Classification: Senior Officer Grade A
Salary: $172,246 plus superannuation
Position No: 71266
Directorate: Digital Canberra
Advertised (Gazettal date): 07 July 2026
Contact Officer: Jacinta Smith on [email protected] or (02) 6205 5219
Details: Digital Canberra is seeking an experienced and strategic technical leader to fill the role of Senior Director, Infrastructure Refresh within the Strategic IT Asset Management team.
This role provides whole-of-program technical leadership across ICT infrastructure, including server, storage, hosting, network and unified communications platforms. The position plays a critical role in ensuring infrastructure solutions are well-designed, scalable and aligned with operational and delivery requirements across ACT Government.
Acting as the lead technical authority for infrastructure design decisions, you will work across architecture, delivery teams and BAU operations to validate solution designs, support technology selection, and manage technical risks and dependencies across a complex portfolio of refresh activities.
You will provide independent, risk-aware technical advice, support market testing and procurement processes, and ensure consistency and quality across multiple infrastructure deployments. The role also contributes to capability uplift initiatives, aligning infrastructure with asset lifecycle management, service mapping and broader platform integration.
This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong engagement with technical SMEs, delivery teams and business stakeholders to ensure infrastructure outcomes are practical, sustainable and aligned to strategic objectives.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.
Eligibility/Other requirements: The successful applicant must be an Australian citizen and possess or acquire and maintain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) security clearance at the Negative Vetting 1 (NV1) level as an eligibility qualification. If AGSVA screening is not successful, your employment will not commence or, if already commenced, your employment will be reassessed.
Notes: Selection may be based on application and referee reports only. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.
How to Apply: Applicants are required to submit:
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A two-page pitch outlining their suitability for the role, addressing the capabilities in the Position Description
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A current curriculum vitae
Applications should be submitted .
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.
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