Virtualisation Engineer: VMware & Private Cloud Automation

CSIRO; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

As CSIRO's Virtualisation Engineer, you will help operate, secure and continually improve CSIRO’s virtualisation and private cloud platforms. Joining the Information and Infrastructure Services team, you will deliver scalable infrastructure built on VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere and related services to underpin research and business workloads.

You'll collaborate across teams to drive automation, platform modernisation and on‑call support, with a focus on performance, resilience and customer

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Cisco UCS server hardware infrastructure management.
• Knowledge of VMware virtualization suite and related infrastructure services.
• Experience in programming, scripting, or infrastructure orchestration.
• Experience in Linux and Windows server administration.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, VCF and related services.
• Experience administering Windows and Linux server environments.
• Scripting/automation using PowerShell, Terraform or JavaScript.
• Ability to monitor, troubleshoot and analyse performance across infrastructure environments.
• Understanding of infrastructure security, hardening and risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support VMware vSphere, VCF and related virtual infrastructure.
• Resolve incidents and service requests; address operational issues.
• Troubleshoot performance and availability of platforms.
• Participate in on‑call and major incident support.
• Manage Cisco UCS infrastructure and networking; service profiles.
• Administer Cisco Intersight to monitor health and inventory.
• Perform firmware upgrades and hardware lifecycle management.

Skills

VMware vSphere

VCF

Cisco UCS

Automation scripting

PowerShell

Terraform

JavaScript

Linux admin

Windows admin

Security hardening

Education

Science/Engineering/Computer Science degree or equivalent

Tools

VMware vSphere

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

Cisco UCS

Cisco Intersight

PowerShell

Terraform

JavaScript

Job description

As CSIRO's Virtualisation Engineer, you will help operate, secure and continually improve CSIRO’s virtualisation and private cloud platforms. Joining the Information and Infrastructure Services team, you will deliver scalable infrastructure built on VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere and related services to underpin research and business workloads.

You'll collaborate across teams to drive automation, platform modernisation and on‑call support, with a focus on performance, resilience and customer