Network Technician

Overview

Amentum is a leader in global engineering, project management and solutions integration, trusted to modernise the most critical missions anywhere in the world. We are driven to create a safer, smarter, cleaner world and innovate as a team of inventive doers passionate about making a difference. Amentum is committed to ethics, safety and inclusivity, operational excellence and successful execution.

Are you seeking a career that offers a healthy work-life balance, a friendly company culture, and engagement with a supportive community? We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer opportunities to develop your career within a diverse team that strives to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities. People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. Our values are safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity, and we believe success comes from supporting one another through a culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please refer to our Enterprise Agreement and www.fairwork.gov.au for more information.

Role

Role Title: Network Technician

Role Description: This function will work under limited direction to perform and achieve moderately complex tasks within an integrated ADF workforce. They will liaise with stakeholders of all levels, building good working relationships and providing a point of contact for enquiries.

Responsibilities

- Deliver engineering and technical expertise to facilitate efficient and effective conduct of events in accordance with the Event schedule.
- Actively participate in exercise planning conferences.
- Manage the schedule for ADF Operations including resource management.
- Develop documents for Operations.
- Mentor and develop junior staff to provide redundancy of resources.
- Simulation software/network technical support with complex engineering systems.
- Integration of components, systems and sub-systems including new acquisitions.
- Undertake system modelling and develop system architecture using digital software and tools.
- Documentation and maintenance of configuration status (baselining documentation with system configuration).
- Establishing and implementing change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and successful changes to the network infrastructure.
- Modification of the system architecture comprising hardware, software, network protocol and documentation suite.
- System administrator responsibilities including failure mode analysis and resolution and operator access for event conduct.
- Provision of systems administration support including service pack releases, patches, hot fixes and security configuration.
- Coordination of Test and Evaluation to support integration of distributed training connections across multiple Australian Defence Force Units and coalition partners.
- Support maintenance of ICT Security accreditation.
- Exercise support including efficient and effective engineering/technical support to synthetic and blended exercises.
- Monitoring system performance, resource utilisation and capacity ensuring availability and reliability.
- Obsolescence management to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Provide coaching, mentoring and advice to ADF personnel and other system users.

Qualifications

- Experience in networking and systems architecture.
- Systems administration experience.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to prioritise and adapt to changing work demands.
- Ability to support overseas exercises, including during US time zones.

Additional Details

Salary Range: Depending on Experience: $160-190k package

Required Security Clearance Level: NV1

Location: HMAS Kuttabul (Sydney)

Weekly Hours: 40 hours, ability to be flexible around US time zones for exercise periods which could include overnight activities.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or related conditions, age, ancestry, veteran status, color, religion, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, or mental or physical disability, so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal laws and supplemental language at Labor Laws Posters (https://postings.govdocs.com/#/vxSkbztPuAwwxfs).

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