Senior Infrastructure Engineer (EL1) - Federal IT & Data Center

IT Alliance Australia; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Alliance Australia is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at the EL1 level for a long-term contractual role based in Canberra. The position requires on-site work for an initial 3 months with broader deployment across programs.

You will provide technical leadership across Windows Server, Active Directory, SCCM/Hyper-V/SCOM, and data centre networking, with focus on secure gateways, storage fabrics and cross-platform server environments.

Qualifications

• Experience with Windows Server, Active Directory and core Microsoft technologies.
• Hands-on with SCCM, Hyper-V/SCOM, and Exchange administration.
• Knowledge of DNS, DHCP, routing/switching (Cisco preferred).
• Experience with firewalls/load balancers (Palo Alto, Fortigate, F5 desirable).
• Data centre design, migration and implementation across multi-site environments.
• Experience with x86 Windows/Linux and IBM P-Series/AIX/Linux.
• Data centre networks, storage fabrics and enterprise storage.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and deliverables across projects and business areas.
• Maintain and upgrade Virtual Service Environment (VSE) environments and servers.
• Plan, design, develop, test and maintain new/existing virtual services per guidelines.
• Configure and deploy virtual services and servers per application owner requirements.
• Lead analysis, planning, execution and performance improvements using appropriate tools.
• Promote adoption of virtual services to ICT stakeholders and project teams.
• Provide support and guidance to project teams for maintaining their own VSE environments.
• Support Departmental secure Internet gateway, secure systems and data centre/network services.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

SCCM/Hyper-V/SCOM

DNS/DHCP

Routing & Switching

Cisco

Firewalls/LBs

Secure web gateways

Data centre design

X86 Windows/Linux

IBM P-Series/AIX/Linux

Data centre networks

Storage fabrics

Enterprise storage

Job description

IT Alliance Australia is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at the EL1 level for a long-term contractual role based in Canberra. The position requires on-site work for an initial 3 months with broader deployment across programs.

You will provide technical leadership across Windows Server, Active Directory, SCCM/Hyper-V/SCOM, and data centre networking, with focus on secure gateways, storage fabrics and cross-platform server environments.