Senior Gateway Engineer

- Must be Citizens
- 12-month assignment with potential for 2 x 12-month extensions
- Work onsite Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide or Melbourne offices

Looking for a Senior Gateway Engineer with in-depth knowledge of specific ICT Platforms and to provide expert advice on managing and maintaining those platforms. Working closely with key third-party suppliers to ensure the provision of a robust gateway infrastructure capability for the business and liaising with architecture and shared services areas to ensure the security of the day-to-day technical operations.

Key duties may include, but are not limited to:

* Manage infrastructure requirements to meet future infrastructure demand and operational support for hardware, software, and other assets.

* Manage the prioritisation and escalation of infrastructure issues to ensure timely resolution.

* Communicate the end-to-end implications of configuration changes.

* Analyse the quality of requests for change management.

* Provide detailed, specialist technical advice, including strategic advice to the senior executive where appropriate.

* Proactively share knowledge and expertise as the subject matter expert, and provide assistance and mentorship to less experienced colleagues.

* Assist in the development and implementation of strategies, operational policy and procedures and change initiatives.

* Research emerging technologies and provide recommendations on product suitability for the agency.

* Develop staff capability through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.

* Prepare, review, and maintain documentation which may include design documentation, implementation plans, test plans, and support procedures engage and partner with other agencies and service providers to build service delivery

capability.

* Attend inter agency meetings and forums to influence business outcomes and share information.

* Encourage innovation, and continuous improvement and manage and support change.

* Influence and contribute to ICT strategy resolving conflicts as needed.

Primary Knowledge/Skills/Systems/Tools required for role include:

* F5 * Cisco ACI * Palo Alto Firewalls * Blue Coat Proxy * Infoblox DDI * Email Solutions * VPN Technologies * Routing and Switching Infrastructure * Network Analysis Tools * Cloud Technologies (AWS/Azure/Google).

Selection Criteria

* A minimum of five (5) years demonstrated experience in the design, management and maintenance of internet gateway and/or large-scale data centre networking environment.

* Demonstrated experience and technical proficiency in the design of services utilizing F5/Blue Coat Layer 4-7 switching/load balancing and proxy systems.

* Demonstrated experience in the design and deployment of network infrastructure including Cisco Data center technologies like Cisco ACI, Cisco Routers, nexus switches, and routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP.

* Detailed understanding of Palo Alto firewalls and IPS Solutions.

* Design and implementation of VPN technologies, email and DNS (Infoblox) Solutions.

* Design and integration of hybrid and public cloud services.

* Development and maintenance of system architecture and design documentation.

* Demonstrated experience with or knowledge of Australian Government information security policies, the ASD Information Security Manual, and Essential Eight.

If interested, Please apply through the link below and we will get in touch with you.