Senior Solution Infrastructure Engineer

Paxus - Technology + Digital Talent; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxus is partnering with a large Federal Government environment to engage a Senior Solution Infrastructure Engineer to design and deliver resilient, high-performing infrastructure solutions that support business-critical systems.

This senior (EL1-equivalent) contract role focuses on technology refresh, workload consolidation, system resiliency, and strong operational readiness. Location is Canberra with hybrid working and onsite requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience designing infrastructure roadmaps and aligning with IT strategy.
• Ability to advise leadership on lifecycle management and investments.
• Experience reducing technical debt and optimizing cost.
• Exposure to networking, virtualization, and enterprise platforms.
• Ability to oversee technical designs, consolidation, and decommissioning.
• Experience validating DR, failover, and resiliency frameworks.
• Ability to produce clear operational documentation.
• Ability to translate complex concepts for stakeholders.
• Experience engaging vendors and running proof-of-concepts.
• Ability to review health/capacity data and recommend hardening.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure roadmaps aligned to business and IT strategy.
• Provide leadership with lifecycle management recommendations and emerging trends.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and optimize costs.
• Design solutions across networking, virtualization, and enterprise platforms.
• Lead technical designs, consolidation initiatives, and legacy decommissioning.
• Validate disaster recovery, failover, and resiliency frameworks.
• Produce operational documentation for BAU handover.
• Translate complex concepts into clear stakeholder messaging.
• Engage vendors, run proof-of-concepts, and propose best-fit solutions.
• Review health data and recommend hardening and tuning.

Tools

Enterprise Server OS (Windows, Linux/UNIX, AIX)

Virtualisation (VMware, Hyper‑V)

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Gateway & Security Services (Proxy, Load Balancing, NGFW, IPS/IDS)

Networking (Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Arista, Aruba/HPE SDN)

Networking Firewalls (F5 BIG-IP)

Database Platforms (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2)

Job description

Senior Solution Infrastructure Engineer

Paxus is partnering with a large Federal Government environment to engage an experienced Senior Solution Infrastructure Engineer to design and deliver resilient, high-performing infrastructure solutions that support business-critical systems.

This is a senior (EL1-equivalent) contract role focused on technology refresh, workload consolidation, system resiliency, and strong operational readiness.

Key details

• Location: Canberra, ACT (Belconnen area)
• Working arrangement: Hybrid
  • Onsite full-time for the first 3 months (or until you’re across the ICT landscape and project objectives)
  • Then minimum 3 days/week onsite (subject to approval and operational needs)
• Hours: Up to 40 hours/week
• Contract term: To 30 June 2027 with 2x 12 months extensions
• Estimated start: 6 October 2026
• Security: NV1 (Negative Vetting Level 1) is must

Key duties and responsibilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure roadmaps aligned to business and IT strategy
• Provide advice to leadership on lifecycle management, emerging trends, and investment options
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, optimise cost, and improve value
• Design infrastructure solutions across networking, virtualisation, and enterprise platforms
• Lead/oversee technical designs, consolidation initiatives, and legacy decommissioning
• Validate DR, failover, and resiliency frameworks
• Produce operational documentation to enable smooth handover into BAU teams
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, outcome-focused messaging for stakeholders
• Engage vendors, run proof-of-concepts, and recommend best-fit solutions
• Review infrastructure health/capacity data and recommend hardening and tuning

Technical skills

Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:

• Enterprise Server Operating Systems (Windows, Linux/UNIX, AIX)
• Virtualisation Platforms and Infrastructure (VMware, Hyper‑V), Hyper‑Converged Infrastructure
• Gateway & Security Services (Proxy, Load Balancing, NGFW, IPS/IDS)
• Enterprise and Software‑Defined Networking (i.e Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Arista, Aruba/HPE SDN) Firewall networking technologies (i.e. F5 BIG‑IP)
• Enterprise Database Platforms (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2)

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability.