Senior SSE Architect: Zero-Trust Secure Access Lead

St Vincent's Health Australia Limited; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Salary packaging

Private health insurance discount

Employee assistance program

Fitness Passport access

Job summary

St Vincent’s Health Australia in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Senior Network Security Engineer to lead secure service edge initiatives. You’ll set architecture, run PoCs, design, build and rollout SSE across hospital and care networks, with a focus on ZTNA, CASB, DLP and browser isolation.

You’ll partner with D&T and clinical stakeholders to ensure compliance with privacy and security obligations, mentor engineers, and guide enterprise SSE implementations including Cisco Secure Firewall,

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in senior technical roles across network security and cloud security.
• 5+ years in SSE-focused, security technical lead or cloud security architect roles.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing SSE across large organisations.
• Experience leading PoC, build and enterprise rollout of SSE.
• Large-scale Zscaler or Netskope deployments.
• Strong Cisco Secure Firewall experience.
• Expert routing skills (BGP, OSPF, PBR, ECMP, IPsec/GRE).
• Deep understanding of Zero Trust and identity federation.
• Ability to produce designs and cost models and secure endorsements.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement in healthcare/public sector.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural options analysis and cost modelling for SSE.
• Lead low-level design and enterprise rollout of SSE components.
• Design integration of SSE with Cisco SD-WAN and identity platforms.
• Review designs and artefacts from vendors and delivery teams.
• Ensure operational readiness with runbooks and monitoring.
• Ensure SSE designs meet privacy and cyber obligations (SOCI, ISO27001, Essential Eight, OAIC).
• Provide senior escalation and mentor engineers across teams.

Skills

Zero Trust

SSE/SASE expertise

Vendor evaluations

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder engagement

Cisco Secure Firewall

Routing (BGP/OSPF)

Cloud security

Education

Tertiary IT/Cyber Security degree

CCIE Security or related

Tools

Zscaler ZIA/ZPA

Netskope

Cisco Secure Firewall (FTD/FMC)

Palo Alto

Cisco SD-WAN

Job description

St Vincent’s Health Australia in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Senior Network Security Engineer to lead secure service edge initiatives. You’ll set architecture, run PoCs, design, build and rollout SSE across hospital and care networks, with a focus on ZTNA, CASB, DLP and browser isolation.

You’ll partner with D&T and clinical stakeholders to ensure compliance with privacy and security obligations, mentor engineers, and guide enterprise SSE implementations including Cisco Secure Firewall,