Senior Network Engineer

• 11-month contract with extension potential
• On-site/Hybrid
• Location: NSW- Nepean, Blue Mountains, Penrith region

Job Details

Our NSW State Gov client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Network Engineer for maintaining the design integrity and health of their network and to provide system support to the ICT Telecoms team and expert technical assistance, support and advice to team members with high-level systems and requests. The role plays the lead role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the client’s hybrid network. The role will be required to provide after-hours on-call rostered support that will require onsite support at facilities to resolve ICT emergencies.

Valid Driver’s licence Required.

Key Accountabilities:

• Propose, develop, and implement improvements, systems, and solutions to improve the client’s network and systems, ensuring system efficiency, minimising network downtime, and adhering to Service Level Agreements.

• Administration and Management of Network Services, including but not limited to DNS, DHCP, Equipment and Environment Monitoring in a mixed vendor environment comprising of but not limited to HP/Aruba, Palo Alto, and Cisco.

• Maintain expert industry knowledge of organisation technologies, including wired and wireless LAN, WAN, Routing and Switching, Systems Integration, Network Access Control, Network Security, Server Technologies and Telephony solutions for corporate and clinical environments to advise and assist with Solution Architecture for the Networks and Telecoms teams.

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive document library for the current network environment, ensuring data validity within the ICT CMDB. This includes fostering a positive team mindset regarding technical documentation, including mentoring and training team members.

• Plan, communicate and implement changes to the Network and Telecoms environment while contributing to the continual improvement of the Change Engagement process.

• Maintain a fit for a purpose network environment to meet current and future organisational needs via continuous monitoring, tracking, troubleshooting, and analysis of the client’s network infrastructure, systems, and data to prevent faults and downtime.

• Provide subject matter expertise to ICT projects and solution design activities.

• Develop, implement and manage networking and other ICT system security procedures to ensure alignment and compliance with industry best practices and policies.

• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the Client's ICT systems exceed end-user operational requirements.

• Oversee the evaluation of new hardware and software solutions, monitor the market for emerging technologies, and provide ICT Quality, Compliance Assurance and Acceptance Management for projects.

Essential Requirements for the Role:

• Aruba ACMP, ACSP or other equivalent recognised industry Network support certifications or relevant extensive industry experience in supporting and managing hybrid environments with vendors such as HP/Aruba, Cisco, Palo Alto.

• Proven ability to manage, maintain and support a wide range of technologies and equipment, including but not limited to IP, VRF, Switching and Routing Protocols (Spanning Tree, LACP, VLAN, QoS, BGP, OSPF), Switch Stacking, DNS, DHCP, SSO, Active Directory, Network Access Controllers, Mobility solutions, 802.11, VPN, Next Generation Firewalls, Telephony and related protocols including SIP and H323 and Digital Certificates in a mixed vendor environment.

• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication and reporting skills with the ability to adjust and translate complex technical concepts and issues to match the audience’s knowledge level.

• Experience in designing and delivering training and mentoring ICT staff.

• Extensive experience designing scalable and resilient wired and wireless network infrastructure with expertise in planning, implementing, and managing large projects in a challenging mission-critical environment with experience identifying aspects of a complex network environment that requires continuous improvements.

• Experience with delivering IT services using a service management framework such as ITIL to provide capacity, availability, problem and incident management using a service delivery mindset and customer experience focus.

• Experience in leading and managing network/infrastructure architecture and design workshops to identify suitable technical solutions in a technologically diverse environment.

• Demonstrated superior analytical, technical problem-solving and incident management skills.

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