Virtualisation Engineer

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CSIRO is seeking a Virtualisation Engineer to join the Information and Infrastructure Services team in Canberra. You will help operate, secure, automate and modernise CSIRO's virtualisation and private cloud platforms, delivering scalable infrastructure for critical workloads.

You will work with VMware technologies (VCF, vSphere) and Cisco UCS hardware, contribute to automation, and participate in on-call support as part of a hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Cisco UCS server hardware infrastructure management.
• Knowledge and experience in the VMware virtualization suite.
• Experience in programming, scripting, or infrastructure orchestration.
• Experience in Linux and Windows server administration.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and related infrastructure services.
• Experience administering Windows and Linux server environments.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security, hardening practices, and risk mitigation principles.
• Backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support VMware vSphere, VCF, and related virtual infrastructure.
• Resolve incidents, service requests, and operational issues.
• Troubleshoot and remediate platform performance and availability.
• Participate in on-call and major incident support.
• Manage and maintain Cisco UCS infrastructure, including Fabric Interconnects, servers, service profiles, and networking.
• Administer the Cisco Intersight environment to monitor health, compliance, and inventory.
• Perform firmware upgrades, hardware lifecycle management, and coordinate vendor support.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Cisco UCS

Linux administration

Windows administration

Scripting/infrastructure orchestration

Security hardening

Education

Tertiary qualification in Science/Engineering/CS/IT or equivalent experience

Tools

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

Cisco Intersight

Job description

Company: CSIRO

Acknowledgement of Country

CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation .

Role highlights

• Power world-class science with cutting-edge cloud and virtualisation technologies
• Drive automation and modernisation across enterprise-scale infrastructure
• Work with enterprise-scale VMware platforms

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

As a Virtualisation Engineer, you will play a key role in the operation, security, automation and continuous improvement of CSIRO's virtualisation and private cloud platforms. Joining CSIRO's Information and Infrastructure Services (IIS) team, you will help deliver the cloud, compute, storage and virtualisation platforms that underpin the organisation's research and business operations. Working with technologies including VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware vSphere and associated infrastructure services, you will deliver reliable, secure and scalable infrastructure that supports critical research, enterprise and scientific workloads.

Working across a diverse technology environment, you will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to support innovation and enable world-class science through modern, high-performing technology solutions.

This role contributes to the design, implementation and lifecycle management of virtualisation services while driving automation, platform modernisation and operational excellence to achieve positive customer outcomes.

• Maintain and support VMware vSphere, VCF, and related virtual infrastructure.
• Resolve incidents, service requests, and operational issues.
• Troubleshoot and remediate platform performance and availability.
• Participate in on-call and major incident support.
• Manage and maintain Cisco UCS infrastructure, including Fabric Interconnects, servers, service profiles, and networking.
• Administer the Cisco Intersight environment to monitor health, compliance, and inventory.
• Perform firmware upgrades, hardware lifecycle management, and coordinate vendor support.

Location and office arrangements: Canberra, Melbourne

Tenure & work schedule: Indefinite, Full time (Hybrid working available)

Reference: 104238

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

• Tertiary qualification in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Cisco UCS server hardware infrastructure management.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the VMware virtualisation suite.
• Experience in programming, scripting, or infrastructure orchestration.
• Experience in Linux and Windows server administration.
• Demonstrated experience with VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and associated infrastructure services.
• Demonstrated experience administering Windows and Linux server environments.
• Demonstrated ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and perform performance analysis across infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated knowledge of infrastructure security, hardening practices, and risk mitigation principles.
• Demonstrated understanding of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts and practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while effectively managing competing priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships, supported by strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Demonstrated customer-focused approach to service delivery, with a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.

While it is CSIRO policy that the successful candidate must meet all the essential criteria, there are many ways to demonstrate this. Don't let the list discourage you. If you are unsure about applying, please reach out to the contact person in the Position Description.

Setting you up for success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. Please contact [e-mail] and let us know how we can support you.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong. We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Platinum Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

This is a security assessed position, applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens only with the successful candidate being required to be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the Negative Vetting level 1. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Child safety

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy .