Senior Network Engineer - SDA Fabric

E-Health NSW; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 154,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

eHealth NSW is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to take technical ownership of a Cisco SDA platform across NSW emergency-services systems. The role offers hybrid flexibility with Chatswood and Homebush work locations and a competitive salary.

You will operate and troubleshoot SDA fabric components, manage Catalyst Center provisioning and ISE integration, and lead incident responses in a 24x7 environment. A strong focus on routing, switching, and resilience is required.

Qualifications

• Production Cisco SDA experience in a live environment.
• SDA fabric engineering across Edge/Control Plane/Border Nodes, LISP, VXLAN, virtual networks, SGTs, TrustSec.
• Catalyst Center provisioning, lifecycle, and telemetry-driven health monitoring; ISE integration.

Responsibilities

• Own the SDA platform's health, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Operate and troubleshoot Fabric Edge, Control Plane, Border Nodes, LISP, VXLAN, and related components.
• Manage Catalyst Center provisioning, health monitoring, and software lifecycle.
• Support ISE and fabric-enabled wireless integration.
• Diagnose end-to-end endpoint/authentication/connectivity issues using CLI, captures, logs, and telemetry.
• Review proposed designs and drive improvements from concept to production handover.
• Lead technical response to major incidents and vendor escalations.
• Plan and execute upgrades, maintenance, and failover testing under change control.
• Collaborate with security, data centre, WAN, compute, and architecture teams; participate in on-call.

Skills

Cisco SDA

SDA fabric engineering

Catalyst Center

ISE

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Tools

Catalyst Center

ISE

Job description

Senior Network Engineer - SDA Fabric (Health Manager Level 4)

Take senior technical ownership of a critical Cisco SDA platform supporting emergency-services systems across NSW.

Full Time Permanent

Hybrid flexibility for work-life balance | Chatswood, Homebush

Attractive salary, from $153,559 up to $182,954 + 12% Super + 17.5% annual leave loading

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Your work matters at eHealth NSW

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Take technical ownership of the SDA platform, including its operational health, supportability, resilience and continuous improvement.

Operate and troubleshoot Fabric Edge, Control Plane and Border Nodes, LISP, VXLAN, Virtual Networks, SGTs, TrustSec and external/fusion connectivity.

Manage Cisco Catalyst Center for provisioning, assurance, software lifecycle and telemetry-driven platform health monitoring.

Support Cisco ISE (802.1X, MAB, RADIUS, CoA, profiling and policy) and fabric-enabled wireless integration.

Diagnose complex endpoint, authentication and connectivity issues end-to-end using CLI, packet captures, logs and controller telemetry.

Review and challenge proposed designs, and take agreed improvements from concept through implementation and operational handover.

Lead technical response to major incidents and complex vendor escalations, driving root cause and corrective action to completion.

Plan and execute upgrades, maintenance and failover testing under formal change control, maintaining standards and documentation.

Work across security, data centre, WAN, compute and architecture teams, and participate in on-call support for this 24x7 environment.

About You

Production Cisco SDA experience – Demonstrated hands‑on experience with a live SDA environment; proof‑of‑concept or lab‑only exposure doesn't meet this requirement.

SDA fabric engineering – Fabric Edge, Control Plane, Border Nodes, LISP, VXLAN, Virtual Networks, SGTs, TrustSec and identity‑based segmentation in production.

Catalyst Center and ISE – Hands‑on with Catalyst Center provisioning, assurance and lifecycle, plus ISE (802.1X, MAB, RADIUS, CoA) and fabric‑enabled wireless.

Advanced troubleshooting – CLI analysis, packet captures, debug logs and controller telemetry, with strong routing and switching fundamentals.

Critical production operations – Experience in highly available environments with formal change, incident and problem management, and resilience/failover testing.

Senior technical ownership – Ability to own outcomes, challenge designs, mentor engineers and drive issues to resolution across technology teams.

Why work at eHealth NSW

Hybrid and flexible working options to support balance and productivity

Allocated day off per month in addition to annual leave

Salary packaging to maximise your take‑home pay

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This recruitment may be used to establish a Talent Pool for similar roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.

To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).

If you currently reside outside NSW, please indicate in your application whether you are willing to relocate if successful.