services – delivers and maintains core ICT infrastructure and services, supporting both day-to-day operations and major transformation initiatives, ensuring departmental ICT systems are secure, reliable, and aligned with strategic objectives.
- Digital Modernisation - transforming the department’s business systems and driving the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI.
The opportunity
The Chief Information Officer’s Division is offering multiple opportunities for EL1 technical and non-technical leaders who are interested in leading in the department’s ICT space, with immediate vacancies in our Cloud Platforms and Platform Services teams.
Our ideal candidate
Our ideal candidate will demonstrate a combination of the following capabilities:
- Experience leading collaborative project and/or technical teams, fostering a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.
- Proactive with excellent judgement and decision-making capability.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Lead and develop staff through coaching, performance management, and capability building.
- Provides strategic direction, coordination and technical oversight to support operational priorities, project delivery, and service improvements.
- Ensures availability, resilience, security, and lifecycle management of supported technologies.
- Actively participates in leadership forums, governance boards, and stakeholder engagements.
- Drives innovation, continuous improvement, and service excellence.
- Manages risks, issues, reporting, and operational projects in line with established governance requirements.
Eligibility requirements
To be eligible for employment in the APS and the department, candidates must be Australian Citizens.
Positions require a Baseline security clearance and successful candidates will be required to obtain and maintain a clearance at this level.
About the agency
The department’s Enterprise Agreement and policies provide for a flexible working environment to assist staff balance their work and home life. Staff and managers work together to balance the operating needs of the department with the needs of the individual. Options may include full time/part time working arrangements, working from home or other arrangements. Our employees say they recommend our department as a good place to work. Our workplace is one that encourages and supports all employees to have a sense of belonging and a culture that allows them to bring their authentic selves to work every day. Our reconciliation vision supports a workforce with opportunities and career pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The vision allows them to feel empowered and helps to ensure that the department and broader community can benefit from the knowledge and experience of Australia’s First Peoples. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, nationalities and backgrounds including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, mature age, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people of the LGBTIQA+ community and people with disability. The department wants to give candidates the opportunity to demonstrate their full potential during a recruitment process. We encourage candidates who require any adjustments or support as part of the recruitment process to reach out and discuss them with the job’s contact officer. Candidates are also welcome to contact our Inclusion team at [email protected] for a confidential discussion if you identify from any of these diverse backgrounds and would like to discuss how we can support you.Notes
A merit pool may be established and used to fill future vacancies within 18 months from the date the vacancy was first advertised in the Gazette.
The department does currently offer flexible work opportunities for many roles. This vacancy is Canberra-based, although flexible or remote work arrangements may be considered. Please reach out to the contact officer to discuss this further.