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Senior Network Engineer
Location: ACT
Clearance: Baseline required
Contract: 12 months with 2 × 12‑month extension options
Are you an experienced Senior Network Engineer looking to take ownership of a complex and evolving enterprise environment? This long-term contract offers the opportunity to lead critical network operations, uplift standards, and contribute to major incident response and strategic improvements.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer with 10+ years’ experience providing Level 3 network administration and support across a broad technology landscape. You will work within a high-performing team responsible for managing and enhancing a large-scale network environment spanning:
Key Responsibilities
Location: ACT
Clearance: Baseline required
Contract: 12 months with 2 × 12‑month extension options
Are you an experienced Senior Network Engineer looking to take ownership of a complex and evolving enterprise environment? This long-term contract offers the opportunity to lead critical network operations, uplift standards, and contribute to major incident response and strategic improvements.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer with 10+ years’ experience providing Level 3 network administration and support across a broad technology landscape. You will work within a high-performing team responsible for managing and enhancing a large-scale network environment spanning:
- Firewalls & traffic management
- LAN, WLAN, WAN
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- Cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Zscaler
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage updates, improvements, and lifecycle activities for network infrastructure, standards, procedures, documentation and diagrams.
- Perform advanced fault diagnosis, root cause analysis, and implement effective remediation.
- Maintain strict adherence to security policies and controls.
- Manage IT service queues to ensure timely ticket resolution.
- Lead or support major incident response, keeping senior stakeholders and incident managers informed.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support project planning and drive positive outcomes.
- Mentor and uplift team capability.
Technical Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in SDN technologies (e.g., Cisco ACI)
- Expertise with Fortigate firewalls and enterprise-grade LAN/WAN/WLAN
- Cloud networking across AWS and Azure
- Experience with Zscaler and cloud security technologies
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills
- Ability to train, mentor, and support team members
Reach out to: [email protected]
Ignite is Australia's preferred partner in recruitment and technology solutions across private and public sectors.
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aws
network administration
cloud security
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cloud
wlan
sdn
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- Posted
- Mar 19, 2026
- Type
- Contract
- Level
- Not Applicable
- Location
- Canberra
- Company
- Ignite
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