Senior Infrastructure Engineer (EL1) – Data Center

IT Alliance; Canberra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral incentive: $1000

Job summary

IT Alliance is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at EL1 level for a long-term Canberra-based contract. The role involves leading ICT infrastructure deliverables, maintaining virtual service environments, and coordinating data centre operations on-site for the initial three months.

The ideal candidate will have strong Windows/AD, SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, DNS/DHCP, and networking skills, plus experience across data centres, storage fabrics, and Linux/AIX platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with Windows Server and Active Directory in government or large enterprise environments.
• Hands-on with SCCM, Hyper-V, SCOM, Exchange and related IP networking.
• Knowledge of DNS, DHCP, routing/switching, and firewall technologies.
• Familiarity with data centre design, migration and storage fabrics.
• Experience with Linux (Red Hat) and IBM AIX in x86 environments.
• Understanding of secure gateways and internet security infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on ICT projects and deliverables.
• Maintain and upgrade VSE environments and supported servers.
• Design, develop, test and maintain virtual service solutions with stakeholders.
• Configure and deploy virtual services and servers per application models.
• Lead analysis, planning and execution for performance improvements.
• Promote adoption of virtual services to ICT stakeholders and project teams.
• Support project teams in maintaining their own virtual service environments.
• Support secure internet gateway, data centre, and network services operations.
• Assist in major/minor projects for departmental initiatives.
• Manage capacity planning including mainframe related services.
• Coordinate with external/internal service providers as required.
• Oversee lifecycle of ICT infrastructure assets and data centre footprint.
• Travel interstate as required and deliver formal documentation.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Microsoft SCCM

Hyper-V/VMM

SCOM

File and Print

Exchange

DNS/DHCP

Cisco routing/switching

Firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortigate, F5)

Secure web and email gateways

Data centre design and migration

Windows/Linux on x86

IBM P-Series AIX/Linux

Data centre networks WAN/MAN

Enterprise storage

Tools

SCCM

Hyper-V

SCOM

Exchange

DNS/DHCP Tools

Job description

IT Alliance is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at EL1 level for a long-term Canberra-based contract. The role involves leading ICT infrastructure deliverables, maintaining virtual service environments, and coordinating data centre operations on-site for the initial three months.

The ideal candidate will have strong Windows/AD, SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, DNS/DHCP, and networking skills, plus experience across data centres, storage fabrics, and Linux/AIX platforms.