Group Manager - Network, Storage and Data Centres

Monash•Clayton, NC

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University. Join our inclusive, collaborative community. Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them. Lead the Future of Infrastructure at Monash University. Monash University's technology infrastructure underpins research that changes lives and teaching that reaches students across the globe. Leading the team that keeps that infrastructure running is a role with genuine consequence. As Group Manager – Network, Storage and Data Centres, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across the university's enterprise network, storage platforms, and data centre environments within the Infrastructure Platforms team at Clayton. Your accountability spans a skilled technical team, vendor relationships, and the reliability of services that support hundreds of thousands of users.

Requirements

Demonstrated leadership of enterprise-scale network, storage, or data centre operations in a complex organisation
Proven experience managing technical teams through significant infrastructure transformation programs
Strong understanding of modern networking principles, storage architectures, and data centre operations
Experience managing vendor contracts, budgets, and service delivery within a governance framework
Ability to translate technical strategy for senior stakeholders outside the IT function
Familiarity with large, distributed campus or multi-site environments, consistent with the scale of a Group of Eight university

Responsibilities

Set the strategic direction for network, storage, and data centre platforms, aligning investment and roadmaps with university priorities
Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of infrastructure engineers and specialists
Govern platform performance, availability, and risk, ensuring services meet agreed standards across the Monash campus network
Drive modernisation programs, including hybrid cloud integration and data centre optimisation initiatives