Platform Engineer Lead

Job summary

The IT Platform Engineering Lead is responsible for the technical ownership of platforms that support corporate operations and event delivery. Key responsibilities include evolving architecture across infrastructure, network, cloud, and identity platforms, establishing standards, and leading technical root cause analysis for major incidents. The role requires strong experience with Microsoft Azure, Cisco environments, and cybersecurity principles.

Qualifications

• strong experience designing and managing enterprise technology platforms
• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or a related discipline
• relevant architecture-level or professional certifications

Responsibilities

• Owning and evolving architecture across infrastructure, network, cloud, identity and endpoint platforms
• Acting as the technical design authority for infrastructure and platform changes
• Establishing standards, configuration baselines and repeatable design patterns
• Developing platform lifecycle strategies and maintaining a technology roadmap
• Leading infrastructure design and procurement decisions
• Driving platform resilience, availability, capacity and performance
• Defining and maintaining high-availability, backup and disaster recovery plans
• Ensuring cybersecurity principles are embedded into platform architecture
• Leading technical root cause analysis following major incidents
• Acting as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring across the IT team

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