Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

• 6 month contract + multiple extension terms
• Hybrid working - 3 days a week in office
• AUS Citizenship required - Minimum Baseline Clearance

The Opportunity

An established national organisation delivering critical digital and data services across Australia is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Project Manager to join its Infrastructure Portfolio within a major Delivery Enablement Program.

This is a high-impact role responsible for delivering a diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects across data centre, cloud, network and security environments. You will operate in a complex, highly integrated, high-availability ecosystem where precision, stakeholder engagement and disciplined delivery are essential.

You will lead the end-to-end delivery of infrastructure initiatives within a structured enterprise portfolio framework. Working in a matrix environment alongside technical leads, architects, vendors and business stakeholders, you will drive projects from design through build, transition and operational handover.

This role suits an experienced infrastructure PM who thrives in technically complex environments with interdependencies, tight timeframes and multiple stakeholders.

Candidates must demonstrate proven experience implementing site relocations, including relocation of infrastructure environments into new data centres.

This includes:

• Planning and delivering physical and logical site migrations
• Coordinating compute, storage, network and security transitions
• Managing high-availability cutovers with minimal service disruption
• Overseeing transition-to-operations documentation and readiness
• Managing vendor coordination and stakeholder communications throughout relocation programs

Experience delivering infrastructure relocations in mission-critical or government environments will be highly regarded.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver infrastructure projects and programs under a PRINCE2-aligned enterprise governance framework
• Manage scope, schedule, financial tracking and documentation in line with enterprise delivery standards
• Coordinate design, build, testing, implementation, transition to operations and post-implementation review
• Lead risk, issue, dependency and change management at project level
• Oversee procurement of hardware, software and services
• Manage vendors and external delivery partners
• Engage stakeholders across technical, operational and executive layers
• Facilitate knowledge capture and continuous improvement practices
• Apply Agile, ITIL and change management methodologies (including ADKAR)
• Ensure compliance with enterprise governance, WHS and public sector standards

Critical Experience & Skills

• Proven delivery experience in modern data centre, cloud, network and security environments
• Demonstrated capability managing complex infrastructure programs with significant integrations and dependencies
• Strong financial management and reporting experience within enterprise project offices
• Certification in one or more recognised project management methodologies
• Strong working knowledge of PRINCE2
• Experience using Microsoft Project and Jira in enterprise settings
• Ability to manage large, multi-disciplinary teams and delivery partner.

Desirable

• Experience working within Federal Government environments
• Familiarity with enterprise procurement and EPMO governance frameworks
• Exposure to collaboration platforms including Office 365, SharePoint, Teams and GitLab

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to lead critical infrastructure delivery within a nationally significant digital environment. You will work on complex, enterprise-scale initiatives that directly support high-availability services relied upon across Australia.

If you bring deep infrastructure project delivery expertise — particularly in data centre relocations and site migration programs — we want to hear from you.

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Australian Electoral Commission

LH-05652

Closing date – Thursday 26^th Feb, 2026, 11:59pm

Estimated start – Tuesday 24^th March, 2026

Initial Contract – ASAP to June 2026

Extension term – 12 months

Number of extensions – 2

Experience Level – Senior – EL1 Equivalent

Location – QLD, ACT

Working arrangements – Hybrid - Applicants will preferably perform the role in Canberra or Brisbane. Hybrid working arrangements (i.e. a combination of onsite attendance at an AEC office and remote working) will be considered at the discretion of the Hiring Manager.

Maximum hours – 40 hours per week

Security Clearance – Active Baseline and must be able to obtain NV1

Job details

The AWS Cloud Engineer will support the Infrastructure Server Team Leader, focusing on managing and improving the AEC’s AWS Cloud platform, infrastructure, and services.

The duties will be primarily focussed on managing components from solutions based in AWS with possible additional tasks in on-premises infrastructure and in Azure.

Reporting to the Platform Lead, Hosting Platforms, this role will contribute to the infrastructure team’s mission to deliver positive outcomes for the operational matters relating to the management and support of AEC infrastructure and systems.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the delivery of electoral events and day-to-day operations through an improved maturity of AEC’s systems.

Key duties and responsibilities

This role will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• In partnership with the rest of the infrastructure team/s, provide systems expertise to enhance and improve existing solutions, including designing, developing, implementing, and testing solutions, in line with business requirements and software development standards;
• Managing the AWS Landing zone, including provisioning of resources and service, optimizing costs, and ensuring security and compliance.  
• Implementing and enforcing platform best practices to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the AWS environment.
• Implementing platform security controls to protect AWS resources and data from unauthorised access and cyber threats. 
• Collaborating with architecture and engineering teams to design and implement scalable software services.
• Collaborating with other teams in the work area, investigating and resolving complex issues with the operation of infrastructure and infrastructure as code;
• Troubleshooting systems and solving problems across all platform and application domains.
• Ensuring deadlines are consistently met and that a high standard of technical and design documentation is provided;
• Defining, developing and documenting the existing automation technologies to enhance the system’s build, test and deployment capabilities 
• Perform additional duties or assume responsibility of functions as directed from time to time. 

Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrated extensive experience working within Cloud Infrastructure (Azure and AWS) in hybrid cloud and on-premise environments and experience in virtualization, cloud computing, and storage technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all levels and manager key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in and/or ability to learn various AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Route 53, Direct Connect, and VPN and SCP.
• Demonstrated experience in implementation and management of security controls within AWS, including Identity and Access management (IAM) policies, security groups, encryption, and key management.
• Experience with AWS monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config for ensuring platform health and compliance.
• Willingness to learn troubleshooting skills and understand how to optimise AWS resources for performance, cost, and security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of risk management principles and processes in context of security patch management and infrastructure management.

Desirable criteria

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS Cloud Development Kit to automate infrastructure deployments and management.
• Proven understanding of ITIL, TOGAF concepts with a focus on Incident, Problem and Change Management and knowledge of the Commonwealth frameworks, including the PSPF and ISM..
• Relevant qualifications in AWS.  
• Understanding of compliance standards and experience implementing governance frameworks within AWS.
• Demonstrated experience in the development and maintenance of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in deploying, testing, and maintaining an enterprise sized ICT environment.

Stakeholder Engagement Specialist

12 Month Contract Role + 12 month extension 

We are seeking an experienced Stakeholder Engagement Specialist to join a high-performing program team delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions within a complex government environment. This role will support major project initiatives by providing strategic communication, stakeholder engagement, and business transition expertise.

About the Role

As a key member of a multidisciplinary PMO team, you will work closely with project managers, change leads, technical specialists, and external partners to ensure communication and engagement activities are integrated, timely, and effective. You will provide expert advice to support successful project delivery and help maintain a positive reputation across a broad range of stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver communication strategies, plans, and tailored materials that support project objectives
• Plan and execute stakeholder engagement activities across internal and external audiences
• Design and deliver consultation activities, including analysis and reporting of stakeholder feedback
• Produce high-quality communication products such as briefing notes, fact sheets, FAQs, presentations, and updates
• Identify and manage stakeholder and reputational risks, ensuring issues are documented and escalated appropriately
• Build strong relationships with project teams, delivery partners, industry groups, and government stakeholders
• Monitor stakeholder sentiment and provide strategic advice on emerging issues
• Ensure governance and approval requirements are embedded within project timelines
• Act as a trusted advisor on best-practice communication and engagement approaches

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in communications and stakeholder engagement roles
• Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder or government environments
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement engagement and communication strategies
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities
• Proven capability to translate complex information into clear, accessible messaging
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
• Experience working within fast-paced project or PMO environments

Personal Attributes

• Collaborative and team-focused approach
• Resilient and adaptable under pressure
• Strong judgement and problem-solving capability
• Professional presence with the ability to engage at all levels

Working Arrangements

• Hybrid working model – minimum 3 days per week on site
• Full-time commitment, 5 days per week
• Initial contract with potential for extension
• Leave requirements apply for long-term engagements

Availability

Candidates should be available to commence as soon as possible and commit to the full contract period.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume outlining relevant experience in stakeholder engagement, communications, and project delivery within complex environments.

Role: Senior Test Analyst

Locations: Brisbane (North Brisbane - Carseldine) 

Duration: Contract 10 months (with possible extensions) 

Talent Street is looking for a Senior Test Analyst for one of our large Queensland State government clients. 

Role purpose: 

The Senior Test Analyst role:

Reporting directly to the Project Test Manager on a project level, this role requires an experienced Senior Test Analyst to work in a small testing team on a complex in flight Agile project. It will be a priority for this role to ensure that the data migration has been completed correctly, and to ensure that the detailed requirements are verified via testing.  We are not seeking expertise in any field, as diverse areas of expertise will be helpful, but experience working in busy government departments would be an advantage.

It is imperative that the applicant can be flexible, and able to work with a diverse Agile team of professionals.

The Senior Test Analyst plays a critical role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality ICT solutions by planning, executing, and delivering high-quality software testing and quality assurance (QA) activities using risk and requirements-based testing principles. The Senior Test Analyst contributes to all aspects of the software testing lifecycle by providing technical testing leadership, hands-on test execution, and strategic advice to internal and external stakeholders, and teams, ensuring quality outcomes that align with business and technical requirements. The Senior Test Analyst works collaboratively within project teams, with technical specialists, and business stakeholders to validate solution readiness, improve quality outcomes, and contribute to the continuous improvement of testing frameworks, standards, and processes across the organisation, while managing stakeholder expectations, and supporting ICT solution delivery.

Key duties and responsibilities:

1. Test Planning and Governance

• Delivery of testing activities across Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery environments.
• Produce and maintain high‑quality test test cases, test summary reports, data requirements,  and traceability matrices.
• Work with the Test Manager and agile team to ensure that  testing is aligned with organisational test policies, standards, frameworks, and quality management approaches.

2. Test Design and Execution

• Conduct functional, integration, system, regression, and end‑to‑end testing using ISTQB‑aligned test design techniques.
• Deliver non‑functional testing across relevant quality characteristics.
• Validate solution readiness against business workflows, regulatory obligations, technical designs, and acceptance criteria.

3. Quality Engineering and Tooling

• Apply modern quality engineering practices including shift‑left, shift‑right, continuous testing, and quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyse logs, data, monitoring insights to support exploratory testing, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

4. Defect and Risk Management

• Assist in leading and facilitating defect triage sessions, ensuring timely prioritisation, root cause analysis, and resolution.
• As directed, provide clear, concise reporting on test progress, coverage, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders.
• Identify risks early, recommend mitigation strategies, and proactively communicate quality impacts.

5. Collaboration, Leadership and Mentoring

• Partner with business analysts, developers, architects, product owners, and project managers to ensure shared understanding of quality goals.
• Mentor and coach testers and team members on test techniques, tooling, and quality engineering practices.
• Advocate for best‑practice testing, promoting a quality‑first mindset across the delivery lifecycle.
• Support stakeholder engagement through clear communication of test outcomes, risks, value, and recommendations.

6. Continuous Improvement and Innovation

• Stay current with industry trends including AI‑assisted testing, model‑based testing, automation optimisation, and cloud testing.
• Drive adoption of modern tools and practices that enhance testing efficiency, accuracy, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of organisational testing frameworks, processes, and templates.

Qualifications and Skills:

1. Mandatory:

• ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) or international equivalent.
• Bachelor degree or diploma qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Demonstrated recent experience in functional, integration, and regression testing across complex ICT environments.
• Practical experience designing and executing tests using modern test management and collaboration tools.
• Experience working with business users.

2. Desirable:

• Additional ISTQB® or equivalent certifications, such as:
  • ISTQB® Certified Tester - Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL‑TA)
  • ISTQB® Certified Tester - Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst (CTAL‑TTA)
  • ISTQB® Test Automation Engineer (CT‑TAE)
  • ISTQB® AI Testing (CT‑AI)
• Familiarity with Agile development processes, and or SCRUM, KANBAN experience.
• Experience with test management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr).
• Experience using, or the ability to learn how to use Zephyr in an Agile development environment.
• Experience in, or a personal interest in acquiring knowledge of AI testing methods and applying these as required in the test environment.
• The ability to be flexible and to work collaboratively as part of a team of professionals both within the testing team and beyond.
• Experience working with a vendor delivered COTS product.
• Experience working on a project with data migrated from many different sources.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven ability to work both in an office and from elsewhere effectively.
• Proven experience testing on a Vendor COTS product.
• Experience working as a UAT Coordinator would be an advantage.

Role: Technical Network Engineer – Cisco Projects Lead

Location: Hervey Bay, Queensland

Duration: Contract – 12 months   

Talent Street is looking for a Technical Network Engineer for one of our clients in the local government in Hervey Bay QLD.

Required experience and skills:

• Minimum CCNA; CCNP or equivalent preferred.
• 5+ years delivering Cisco network projects (Catalyst, Nexus, ISE, DNA/Catalyst Center) with multi‑floor or multi‑site build experience.
• Proven Layer‑3 architecture skills: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and HA aggregation topologies.
• Experience designing and validating structured cabling and fibre backbones, PoE and comms‑room planning.
• Practical Cisco ISE design and enforcement (802.1X, MAB, guest access).
• Demonstrated experience delivering WAN fibre projects and conducting fibre audits (OTDR/LL testing, end‑to‑end verification).
• Strong cutover, acceptance testing and post‑deployment tuning experience in live environments.
• Proficiency with packet analysis and wireless validation tools (Wireshark/tcpdump, heatmapping).
• Excellent documentation, procurement liaison and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable expertise:

• CCNP/CCIE or equivalent advanced certification.
• SDA/SD‑Access, VXLAN/EVPN, Nexus/data‑centre integration.
• High‑density public Wi‑Fi, OT/IoT/BMS segmentation experience.
• Prior work under local government procurement and building‑code frameworks.

Please apply now or contact Cheska Mitra, Delivery Consultant @ Talent Street on  cmitra@talentstreet.com.au for further information. 

Role: Microsoft Hybrid Identity Engineer

Location: Hervey Bay, Queensland (ideally onsite but will consider options for the right candidate – must be onsite for cutovers and commissioning)

Duration: Contract – 24 months   

Talent Street is looking for a Microsoft Hybrid Identity Engineer for one of our clients in the local government in Hervey Bay QLD.

About the role:  

Work as a contractor delivering targeted, project-based modernisation; leading hybrid identity, name‑services and server platform renewals that replace ageing on‑prem systems with secure, cloud‑ready solutions.

This engagement focuses on migrations, re-architecture, disaster recovery, PKI, Azure DNS/DHCP, observability (including open‑source stacks), HCI server migrations and Azure ARC onboarding — all delivered to public‑sector standards.

Consider this role if you enjoy:

• Delivering measurable public value by modernising infrastructure that supports council services used by residents and staff every day.
• Working on a technically broad, high‑visibility programme that spans identity, PKI, DNS/DHCP, Azure DR, HCI and observability.
• Short‑term, high‑impact engagement with clear milestones, autonomy and opportunity to shape long‑term council infrastructure.
• The potential for further work across the council’s digital programme.

Required experience and skills:

• Proven track record delivering hybrid Active Directory and Azure Entra Directory migrations/re-architectures in production environments.
• Hands‑on experience with AD Connect, federation or modern authentication strategies and troubleshooting directory syncs.
• Demonstrated service‑account and privileged credential modernisation, including managed identities.
• Practical PKI experience: CA hierarchy, templates, issuance/renewal automation and revocation practices.
• Experience architecting Azure disaster recovery to run essential services; testing failover and restore procedures.
• Server migration experience on hyperconverged platforms (e.g., VMware (vSphere), Nutanix, HPE SimpliVity, vSAN) and Azure ARC onboarding.
• Extensive experience with Azure DNS and Azure DHCP, zone architecture, split‑DNS and DHCP scope/IPAM design.
• Strong observability skills with Azure Monitor/Log Analytics and open‑source stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Open Telemetry).
• Scripting and automation: PowerShell, Azure CLI, ARM/Bicep, Terraform or equivalent.
• Excellent documentation, procurement support experience and stakeholder management in public‑sector contexts.
• Ability to work autonomously as a contractor while collaborating with council teams and external suppliers.

Desirable experience and skills:

• Microsoft certifications (Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, Microsoft 365 Identity).
• Experience with PAM, IGA, SCIM provisioning and migrating apps to OAuth2/OIDC.
• Prior contracting work within local or state government and familiarity with public‑sector procurement and audit requirements.

Please apply now or contact Cheska Mitra, Delivery Consultant @ Talent Street on  cmitra@talentstreet.com.au for further information.