Senior Network Engineer – EL1 Equivalent

2 weeks ago

n Capital Territory, Australia IT Alliance Australia Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year

We're Hiring: Senior Network Engineer – EL1 Equivalent

Location:
Canberra, ACT |
Hybrid work

Contract Duration:
12 months (with up to 2 × 12-month extensions)

Clearance:
Must be able to obtain NV1 Security Clearance

Experience Level:
Senior – EL1 equivalent

About the Role

Federal Government is seeking an experienced
Senior Network Engineer
to provide high-level technical expertise, operational support, and future-proofing of's ICT network environments. This role is critical to ensuring network availability, performance, capacity, and compliance with Australian Government security standards.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Deliver support across Service Request, Change, Incident, Capacity & Performance, and Problem management.
  • Ensure ICT network availability, performance, and capacity requirements are consistently met.
  • Apply advanced technical expertise to validate and improve ICT environments.
  • Operate within a mature
    ITIL framework
    to maintain fit-for-purpose operational procedures.
  • Monitor, secure, and maintain network infrastructure in compliance with
    ISM
    and
    PSPF
    .
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including senior executives.
  • Provide technical knowledge sharing and support across the Infrastructure Operations team.
  • Participate in a
    24x7 on-call support roster
    .

Essential Criteria:

  1. Superior technical skills across broad network domains.
  2. Experience working in multi-vendor environments (HPE, Cisco, Fortinet, F5, Palo Alto).
  3. Proven ITIL leadership in administering network environments.
  4. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including senior stakeholders.
  5. Experience administering networks in compliance with the Information Security Manual (ISM).
  6. Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into delivered capabilities.

If you have the expertise to secure, optimise, and future-proof one of Australia's most important ICT network environments,
apply now
to

join high-performing Infrastructure Operations team.

If you want, I can also prepare the
1-page pitch
addressing all six essential criteria so it's ready for submission. That would be the document requires alongside the CV. Would you like me to draft that next?

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