Lead, Network Planning Engineer

Harris Geospatial Solutions; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave + flexible hours

Salary continuance insurance

Flexible working hours

Private health insurance

Novated Car Leasing

Professional development programs

Retail reward programs

Job summary

L3Harris Australia seeks an experienced Network Engineering Lead to support the ENMP network modernization. Based in Melbourne, you will lead engineering, design and implementation across teams, taking responsibility for deployment and transition of enterprise network services.

You will coordinate with stakeholders, develop strategies, and ensure compliance with program requirements. This role offers challenging, impactful work within a dedicated team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required; master’s preferred.
• 8+ years in enterprise networks—analyzing, configuring, troubleshooting, designing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Network Engineering, Design Office and Implementation teams.
• Develop implementation strategies and engineering solutions for deployment and transition.
• Coordinate engineering, design and implementation across dispersed locations.
• Travel within Australia for coordination and site audits.

Skills

Enterprise networks

Network engineering

Cisco routing

WAN architectures

TCP/IP

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

About the role:

L3Harris is seeking an experienced Network Engineering Lead to support our Australia-based Managed Services program. This is an important role focusing on the planning, implementation and transition of a large network in support of the overall program delivery and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

This role provides leadership across the Network Engineering, Design Office and Implementation teams, translating L3Harris's previous experience standing up managed network services programs through development, deployment and transition into operational service. The successful candidate will be responsible for the execution of engineering and implementation activities supporting the delivery of enterprise network infrastructure and services to the customer.

This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, expand your skillset and experience, and significantly contribute to an enterprise network modernisation initiative that will make a significant impact to Australia's air traffic management and for the flying public. You will join a team of talented professionals who take a collaborative approach, are passionate about the mission, and take pride in what we deliver every day. We are a company on the move with more than five decades of innovative and exceptional performance; we have earned our place as a trusted provider to our customers.

What the role will involve:

The successful candidate will support the Engineering team, leading the implementation activities associated with the delivery, deployment and transition of the ENMP network capability.

As an Air Navigation Services Provider (ANSP), this position requires an Airservices background check with duties to include:

• Lead the Network Engineering, Design Office and Implementation teams responsible for the delivery of enterprise network services and infrastructure.
• Develop implementation strategies, technical direction and engineering solutions supporting the deployment and transition of services from the existing network to the new operational network environment.
• Lead the development and execution of implementation, migration and transition plans.
• Provide technical leadership for the establishment and implementation of end-to-end network, infrastructure and security solutions.
• Coordinate engineering, design and implementation activities across geographically dispersed customer locations.
• Support the preparation and delivery of detailed designs including interconnection diagrams, rack layouts, bills of material and implementation documentation.
• Work with Systems Engineering, Security Engineering, Safety Engineering and Verification & Validation teams to ensure solutions meet program requirements and compliance objectives.
• Participate in design reviews, implementation reviews, test readiness reviews, transition readiness reviews and In-Service activities to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Partner with program, operational and engineering stakeholders to ensure performance requirements are met throughout the implementation process.
• Work with Network Management and Operations teams to ensure tools, processes and procedures required to manage, monitor and report network performance are configured and operationally ready.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders, suppliers and service providers to support successful program outcomes.
• Effectively communicate implementation progress, technical risks, deployment constraints and schedule impacts to internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage engineering, implementation, schedule and operational risks throughout the program lifecycle.
• Travel will be required within Australia to facilitate customer and partner coordination as well as support remote site audits and implementation activities.

Whatyou’llbring

• Bachelor’s Degree, master’s degree preferred.
• 8 or more years of relevant job experience including analyzing, configuring, troubleshooting, designing complex enterprise networks
• 4+ years of experience as an engineer on large electronic systems integration projects;
• 4+ years domain knowledge of the Telecommunications industry, including carrier services, provisioning terminology, CISCO routers and network infrastructure.
• Understanding of WAN architectures (e.g. MPLS with Segment Routing and SD-WAN, VXLAN & MPN methods), and complex routing and switching
• Strong familiarity with Routers (Cisco ISRs, F5, Juniper CPT and Cisco NCSs) and Firewalls (Cisco ASA and Palo Alto is desirable)
• Understands signaling protocols, TDM framing/timing, WAN/LAN, TCP/IP, ATM and specific routing protocols such as IS-IS, BGP and OSPF, VoIP, DWDM, CTI and VPN technologies
• Thorough understanding of most enterprise IPv4 protocols and emerging IPv6 deployments
• 4+ years of experience with customer requirements reviews, design reviews and/or test and acceptance events with the customer;

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Possess an intermediate (CCNA certification, CCNP is Preferred or equivalent experience) level of experience troubleshooting IP network configurations.
• Experience working as an engineer on delivery of a Defence, or mission critical capability;
• Experience with part or full systems engineering lifecycle / systems engineering methodology, i.e. customer needs, system requirements, system design and/or system test;
• Experience with Security and Safety programs will be well regarded
• Experience in a multi-disciplined engineering environment.
• Experience with engineering drawing tools such as AutoCAD and Visio
• Experience in Voice Communications Systems, Radios, Telephony (VoIP, analog or digital);
• Other less relevant but adjacent competencies such as programming/coding, electronics projects, ICT skills, hardware development, project management are also beneficial.

About L3Harris Australia

L3Harris has provided advanced technology solutions to government and commercial customers across Australia for more than 25 years. L3Harris has facilities in all major cities and employs over 500 people.

L3Harris in Melbourne is the base for our Enterprise NetworkModernisationProgram (ENMP) for Airservices Australia. In partnership with Airservices, L3Harris will lead a consortium to plan and design an integrated, enterprise system to support all telecommunications, radio communications, ADS-B surveillance and network services for the National Airways System, including support for civil aviation, and aviation rescue and firefighting services.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Anadditionalweek of leave per annum plus theoptionto buy or sell up to 2weeksadditionalannual leave.
• Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to 2 years)
• Flexible working hours and patterns depending on location
• Discounted private health insurance
• Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
• Novated Car Leasing
• Company supported professional development programs
• Retail Reward programs

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require an Australian citizenship and will require the successful candidate to successfully apply and hold an AustralianDefenceSecurity Clearance and/or be assessed to work with ITAR information.Please answer the pre-screening questions upon applying for this assessment.

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail]

L3Harris respectfully requests no agency submissions at this time.

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.