Role: Technical Network Engineer – Cisco Projects Lead
Location: Hervey Bay, Queensland
Duration: Contract – 12 months
Talent Street is looking for a Technical Network Engineer for one of our clients in the local government in Hervey Bay QLD.
Required experience and skills:
* Minimum CCNA; CCNP or equivalent preferred.
* 5+ years delivering Cisco network projects (Catalyst, Nexus, ISE, DNA/Catalyst Center) with multi‑floor or multi‑site build experience.
* Proven Layer‑3 architecture skills: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and HA aggregation topologies.
* Experience designing and validating structured cabling and fibre backbones, PoE and comms‑room planning.
* Practical Cisco ISE design and enforcement (802.1X, MAB, guest access).
* Demonstrated experience delivering WAN fibre projects and conducting fibre audits (OTDR/LL testing, end‑to‑end verification).
* Strong cutover, acceptance testing and post‑deployment tuning experience in live environments.
* Proficiency with packet analysis and wireless validation tools (Wireshark/tcpdump, heatmapping).
* Excellent documentation, procurement liaison and stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable expertise:
* CCNP/CCIE or equivalent advanced certification.
* SDA/SD‑Access, VXLAN/EVPN, Nexus/data‑centre integration.
* High‑density public Wi‑Fi, OT/IoT/BMS segmentation experience.
* Prior work under local government procurement and building‑code frameworks.
Please apply now or contact Cheska Mitra, Delivery Consultant @ Talent Street on for further information.