Senior SASE Network Engineer – Zero Trust & Secure Access

St Vincent'S Hospital Melbourne; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Salary packaging

Private health discount

Employee assistance

Fitness Passport

Job summary

St Vincent's Health Australia in Melbourne seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement and operate a cloud-delivered SASE/SSE platform built on Zero Trust principles. You will lead the engineering workstream during deployment and own ongoing health and performance.

Responsibilities include securing web access, SD-WAN integration, identity controls and 24/7 incident response, with collaboration across clinical IT teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• Hands-on network security engineering in large, multi-site environments.
• Experience implementing and operating enterprise secure access like SASE/SSE.
• Advanced cross-domain troubleshooting and incident recovery experience.
• Ability to automate repeatable tasks via scripts or IaC.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and operate SASE/SSE capabilities per approved architecture.
• Translate architecture into configurations, test plans and migration approaches.
• Guide PoC, build, integration, testing, pilot and deployment activities.
• Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex cross-domain faults.
• Plan complex changes, on-call duties, and after-hours work.
• Build monitoring and runbooks; coach engineers in Network & Communications.

Skills

SASE/SSE engineering

ZTNA & CASB

Secure remote access

SD-WAN integration

24/7 incident response

Networking fundamentals

Education

IT degree or related

Networking certification (e.g. CCNP)

SASE/SSE platform certification

Tools

Netskope

Zscaler

Cisco Secure Access

Palo Alto Prisma Access

Job description

St Vincent's Health Australia in Melbourne seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement and operate a cloud-delivered SASE/SSE platform built on Zero Trust principles. You will lead the engineering workstream during deployment and own ongoing health and performance.

Responsibilities include securing web access, SD-WAN integration, identity controls and 24/7 incident response, with collaboration across clinical IT teams and vendors.