Senior Network Security Service Specialist

Pathway Search LLC.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client, a major ASX-listed insurance and banking group, is hiring for a newly created, permanent Senior Network & Security Service Specialist role based in Sydney. This is a genuine mix of hands-on technical work and service ownership, not a single-lane role: roughly half hands-on network and security engineering, a quarter automation, and a quarter service delivery and vendor oversight.

You'll administer firewalls, load balancers, Cisco routing/switching, ACI, and SD-WAN; build

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with major network/systems equipment and security appliances.
• 5–10 years in an enterprise technical service delivery role.
• Experience across on-premises and multi-cloud environments with cloud readiness.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support firewall, routing, and switching infrastructure (Palo Alto, F5, Cisco).
• Troubleshoot complex network and security incidents as escalation point.
• Support cloud migration toward AWS and/or Azure.
• Contribute to MSP governance, platform architecture and vendor oversight.

Skills

Palo Alto firewalls

F5 load balancers

Cisco routing/switching

Cisco ACI

SD-WAN

Terraform

Ansible

Python/CI-CD tooling

Enterprise service delivery

Multi-cloud

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Our client, a major ASX-listed insurance and banking group, is hiring for a newly created, permanent Senior Network & Security Service Specialist role based in Sydney. This is a genuine mix of hands-on technical work and service ownership, not a single-lane role: roughly half hands-on network and security engineering, a quarter automation, and a quarter service delivery and vendor oversight.

What You'll Do

Network & Security

• - Administer and support firewall, routing, and switching infrastructure: Palo Alto, F5, Cisco routing/switching, Cisco ACI, and SD-WAN
• - Troubleshoot and resolve complex network and security incidents as a technical escalation point
• - Support the organisation's ongoing shift toward cloud-hosted services (AWS and/or Azure)

Automation

• - Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Ansible
• - Apply Python, PowerShell, or CI/CD tooling where useful to streamline operations

Service Delivery

• - Support incident, change, and problem management processes
• - Provide input and oversight into a managed service provider's technical delivery
• - Contribute to platform architecture input and vendor governance practices

What You'll Bring

• - Hands-on production experience with Palo Alto firewalls, F5 load balancers, and Cisco routing/switching
• - Working knowledge of Cisco ACI and SD-WAN
• - Working proficiency in Terraform and/or Ansible, or a strong, demonstrated appetite to build this quickly
• - 5-10 years' experience in an enterprise technical service delivery role
• - Comfortable operating in large-scale, on-premises and multi-cloud environments

Nice to have: AWS and/or Azure exposure, Python, PowerShell, or CI/CD experience, financial services or insurance industry background, outsourcing or managed service provider (MSP) management experience.

What's on Offer

• - Up to $150k base plus super
• - Direct engagement with the hiring leader, not a black-box internal process
• - A genuine automation mandate within a large, complex environment
• - Backed by a major, well-known ASX-listed organisation with real scale and career runway