Network Engineer — Live-On Island

RPMGlobal; Whitsunday Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff accommodation

Dining discounts

Health & travel insurance discounts

Family & Friends rates

Job summary

Hamilton Island is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join our Information Technology team on site. This hands-on role ensures network availability across Hamilton Island and other locations, implementing changes and upgrades per priority and standards.

You will support long-term planning for cloud migration, maintain business continuity, and assist Help Desk during busy periods, including after-hours support and incident response.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in network infrastructure.
• Significant IT industry knowledge.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of systems infrastructure.
• Project Management qualifications (Desirable).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, friendly and enthusiastic attitude, reliable and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Triage and resolve issues impacting network service across Hamilton Island and other locations.
• Implement network changes and upgrades across LAN, WAN, WiFi, firewalls, routers, switches (core and edge), hubs and cabling.
• Monitor internet gateway access and performance, plus measurements, reporting and alerts.
• Apply network protocols and security across TCP/IP, routing, VPNs and OSI layers 1 to 5.
• Lead the project lifecycle: build business cases, plan schedules and resources, maintain risk and issue registers, act as Change Manager, coordinate testing and stakeholder sign-off, hand over to support, and decommission/archive redundant systems.
• Manage vendor relationships: maintain relationships, monitor performance and costs, track releases and updates, and refine agreements.
• Assist with day-to-day work orders according to business priority and team workload.
• Evaluate new technology to identify business improvements.
• Support the Help Desk during busy periods and participate in the after hours support roster.

Skills

Network infrastructure experience

IT industry knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Degree qualified in a related discipline

Job description

Hamilton Island is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join our Information Technology team on site. This hands-on role ensures network availability across Hamilton Island and other locations, implementing changes and upgrades per priority and standards.

You will support long-term planning for cloud migration, maintain business continuity, and assist Help Desk during busy periods, including after-hours support and incident response.