Senior Data Centre Design Infrastructure Engineer

Paxus; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxus is seeking a Senior Data Centre Design Infrastructure Engineer to support the design and modernisation of critical ICT rooms and network infrastructure in Sydney. The role requires leading multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring high availability and resilience.

You will design data centre ICT rooms, manage power/cooling capacity, rack layouts, and produce thorough design documentation. NV1 clearance is a must, with initial onsite work and potential hybrid arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience designing data centre ICT rooms or network infrastructure.
• Experience with availability management and service resilience.
• Experience monitoring infrastructure capacity and addressing capacity shortfalls.
• Strong understanding of operational ICT infrastructure procedures.
• Ability to document data design and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-discipline team with complex interfaces and schedules.
• Provide strategic planning, mapping and modelling development.
• Produce clear data reports and visualisations for management.
• Develop data visualisations to present analytics to stakeholders.
• Identify trends and risks from data and advise on governance.

Skills

Data centre design

ICT infrastructure

Network topology

Power & cooling capacity

Data governance & standards

Documentation & design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Eng/ICT

Tools

Modelling tools

Job description

Senior Data Centre Design Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Sydney, NSW
Contract: Initial contract until 30 June 2027
Extensions: Two 12-month extension options
Hours: Up to 40 hours per week
Working arrangement: Initial onsite period, followed by potential hybrid work
Security clearance: NV1 clearance is must

About the Role

A Federal Government organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Data Centre Design Infrastructure Engineer to support the design and modernisation of critical ICT rooms and network infrastructure.

You will provide specialist infrastructure design services across secure and complex environments. The role requires strong experience in data centre design, network topology, power and cooling capacity, rack layouts, technical documentation, and infrastructure assurance.

This is a senior position suited to someone who can manage multidisciplinary activities, provide technical guidance, identify infrastructure risks, and produce accurate design documentation.

Key duties and responsibilities

The Specified Personnel will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to:

• Managing a multi discipline team with complex and different interfaces;
• Providing strategic planning, mapping and modelling development;
• Providing concise data reports and clear data visualizations for management;
• Producing creative data visualizations and intuitive graphics to presenting complex analytics;
• Pinpointing trends, correlations and patterns in complicated data sets;
• Providing advice on information and data governance and standards;
• Triaging code problems and data-related issues and identify risk;
• Documenting all aspects of the data design and decision;
• Cleaning and pruning data to discard irrelevant information;
• Scheduling and managing tasks within a team;
• Assisting in improving the maturity of information management within the Department;
• Discovering trends, patterns and stories told by the data, structured and unstructured, and presenting them to stakeholders.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong experience designing data centre, ICT room or network infrastructure.
• Experience with availability management and service resilience.
• Experience monitoring infrastructure capacity and resolving capacity shortfalls.
• Strong understanding of operational ICT infrastructure procedures.
• Experience investigating and resolving complex infrastructure problems.What went wrong?