Hybrid Cloud Specialist

About the role

Hancock Iron Ore is looking for a Hybrid Cloud Specialist to join its Technology Operations team in West Perth, reporting to the Manager Hybrid Cloud. The role helps modernise the infrastructure and hosting platforms that support the company's technology environment, working across on-premises infrastructure and cloud. It suits an experienced systems administrator or infrastructure engineer who enjoys solving technical problems, automating repetitive work and building capability in modern infrastructure engineering and cloud technologies.

Key responsibilities

• Drive the modernisation of hybrid cloud and hosting platforms, improving reliability, security, scalability and supportability.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), scripting and automation to streamline how infrastructure is built, deployed and managed.
• Build reusable automation, tooling and deployment patterns for consistent, repeatable infrastructure environments.
• Apply modern DevOps and platform engineering practices to improve infrastructure delivery, operations and lifecycle management.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across infrastructure projects, working with architects, engineers, vendors and delivery partners.
• Help move suitable workloads and services to cloud platforms and reduce legacy infrastructure and technical debt.
• Explore automation, AI-enabled capabilities and emerging technologies and share knowledge across the team.

Required profile

• Proven experience delivering and supporting enterprise hosting infrastructure, including virtualised, compute, storage, Windows Server and private cloud environments.
• Experience delivering infrastructure modernisation, lifecycle programs or major technology implementations in complex enterprise environments.
• Exposure to public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, including migration, modernisation or integration of workloads across hybrid cloud environments.
• Relevant technical qualifications or certifications in cloud, infrastructure, automation or DevOps; Azure, VMware, Terraform or Ansible certifications highly regarded.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise environments, with mining, resources or industrial technology exposure considered advantageous.
• Must be legally permitted to work permanently in Australia.

Required skills

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), scripting and automation with Terraform, Ansible and PowerShell.
• DevOps, CI/CD and platform engineering practices, including source control and Git-based development.

What we offer

• Company contribution to private health insurance.
• Bonuses based on performance, retention and profit share.
• Monday to Friday schedule at the West Perth location.