Senior Network Engineer, SDA Fabric | Hybrid

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

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.