Lead Infrastructure Engineer Sydney (AU) • Melbourne (AU)

LGT is the largest Private Banking and Asset Management group in the world to be owned by an entrepreneurial family. As the family office of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, we have years of experience in the management of sizeable sums of assets.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering secure, resilient, and efficient technology solutions for our local business. Your leadership, expertise, and commitment to excellence will ensure the reliability of our infrastructure, the success of new solution delivery, and the protection of our enterprise technology environment.

This is a senior technical leadership position where you’ll guide a high-performing team, set standards, and drive innovation across infrastructure, operations, and cloud services.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight for infrastructure, network, and systems operations.

• Mentor, coach, and develop team members, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Prioritise and coordinate team activities in alignment with strategic goals.

• Act as the escalation point for high-impact incidents, leading root cause analysis and permanent resolutions.

• Own and review datacentre strategy, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and risk mitigation.

Infrastructure Operations & Administration

• Lead infrastructure operations across Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Windows/Linux servers.

• Uphold operational standards for server, storage, and network administration.

• Guide resolution of complex networking issues (LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, VLANs, firewalls).

• Oversee SharePoint environments, file services, and access controls.

• Drive excellence in patching, backup, disaster recovery, and observability practices.

• Collaborate with group technology teams on infrastructure projects and escalations.

Technical Support & SME

• Provide expert guidance for hosted finance applications (Dynamics, Avaloq) and critical business apps.

• Act as senior SME ensuring applications are current, secure, and aligned with business needs.

• Champion a security-first culture, leading adoption of group-wide security initiatives.

Testing, Deployment & DevOps

• Promote robust validation and testing practices for all changes and deployments.

• Ensure CI/CD, automation, and Infrastructure as Code standards are followed.

• Support adoption of group platforms (Azure, containers, IAM) while ensuring compliance.

Continuous Improvement & Documentation

• Proactively review systems and processes for efficiency, resilience, and security.

• Stay informed on industry trends and introduce innovations.

• Ensure documentation standards are upheld across configs, diagrams, and procedures.

About You

• 10+ years in systems/infrastructure engineering or similar technical operations role.

• Extensive experience in enterprise/financial services environments.

• Strong expertise in Microsoft 365, Windows/Linux server administration, virtualization, and enterprise networking.

• Proven ability to lead high-performing teams and align local objectives with global strategy.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation, Azure/cloud, and containerization.

• Familiarity with backup/recovery and disaster recovery planning/testing.

• Excellent communication skills with a strong service orientation.

What’s in it for You?

• Competitive salary package

• Discretionary bonus program

• Flexible working environment

• Employee Assistance Program, Health & Wellbeing initiatives

• Employee Referral Program