Senior Platform Engineer - Federal Govt (Hybrid, Canberra)

Gov Recruit; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Gov Recruit is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a Federal Government Platform Services team in Canberra. The role focuses on secure, reliable ICT infrastructure with emphasis on Windows Server, endpoint security, identity and privileged access management.

Hybrid in Canberra with flexible work. You will collaborate across cyber security, infrastructure and application teams, vendors and stakeholders to uplift security and modernise platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' relevant experience in platform engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Experience administering enterprise endpoint security platforms.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise endpoint security and application control platforms.
• Manage endpoint protection, EDR, host-based firewalls, vulnerability management and device control technologies.
• Configure and maintain platforms including Airlock Digital, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Defender.
• Manage security policies, application whitelisting, exclusions, agent health and deployments.
• Respond to CVEs, vendor advisories, vulnerabilities and security findings.
• Undertake impact assessments, remediation, testing and change implementation.
• Support enterprise Windows Server environments, including Server Core.
• Perform Windows Server patching, upgrades, migrations, hardening and lifecycle management.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Endpoint security

Vulnerability management

IAM / Privileged access management

Identity & access management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Airlock Digital

Symantec Endpoint Protection

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

CyberArk

Secret Server

Intune

SCCM/MECM

Job description

Gov Recruit is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a Federal Government Platform Services team in Canberra. The role focuses on secure, reliable ICT infrastructure with emphasis on Windows Server, endpoint security, identity and privileged access management.

Hybrid in Canberra with flexible work. You will collaborate across cyber security, infrastructure and application teams, vendors and stakeholders to uplift security and modernise platforms.