We are seeking experienced Server Engineers with the requisite skills and experience who are excited about applying their skills across a variety of operational and corporate technology areas in a fast-paced and complex global environment. These roles will see you providing essential services to ASIS as you work within highly experienced teams.
The key duties of the position include:
The role
We are seeking experienced Server Engineers with the requisite skills and experience who are excited about applying their skills across a variety of operational and corporate technology areas in a fast-paced and complex global environment. These roles will see you providing essential services to ASIS as you work within highly experienced teams.
You will be provided with training, support and mentorship required to develop and grow your skills to further your career. This role will include an on-call roster for out-of-hours technical response and the opportunity for domestic and overseas travel.
A Level 6 candidate would be expected to have more than 2 years of experience and operate with a high level of autonomy within the infrastructure team.
An Executive Level 1 candidate would be expected to have more specialised technical knowledge and experience with leading solutions.
Role responsibilities
Outlined below are the key areas of responsibility for L6 Server Engineers:
· Sustain, enhance and manage critical infrastructure in desktop, SOE, server, virtualization, cloud environments and data communications network environments.
· Diagnose and resolve problems quickly and be able to communicate outcomes with technical and non-technical users.
· Be willing to learn new technologies and work collaboratively in a team environment.
· Support senior engineers with design, build and test of network components.
· Assess, automate and simplify workloads where possible.
· You will be provided with training, support and mentorship to develop and grow your skills to further your career. Both roles include an on-call roster for out-of-hours technical response and the opportunity for domestic and overseas travel.
Outlined below are the key areas of responsibility for Executive Level 1 Server Engineer:
· Provide operational support and improvements to ICT Infrastructure, which may include:
· Conduct research, analysis, planning, monitoring and maintenance of ICT systems
· Undertake installation work, both in Australia and Overseas
· Provide after-hours support to users as part of rostered On-call arrangements.
· Lead development or support activities within a team environment
· Review, design, update and build documentation
· Support and manage organisation priorities and effort
· Support Senior Infrastructure Engineers with technical design planning and implementation
· Use monitoring and management tools to support performance, availability and capacity planning
· Provide subject matter expertise to team members and advice to senior management and other staff in the development of new capabilities
Core skills
We encourage applicants with the following skills and attributes to apply:
· VMWare software defined environments, containerisation, hyper-converged Datacenters
· Enterprise Active Directory forests, audio visual conferencing, messaging, end user systems, desktops and SOEs, file services, unified communications, gateway engineering and support, exchange management and remote branch office solutions
· Cloud engineer with experience deploying IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms (Google, Amazon, Microsoft)
· Server management experience, ideally management of physical data centre infrastructure.
· Environment patching, firmware upgrades, monitoring systems for capacity consumption and planning, and environment trending
· Automation and scripting using tools such as PowerShell
Experience in the following would be beneficial, but not essential:
· Infrastructure as code (on premise and cloud) including automated infrastructure deployment tools CI-CD Pipelines.
Eligibility
To be eligible for a role you must:
· Be an Australian citizen
· Be assessed as suitable to hold and maintain a TOP SECRET-Privileged Access security clearance
· For more information on eligibility please see the Protective Security Policy Framework which is publicly, section 12 provides information on Eligibility and suitability
Notes
ASIS values workplace diversity and is committed to providing a supportive, inclusive and respective work environment. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Women, people with disabilities, people that identify as LGBTIQ+ and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Please note: ASIS does not provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants
To apply please visit the ASIS website to view further job details and selection criteria
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