Server and Storage Engineer - Active Directory

Specialist Servers & Storage – Microsoft Active Directory

• Join a high-tech team supporting some of the most leading-edge mining technology

• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected

• Permanent opportunity based in Perth Operations Centre

We are looking for an experienced Specialist Servers & Storage to work in the Infrastructure Operations IT team supporting Rio Tinto’s high-tech Iron ore business. Working among a team of engineering, software and technical professionals. The infrastructure solutions we develop and support host a wide range of technologies – from data historians, web-based applications, integration with and improvements to control systems, data analytics, stockpile management, system security and downtime/delay accounting systems.

Reporting to the Process Control Superintendent Server & Storage, you will be:

• Working within an IS&T systems engineering team to support the 30+ systems and applications used across our business
• Upgrading, developing and implementing new technology-based solutions
• Providing technical input to project scoping, planning and implementation phases
• Maintaining working relationships with team members to facilitate a culture of shared knowledge and common processes
• Creating and maintaining documentation for the systems and applications supported by the team
• Adhering to change management processes and trouble shoot breakdowns
• Facilitating transition to support activities from project to operational support teams

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Microsoft Certification in Servers (MCSA or MCSE or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with VMware ESXi, vCentre, VxRail, vSAN, vROPs
• Hands-on experience managing Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, Group Policies)
• Experience with Symantec End Point protection, GoAnywhere SFTP, Solarwind Orion, Azure Sentinel, Skyline
• Familiarities with Microsoft Azure and AWS
• Previous experience in a mine production environment and the ability to keep calm in an environment that can be periodically stressful
• Understand the value of customer service and have a sense of humor

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, best in industry paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability, and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.