Senior Network Engineer: Enterprise Networking & Zero Trust

University; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 121,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parking salary sacrifice

Novated vehicle lease

Onsite childcare

Health & wellbeing support

Job summary

Western Sydney University is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to deliver secure, high-performing network services across multiple campuses in New South Wales. You will implement and operate complex network infrastructure, diagnose incidents, and drive improvements with a focus on Zero Trust and secure connectivity.

Key responsibilities include coordinating across vendors and teams, enabling lifecycle refreshes, and maintaining observability and performance.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in IT or Network Engineering.
• Enterprise network implementation, support and operations experience.
• Experience supporting segmentation, Zero Trust or network access control initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of IPv4/IPv6, VLANs, QoS and segmentation principles.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain availability, security, performance and reliability of network services across multi-campus environment.
• Diagnose complex incidents and address recurring network and infrastructure problems.
• Implement approved network changes, upgrades and lifecycle refresh activities.
• Support integration and operation across multi-vendor technologies (Cisco, HPE Aruba, Palo Alto, Citrix ADC/NetScaler, Ruckus, etc.).
• Support network segmentation, Zero Trust and secure connectivity initiatives and handover to BAU.

Job description

Western Sydney University is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to deliver secure, high-performing network services across multiple campuses in New South Wales. You will implement and operate complex network infrastructure, diagnose incidents, and drive improvements with a focus on Zero Trust and secure connectivity.

Key responsibilities include coordinating across vendors and teams, enabling lifecycle refreshes, and maintaining observability and performance.