Job Role
The role of Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer involves implementing, managing and retiring the infrastructure that supports digital services.
This includes physical, virtual, networking and cloud infrastructure.
Duties And Responsibilities
* Design/evaluate/implement infrastructure requirements to meet future infrastructure demand
* Provide expert technical support for project build, test and solution deployment activities
* Prepare, review and maintain documentation including design documentation, implementation plans, test plans, and support procedures
* Assist in the development and implementation of strategies, operational policy and procedures and change initiatives
* Participate in change management process and communicate the end-to-end implications of configuration changes
* Provide detailed, specialist technical advice including strategic advice to senior executives
* Proactively share knowledge and expertise as the subject matter expert and aid and mentorship to less experienced colleagues
* Undertake research on emerging technologies and provide recommendations on product suitability for the agency
* Engage and partner with other agencies and service providers to build service delivery capability
* Attend interagency meetings and forums to influence business outcomes and share information
* Encourage innovation, continuous improvement and manage and support change and influence and contribute to ICT strategy resolving conflicts as needed
* Manage the operation of backup, high availability and disaster recovery solutions for IT systems
* Manage the regular maintenance of patches and support packages for all technical layers
* Manage the administration and operation of the Gateway network kit
Key Requirements
* At least five (5) years demonstrated experience in the design, management and maintenance of internet gateway and/or large scale data centre networking environment
* Demonstrated experience and technical proficiency in the design of services utilising F5/Blue Coat Layer 4-7 switching/load balancing and proxy systems
* Demonstrated experience in the design and deployment of network infrastructure including Cisco Data centre technologies like Cisco ACI, Cisco Routers, nexus switches, routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
* Demonstrated experience with and/or detailed understanding of Palo Alto firewalls and IPS Solutions
* Demonstrated experience in the design and implementation of VPN technologies, email and DNS (Infoblox) Solutions
* Demonstrated experience in the development and maintenance of system architecture and design documentation
* Demonstrated experience with or knowledge of Australian Government information security policies, the ASD Information Security Manual and Essential Eight