WINTEL Infrastructure Engineers | Canberra or Melbourne | NV2 Minimum

82 Degrees North; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

82 Degrees North is seeking experienced Wintel Infrastructure Engineers to support a major Commonwealth Government program across Canberra and Melbourne. The role focuses on Windows/Wintel engineering with strong security uplift, enterprise hardening and remediation in high-security environments.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of technical cyber security experience, experience securing enterprise systems, and familiarity with Essential Eight mitigations, scripting, and cloud platforms

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical cyber security experience.
• Experience securing and hardening enterprise systems.
• Experience implementing one or more of the Essential Eight mitigations.
• Strong scripting or automation capability for system administration, vulnerability assessment or cyber remediation.
• Experience working within complex enterprise ICT environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement security controls to uplift the security posture of enterprise systems.
• Engineer, administer and secure enterprise Wintel environments.
• Develop SOPs covering security and system administration activities.
• Participate in technical workshops supporting solution design and remediation.
• Prototype and test security configurations to support technical advice and implementation.
• Support vulnerability assessment and remediation activities.
• Automate system administration and security tasks through scripting and/or application development.

Skills

Windows/Wintel infrastructure

Cyber security

Scripting/Automation

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Active Directory security

Job description

82 Degrees North is seeking experienced Wintel Infrastructure Engineers to support a major Commonwealth Government program across Canberra and Melbourne.

These positions are suited to experienced Windows infrastructure engineers who also bring strong cyber security and enterprise security hardening experience. The primary focus is Wintel engineering, with successful candidates contributing to security uplift and remediation activities across complex, high-security enterprise environments.

The opportunity

• Expected commencement: February 2027
• Up to two 12-month extensions
• Up to 40 hours per week
• Predominantly onsite, with WFH arrangements potentially available on a case-by-case basis
• Current NV2 or TSPV clearance required

What you’ll be doing

• Implement security controls to uplift the security posture of enterprise systems
• Engineer, administer and secure enterprise Wintel environments
• Develop SOPs covering security and system administration activities
• Participate in technical workshops supporting solution design and remediation
• Prototype and test security configurations to support technical advice and implementation
• Support vulnerability assessment and remediation activities
• Automate system administration and security tasks through scripting and/or application development

What we're looking for

We’re particularly interested in candidates with strong hands-on Windows/Wintel infrastructure engineering experience, combined with:

• 5+ years of technical cyber security experience
• Demonstrated experience securing and hardening enterprise systems
• Practical experience implementing one or more of the Essential Eight mitigation strategies
• Strong scripting or automation capability for system administration, vulnerability assessment or cyber remediation
• Experience working within complex enterprise ICT environments

Experience with Azure or AWS will be highly regarded, along with experience identifying and remediating Active Directory compromise risks.

This is primarily a Wintel engineering opportunity with a strong security focus, rather than a pure cyber security, SOC or GRC role.

Security requirements

Candidates must hold a current NV2 or TSPV security clearance at the time of application and must be willing to undertake additional organisational suitability requirements prior to commencement.

Note that the OSA process can be very lengthy (Months) so keep this into consideration when applying