Senior Network Engineer - SDA Fabric

NSW Health; Willoughby City Council; Hybrid; AUD 154,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work flexibility

Salary from 153,559 AUD to 182,954 AUD

Superannuation 12% and 17.5% annual LE

Job summary

NSW Health is seeking a Senior Network Engineer – SDA Fabric to take senior technical ownership of a Cisco SDA platform supporting critical emergency-services systems across NSW. The role is full-time permanent with hybrid flexibility at Chatswood and Homebush.

You will operate, troubleshoot and evolved the SDA environment, manage Catalyst Center and ISE, and lead major incidents with a focus on resilience and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Senior network engineer with hands-on SDA Fabric experience.
• Experience operating, troubleshooting and evolving a live SDA environment.
• Strong skills in routing, switching and telemetry-driven health monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of the SDA platform including health and lifecycle.
• Operate and troubleshoot Fabric Edge, Control Plane, Border Nodes and related tech.
• Manage Catalyst Center provisioning, assurance and telemetry.
• Support ISE and fabric-enabled wireless integration.
• Lead incident responses and drive root-cause analysis.
• Plan upgrades, maintenance and failover testing under change control.
• Collaborate across security, data centre, WAN, compute and architecture teams.

Skills

SDA Fabric

Cisco SDA

Network Engineering

Troubleshooting

Change Control

Tools

Catalyst Center

ISE (802.1X)

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

Applications Close: 11:59pm, 12 October 2026

Your work matters at eHealth NSW: As the digital centre of excellence for NSW Health, we design and deliver secure, scalable technology that supports patient care across the state, helping clinicians provide better healthcare, now and into the future.

Join the Team: As a Senior Network Engineer – SDA Fabric within the Emergency Services Organisation (ESO) - Network & Infrastructure, you will provide senior technical ownership of the Cisco Software-Defined Access (SDA) platform supporting critical emergency-services systems. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on the operation, troubleshooting, improvement and lifecycle of a live production SDA environment.

In this role, you will:

• 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.
• 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: At eHealth NSW, our benefits are designed to provide you with the flexibility, growth and support when you need it. We provide:

• 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

Important information

• 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.

NSW Health acknowledges the people of the many traditional countries and language groups of New South Wales. It acknowledges the wisdom of Elders past and present, and pays respect to all Aboriginal communities of today.