EL 1 - Senior Systems Administrator, Technology Operations

1 month ago


Canberra, Australia National Library of Australia Full time
  • Ongoing opportunity to work at one of Australia's national cultural institutions
  • Use your technical knowledge and leadership skills to support the Technical Operations team
  • Work in a dynamic and collaborative environment

As a world leading library, the National Library of Australia offers an innovative and collaborative workplace where exceptional team players and technical specialists can flourish. As part of the Library’s team, you will help support organisational reform, working collaboratively with your team to shape the Library’s future. 

The Library is seeking to fill the ongoing role of Senior Systems Administrator (EL 1) within the Technology Operations Section as a part of the Digital Branch. Whilst this is a specialist technical role, it is a senior role, and it forms part of the Section’s leadership team. 

As the Senior Systems Administrator you will develop, administer and maintain VMWare virtual infrastructure, including storage and network components. You will manage and support business continuity/disaster recovery infrastructure and will collaborate with Technology Operations subject matter experts, and external vendors to install, upgrade, configure, tune and troubleshoot Virtual Infrastructure.

Our ideal candidate will be a team player who has a confident and engaging personality and thrives in a fast-paced troubleshooting role to provide exceptional customer service.

You will have excellent communication and collaboration skills, essential for leading a team and collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders. It will be essential to understand their individual needs, interests, and concerns to achieve successful outcomes.

This role will ideally suit someone who has extensive subject matter expertise relevant to supporting and maintaining the NLA systems and infrastructure. This includes one or more of the following: server, storage, virtual, networks, databases, BCP and cloud as relevant to role requirements.

Tertiary qualifications and/or specific certifications/technical training in an IT related specialisation will also be highly regarded.

We encourage and welcome applications from people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQA+ people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and mature age people.

A merit pool may be established from this recruitment activity which may be used to fill similar vacancies.

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