Senior SSE Architect: Secure Access & Zero Trust

St Vincent's Health Australia Limited; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging options

Discounted private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Fitness Passport access

Job summary

St Vincent’s Health Australia is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to act as the senior technical authority for Secure Service Edge. You will set the architecture, lead PoCs, design, build and rollout of SSE solutions and advise D&T and clinical stakeholders on Zero Trust security.

You will coordinate architectural decisions, cost models, and vendor evaluations for large-scale SSE deployments, including Zscaler or Netskope, with integration to Cisco SD‑WAN and firewall platforms across

Qualifications

• Extensive SSE and secure access architecture experience.
• Proven ability to lead PoCs, architecture design and enterprise rollout.
• Strong vendor evaluation, cost modelling and risk assessment skills.
• Healthcare/critical infrastructure experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural options analysis, cost modelling and risk assessment for SSE business cases.
• Oversee low‑level design, build and enterprise rollout of SSE components.
• Design integration of SSE with SD‑WAN and identity platforms, including regional breakout.
• Review designs and artefacts produced by vendors and delivery teams.
• Ensure operational readiness with runbooks, policy libraries and training.

Skills

SSE experience

Zero Trust

Cisco FTD/FMC

Zscaler/ZIA

Netskope

Palo Alto

CCIE Security

Vendor evaluation

Architecture leadership

Education

Tertiary IT/Cyber Security

CCIE Security

Tools

Cisco Secure Firewall

Zscaler

Netskope

Palo Alto

SD-WAN

CASB

DLP

ZTNA

Job description

St Vincent’s Health Australia is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to act as the senior technical authority for Secure Service Edge. You will set the architecture, lead PoCs, design, build and rollout of SSE solutions and advise D&T and clinical stakeholders on Zero Trust security.

You will coordinate architectural decisions, cost models, and vendor evaluations for large-scale SSE deployments, including Zscaler or Netskope, with integration to Cisco SD‑WAN and firewall platforms across