Senior Network Engineer

• Opportunity to work with one of the largest General Insurer in Australia
• Hybrid working arrangement - work from home and our state of art North Sydney office
• Strong IT Infrastructure and network design experience is needed

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and one of Australia's largest general insurers Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, bicycle and pet, in proud partnership with some of Australia's biggest consumer brands and broker businesses. As an independent and privately owned company, we believe we can go further together – for our people, customers, communities and partners – through an innovative approach to providing insurance.

Our state-of-the-art facilities in North Sydney reflect our commitment to providing innovative workspaces that support hybrid and remote work.

Your Team:

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary technology team, and work closely with our customers (business, software vendors and partners). Within the team, you will be responsible for operations engineering and will participate in all aspects from design to testing and implementation.

Your Role:

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will have primary responsibility for operations engineering to deliver ongoing operational and business initiative outcomes. You will be providing technical support to your team and other IT product teams to deliver services and changes across Hollard's IT ecosystem, which includes third-party cloud hosted IT platforms, in-house managed cloud, and local data centre IT platforms.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Plan and drive technical changes of IT infrastructure and network services in alignment to business and technology outcomes, including related security changes
• Manage and support all network related infrastructure
• Play a key role in recovering services in the event of failure and manage vendor relationships

• Promote adherence to engineering standards and best practices

• Assist root-cause analysis of support incidents and issues

• Identify, analyse, and support the resolution of application issues with internal and external parties

Your knowledge & experience:

• Must have extensive experience in technical implementation with relevant focus in IT infrastructure/ network and cloud technologies
• Good understanding of LAN, WAN, VPNs, and cloud networking is required
• Good knowledge of firewall configurations, intrusion detection, and cybersecurity best practices
• Hands-on experience in writing scripts with Python, Bash, or PowerShell for network automation is required
• Ability to analyse network issues using tools like Wireshark and SolarWinds
• Experience with Azure, VMware, and SD-WAN technologies

Working at Hollard

At Hollard, you'll discover an environment where you can truly make an impact. We offer the best of both worlds – the opportunity, agility and creativity of a company growing with scale, alongside a focus on becoming a catalyst for enduring, positive, social change.

We're a tight-knit team, where authentic voices and unique perspectives matter. We work supportively, collaboratively and inclusively to help shape our future and create shared value for our communities.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance. We're also unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences, including as it relates to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity.

We're building something special. Working closely with our industry partners to reshape insurance for the better, we're people changing insurance.

Please note: Even if you don't meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply.

A full background check will be completed on the successful applicant.

Australian work rights are required for this position.

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