Specialist Servers and Storage

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

• Join a global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities

• Flexible working arrangements available, including work from home and flexible start/finish times

• Role based in our Perth Operations Centre

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Servers and Storage Specialist to support and evolve critical OT compute and storage environments that underpin Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s operations.

This is a great opportunity for a hands-on, technically strong infrastructure engineer to take ownership of essential systems and contribute to automation and modernisation initiatives within a complex operational environment.

Reporting to the Superintendent of Process Control Systems and working in a high-performing, collaborative team within Process Control Infrastructure, you will:

• Administer and support on-premises OT compute and storage platforms across multiple operational sites

• Support VMware and Microsoft Active Directory environments, ensuring stability, performance, and adherence to standards

• Own and manage existing custom scripts, including assessing, maintaining, refactoring, and improving resilience

• Provide lifecycle support for operational tools including secure file transfer platforms and asset discovery/reporting tools

• Drive automation opportunities, identifying efficiency gains and introducing tools such as Ansible or similar

• Contribute to infrastructure projects, including technical input, implementation, troubleshooting, and documentation

About you

To be considered for this opportunity, you must be able to demonstrate:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Strong hands-on experience with VMware and Microsoft Active Directory

• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure in production-critical environments

• Experience managing or supporting scripting solutions (PowerShell, VB, or similar)

• Experience working with secure file transfer platforms (e.g. Go Anywhere or similar)

• A mindset of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

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 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

• Career development opportunities to pursue your professional goals

• Access to employee assistance programs and wellbeing support

• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance

Where you’ll be working

You will be based at the Perth Operations Centre (POC), a state-of-the-art facility that leverages technology and innovation to remotely operate and monitor Rio Tinto’s world-class iron ore operations across the Pilbara. The POC offers a collaborative, technology-driven environment where you can directly impact operational performance and efficiency at scale.

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About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

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.