Senior Network Engineer
Location: ACT
Security Clearance: Positive Vetting
Contract Period: 12 months + 2 × 12 month extension options
Closing: 11:59pm Tuesday 27 October 2026
Current and former ADF personnel encouraged to apply
The Opportunity:
Infrastructure Engineers implement, manage and retire the infrastructure (including physical, virtual, networking and cloud infrastructure) that supports digital services.
The Network Engineer will perform the following duties and responsibilities:
Support Network Architects in the development, review, and refinement of network architectures and technical designs.
Assist in validating network designs against business, operational, security, and performance requirements.
Develop detailed implementation plans, build specifications, configuration standards, and technical documentation.
Plan, execute, and support network testing activities, including functional, integration, performance, resilience, verification, acceptance, and security testing to ensure network solutions meet design specifications, operational requirements, and quality standards.
Support the transition of network services into operational environments, ensuring appropriate documentation, support procedures, and knowledge transfer are completed.
Collaborate with project teams, vendors, and stakeholders throughout the network design, build, test, and verification lifecycle.
Establish and lead network planning for own area of responsibility and design the infrastructure necessary to provide the network services to meet service level arrangements.
Maintain and apply detailed knowledge and experience related to current Defence and industry accepted network hardware and software products.
Analyse complex to very complex network engineering issues, applying knowledge and expertise to identify and recommend courses of action.
Responsible for significant aspects of the installation, upgrade, operation, control and effective use of local and wide area networks for the communication of data, voice, audio, text or images.
Undertake network installations as required.
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