Senior Coalition Systems Engineer: Defence ICT Integration

SYPAQ Systems; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SYPAQ Systems is seeking a Coalition Services Engineer for an office-based role in Canberra. The successful candidate will apply systems engineering to integrate complex ICT systems, manage interfaces and risks, and engage with Defence and ICT partners while maintaining ISM-aligned security controls.

Australian Citizenship and NV2 clearance are prerequisites. The role focuses on hands-on engineering across system integration, testing, evaluation, and design evolution, collaborating with a small

Qualifications

• Experience engineering and integrating complex ICT systems, applying systems and software engineering practices across requirements analysis, interface management, configuration control, integration testing, verification, validation, and resolution of integration issues.
• Experience engineering, integrating, and sustaining complex enterprise applications and information system environments, including the integration of applications, data services, user environments, and supporting infrastructure.
• Ability to implement, assess, and maintain security controls aligned with the Information Security Manual (ISM) and the Essential Eight mitigation strategies as part of broader system security and assurance activities.
• Strong understanding of LAN and WAN engineering principles, including IP addressing, routing, DNS, DHCP, and network segmentation, and how these elements interact to affect system interoperability, performance, and security.
• Proven ability to operate as a senior technical practitioner, providing authoritative engineering advice and engaging effectively with stakeholders including ICT teams, project staff, security authorities, and capability representatives to resolve complex system integration issues without oversight.
• Must be able to work in person at the primary facility, out of state applicants are to explicitly address willingness to move in the submission.

Responsibilities

• Operate across system integration, test and evaluation, and incremental design evolution activities, contributing to the identification, assessment, and management of integration risks.
• Provide technically informed advice, assess the impacts of change across interfaces and dependencies, and contribute to alignment between evolving requirements, implemented solutions, and operational outcomes.
• Engagement with Defence organisations, projects, and enabling ICT providers to resolve complex integration issues.
• Work with SO2 Validate guidance to ensure system alignment and informed engineering decisions across interconnected systems.

Skills

Systems engineering

ICT systems integration

Security controls

LAN/WAN engineering

Stakeholder engagement

Senior technical guidance

Education

Postgraduate qualifications in Systems Engineering

Formal training in Systems Engineering

Tools

Active Directory

DNS

DHCP

PKI

PowerShell

Bash/Ansible

Job description

SYPAQ Systems is seeking a Coalition Services Engineer for an office-based role in Canberra. The successful candidate will apply systems engineering to integrate complex ICT systems, manage interfaces and risks, and engage with Defence and ICT partners while maintaining ISM-aligned security controls.

Australian Citizenship and NV2 clearance are prerequisites. The role focuses on hands-on engineering across system integration, testing, evaluation, and design evolution, collaborating with a small