- Be part of a growing mining company with a portfolio of international operations and projects
- Drive reliability, security, and scalability across core infrastructure systems.
- Work within the Corporate Office in the James Street precinct in a 2 Year Fixed Term position
PanAust Limited (“PanAust”) is an Australian-headquartered copper and gold producer in Laos, with pre-development and exploration assets in Laos, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Chile. Reporting directly to the Group IT Manager, this is an opportunity to join PanAust during an exciting period of revitalising its development opportunity pipeline.
Our Assets
In Laos, PanAust’s subsidiary, Phu Bia Mining Limited, operates the Phu Kham Copper-Gold and Ban Houayxai Gold-Silver Operations. Both are world-class, award-winning operations with strong operational, safety and sustainability credentials.
In PNG, PanAust owns the Frieda River Copper-Gold Project, one of the world’s largest known undeveloped copper and gold deposits. The project will help supply the copper required to facilitate the renewable energy transition. Frieda River is a sustainable, nation-building project which includes the development of a hydropower facility and public use infrastructure that will advance one of the least developed regions in PNG.
In Chile, PanAust owns 100% of the Carmen copper gold project and 66% of the Inca de Oro copper gold project. Both are promising pre-development assets, which are being progressed by PanAust.
The Role
The Principal Infrastructure Architect plays a strategic, and technical leadership role, in designing and overseeing the implementation of robust, scalable, and secure IT and OT infrastructure across PanAust operations in Laos, PNG, Australia and Chile. This includes servers, storage, cloud platforms, networking, communications, and operational technologies.
The role, which is a 2 year fixed-term position, ensures alignment of infrastructure solutions with business goals, operational continuity, and industry best practices—particularly within the demanding, remote, and safety-critical contexts of mining operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy and roadmap
- Design hybrid cloud and on-premises solutions that support mining applications, including SCADA, fleet management, and ERP systems
- Define reference architectures, technology standards, and integration patterns
- Lead high-level solution design for infrastructure projects and technology refresh programs
- Review and approve technical designs created by infrastructure engineers and vendors
- Guide the adoption of emerging technologies such as edge computing and industrial IoT
- Collaborate with project managers, business analysts, and technical team members to ensure infrastructure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications and costed solution designs
- Integrate cybersecurity, data protection, and compliance requirements into infrastructure designs (e.g. Essential 8, OT5, Mining-specific controls)
- Ensure appropriate network segmentation and remote site resilience to reduce operational risk
- Maintain architectural documentation, principles, and decision records
- Evaluate infrastructure health and performance, identifying opportunities for standardization and cost optimization
To be successful in this role, you will require:
- Minimum 10 years' experience in infrastructure or systems architecture roles
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, AWS/Azure Architect)
- Demonstrated experience designing complex IT/OT environments in industrial or mining settings
- Strong knowledge of networking, storage, compute, and virtualization technologies
- Proven experience with hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS) and edge computing
- Sound understanding of cybersecurity principles and infrastructure risk management
- Experience with mining systems (e.g. Jigsaw, GEOVIA, deswik, SAP)
- Understanding of automation, telemetry, or industrial control systems
- TOGAF or SABSA certification
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking and ability to align technology to business goals
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Analytical and problem-solving mindset
- Leadership in cross-functional technical teams
- Vendor and stakeholder negotiation skills
You must have full Australian working rights to apply for this role.
Why Join Us?
- Our Values: Our core values of Care, Leadership, Integrity and Performance and represent the foundations of our great culture.
- Remuneration: We offer a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package.
- Meaningful Work: The work we do is valuable and connects all of our employees through a shared vision and our values.
- Sustainability: We actively focus on our environmental footprint and build upon community development initiatives in communities where we operate.
PanAust is focussed on building a workforce that embraces diversity and inclusion, aiming to create an environment that brings us all together through connection, security and community and harnessing what makes us unique. As an Equal Opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome applications from all genders, abilities, generations and cultural backgrounds.
We are not working with agencies to recruit this role.
If you’d like to learn more about us, please visit www.PanAust.com.au
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