Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 3-5 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: Accept during COVID-19 restrictions only
Required, significant experience as a practitioner in network engineering to start in a Government role asap
Your new company
In this Government role you will effectively manage, monitor and design wired and wireless Network Infrastructure (LAN/WAN) to achieve reliable and robust performance as well as respond to user requests and maintain appropriate network security at network boundaries. You will take responsibility for improving quality processes using continuous improvement philosophies and practices, thereby increasing value to the customers and the organisation
Your new role
Assist Network Team Lead and department leaders to assess short and long-term network capacity needs
Support and enhance IT network operations in order to maintain a competitive service for the business
Proactively perform Demand management, Capacity Planning management and threshold management across network infrastructure and recommend growth forecasts for management consideration, including network bandwidth, hardware capacity and feature enhancement
Under approval of Network Team Lead, design and manage systems to proactively monitor Networking load and availability
Maintain Cabling Standards and keep up-to-date and accurate records across all sites for network connections
Develop detailed and accurate network architecture plans, configuration documents, security assessments as required by Network Team Lead
Design and engineer LAN/WAN infrastructure to meet the current and proposed demands of the network as required by Network Team Lead
Manage the installation, upgrade, configuration and support of enterprise wide networking systems to maintain network infrastructure in an effective and sustainable manner
Monitor and test network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports
Participate in managing all network security solutions
What you'll need to succeed
Significant experience as a practitioner in network engineering environment which is supported by an appropriate tertiary or industry qualification in Information Technology or related field
Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) or equivalent experience
Demonstrated experience in a network infrastructure, LAN/WAN management, network monitoring (Solarwinds) and alerting and capacity planning.
Demonstrated experience in design, maintenance and optimisation of Cisco routers, switches, wireless access points / controllers, ASA and FTD Security platforms & ISE.
Strong experience with routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP), hardware-based VPN technology, APN, MPLS and Ethernet access technologies, and NAC
Strong documentation skills using MS Office products including Microsoft Visio
Thorough technical understanding of new/emerging network technologies and the business drivers behind them
Basic understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems installed in a virtualised environment
ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in Service Management preferred
