EMPLOYMENT

The Environment Lead leads the strategic planning, governance, and optimisation of complex, multi-platform development and testing environments across the Bureau's enterprise systems. This role is pivotal in ensuring the alignment of environment provisioning with agency-wide priorities, enabling secure, scalable, and high-performing platforms that support mission-critical operations. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the Environment Lead drives innovation in environment lifecycle management, leads cross-functional initiatives, and provides authoritative advice to senior stakeholders. The role influences infrastructure strategy, risk mitigation, and compliance with national security and operational standards. We are seeking an experienced and proactive Environment Lead to lead the delivery and coordination of IT environments that support the Bureau of Meteorology's application development and testing activities. This role is critical in ensuring that application development and support teams have access to stable, scalable, and fit-for-purpose environments throughout the software delivery lifecycle. As part of a team of Environment Leads, you will oversee the planning, provisioning, and maintenance of non-production environments, working closely with your immediate colleagues and other technical teams to align infrastructure capabilities with project and operational needs. A key focus of this role is capacity planning-encompassing current usage reporting, forecasting, and strategic planning to meet future demand. To be successful in this role, you will bring: • Proven experience coordinating change approvals and implementing environment patching, builds and other updates in alignment with change management processes. • Strong capability in triaging, addressing and supporting non-production incidents and service requests of a technical nature, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption. • Excellent communication skills to manage environment-related updates, stakeholder engagement, and cross-team coordination. • Demonstrated ability to produce and interpret capacity reports, with experience in forecasting to support strategic planning. • Experience in provisioning users to non-production environments, ensuring appropriate access and compliance with organisational policies. • Solid understanding of Active Directory (AD) management, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). • Ability to triage environment defects and coordinate fixes across technical teams to maintain environment stability. • Familiarity with secure sourcing practices for software and data, including from external internet sources and legacy systems. • A proactive and detail-oriented approach to environment management, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security. • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team environment. • Certificate management The key duties of the position include 1. Lead the day-to-day management of non-production environments, including provisioning, configuration, patching, and decommissioning of infrastructure to support development and testing activities. 2. Oversee and participate in change management processes, ensuring all environment changes are assessed, approved, and implemented with minimal risk to ongoing work. 3. Coordinate and support incident response for environment-related issues, including root cause analysis, resolution tracking, and communication with impacted stakeholders. 4. Manage and maintain Active Directory (AD) structures for non-production environments, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and user provisioning workflows. 5. Maintain capacity planning dashboards and reports, using monitoring tools and data analysis to forecast infrastructure needs and support resource planning. 6. Work closely with infrastructure and architecture teams to securely source software and data from external internet sources and legacy systems, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity policies. 7. Lead triage and coordination of environment defects, working with developers, testers, and platform teams to prioritise and resolve issues efficiently. 8. Maintain environment documentation, including as-built documentation, configuration baselines, access controls, and operational procedures. 9. Drive automation and standardisation of environment setup and maintenance using tools such as Ansible. 10. Act as a technical liaison between application teams, infrastructure services, and external vendors to ensure environment readiness and alignment with project timelines.