Senior Enterprise Services Engineer

Adelaide Airport Ltd (AAL) is an internationally recognised and award-winning employer of choice in the dynamic aviation industry. The gateway to South Australia, Adelaide Airport is the fifth-largest airport in Australia and is committed to on-going developments that seamlessly connect the world to South Australia. It is an un-listed public company owned by long term superannuation funds.

AAL is a major business centre and is executing its vision to be a globally connected, next generation hub offering a unique sense of place to its partners. AAL has recently announced $1billion in capital investment over the next five years, covering both significant aviation and technology infrastructure upgrades in addition to some exciting commercial property developments across both our Adelaide and Parafield Airport sites.

AAL employs a highly engaged workforce recognised for delivering exceptional outcomes. Identifying, supporting and encouraging leadership and innovation, AAL is a proven leader in sustainability, supporting diversity and inclusion and offering flexible workplace arrangements.

As a Senior Enterprise Services Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping, securing and supporting the technology that underpins AAL’s mission-critical operations. Bringing deep infrastructure expertise and a passion for innovation, you will take ownership of delivering secure, resilient and high-performing solutions that keep the business running. Working collaboratively with a skilled technology team, you will turn complex challenges into practical outcomes, drive continuous improvement and help build the future of AAL’s technology environment.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead technology innovation: Drive the adoption of new technologies and contribute strategic thinking to enhance AAL’s technology environment.
• Manage enterprise infrastructure: Design, provision, support and maintain physical and virtual server infrastructure, including enterprise storage and backup solutions.
• Maintain security and resilience: Ensure systems are secure, hardened, regularly patched and monitored to support a highly available and resilient environment.
• Support cloud infrastructure: Administer and support AAL’s cloud environment, including Azure, while working collaboratively with other technical teams to secure access.
• Deliver critical technology projects: Drive the successful delivery of business and Secure IT projects, ensuring solutions meet operational and business requirements.
• Strengthen disaster recovery and cyber security: Maintain and test disaster recovery procedures, contribute to risk management and business continuity reviews, and support the ongoing improvement of AAL’s cyber security posture.
• Provide technical leadership: Mentor team members, share technical expertise, build strong stakeholder relationships and champion best practices across the Secure IT team.

Key requirements include:

• Extensive Active Directory or Entra experience: A minimum of 10 years’ experience with Microsoft Active Directory or Entra.
• Strong virtualisation expertise: At least 10 years’ experience working with virtualisation technologies.

• Azure administration experience: A minimum of 5 years’ experience administering Azure environments.
• Enterprise infrastructure expertise: At least 10 years’ experience with enterprise server, storage and backup technologies.
• Critical infrastructure experience: Experience working within a technology team in a complex or mission-critical infrastructure organisation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills: The ability to communicate complex technical concepts in clear business language, build effective relationships and work collaboratively in a high-pressure environment.
• A proactive, accountable mindset: Demonstrated ownership, critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a commitment to continuous improvement, security and operational excellence. Relevant qualifications or certifications are desirable, either completed or in progress, alongside essential industry experience.

Overall, you will be a self-motivated Senior Enterprise Services Engineer with the ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and decision-makers. Your professionalism, integrity, and commitment to excellence will be evident through your consistent delivery of high-quality project outcomes. This role plays a pivotal part in supporting an organisation dedicated to quality, integrity, and fostering an inclusive and supportive working environment.

To apply please click apply or call our team on 08 8216 3500 for a confidential discussion.