Infrastructure IT Operations Manager - Sydney

Role: Infrastructure IT Operations Manager

Location: Barangaroo

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As we find new ways to connect rural communities with food, animal feed, and industrial customers around the world, we’re proud to be leading the way in sustainable agriculture.

Purpose:

Lead GrainCorp’s Infrastructure Operations function onshore and international sites ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable technology services across our cloud and on‑prem environments, while driving continuous improvement and modernisation across platforms.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and uplift GrainCorp’s global cloud and on‑prem infrastructure operations.
• Ensure high availability, strong cybersecurity alignment, and operational resilience across all regions.
• Deliver major infrastructure projects including cloud migrations, DR uplift, security enhancements and ERP/SAP initiatives.
• Oversee day‑to‑day operational performance, SLAs, technical governance, and change management.
• Provide technical leadership across Azure, virtualisation, networking, identity, OT, and security.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Systems Engineers and Network Specialists across multiple geographies.
• Manage vendors, contracts, renewals, budgets, cloud spend (FinOps), and hardware lifecycle programs.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and documentation improvements to uplift operational maturity.
• Maintain patching compliance across the infrastructure landscape
• Lead, review, respond and apply actions resulting for various infrastructure assessment 

About You

You're a seasoned IT professional with a passion for infrastructure excellence and team leadership. You thrive in dynamic environments where strategic thinking meets hands-on problem-solving. You're comfortable managing complex stakeholder relationships while driving technological innovation. Your natural leadership style inspires teams to achieve exceptional results, and you have a proven track record of delivering large-scale infrastructure projects on time and within budget.

You will bring:

• 8–10+ years of experience across infrastructure, cloud, networking, and IT operations
• Deep Azure capability (Landing Zones, networking, identity, security, automation).
• Strong on‑prem expertise (Hyper‑V/Nutanix, Windows Server, SAN storage, backups, DR). 
• Proven leadership across operational teams, vendors, risk reduction, and service delivery.
• Demonstrated financial acumen with responsibility for budgets, forecasting, cloud cost optimisation, and cost control.
• Experience improving documentation, governance, and high‑availability environments.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication skills, and ability to influence outcomes.
• Ideally, exposure to OT/SCADA or industrial environments (a plus, not essential)

If you are passionate about modernising technology, strengthening resilience, and enabling business performance through high‑quality infrastructure, this role offers a meaningful opportunity to make an impact.

What we offer:

• Professional development & leadership programs
• Hybrid work and flexible leave options including birthday leave
• Health & wellbeing support
• Inclusive, values-driven culture
• We’re proud to be a Family Inclusive Workplace accredited employer, supporting balance, care and flexibility in every career

Ready to apply?

It’s simple, submit your application. If your background aligns, our team will be in touch for a quick chat about your experience. We’re looking forward to getting to know you!

Successful candidate will be required to undergo reference checks and background checks as part of the recruitment process.