AddressYour new employer is a rapidly transforming and growing market leader (15% YOY) with over 5,000 employees nationally. They’ve had one of Australia’s top CIO’s join them recently who has been empowered by the Board and CEO to drive significant IT transformation and investment.
As their new Senior Network Engineer based on the North Shore, you’ll join a mission led, dynamic and friendly culture that thrives on collaboration, inclusion, diversity and their deep sense of purpose. You’ll have a lot of fun working for values-driven leaders who care a lot about empathy, humility and the wellness of their employees. You’ll join a multi-award-winning company – whose numerous awards include ‘Best Places to Work’ and ‘Employer of Choice for Gender Equality’.
You’ll have clear direction and feel highly empowered to drive transformational innovation within the networking and voice technologies space. You’ll be the technical SME driving these modernisation projects and transformation. You’ll be developed and mentored, as this company has progressive learning programs for staff with a core focus on providing opportunities for you to reach your full potential and continue growing in your career. You’ll also have plenty of time to spend with your family and on your health and wellbeing, as this company strongly encourages work-life balance, flexible working hours and remote working options.
Overview of your new role:
You’ll be a critical resource within the IT team responsible for planning, implementing and maintaining the voice and data communication services, with a focus on maximum availability, security and operational performance. Key technical focus areas of the role will include LAN/WAN, data centre, cloud networking, network security, VOIP and telecommunications, virtual/physical firewalls and service optimisation/excellence.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Designing, planning, implementing and maintaining corporate voice and data communication network services, components and associated infrastructure;
- Creating and maintaining technical documentation, reports and records regarding infrastructure solutions;
- Providing escalated (3rd level) technical support, troubleshooting and fault rectification of high-level technical issues related to voice and networking equipment and services;
- Analysing tenders, supervising acceptance tests and commissioning communications systems and equipment;
- Acting as an interface between the organisation and suppliers/carriers/vendors regarding high level technical issues and carrier billing;
- Monitoring the performance of the organisation’s communications carriers/network providers in relation to established service level agreements (SLA's) and business needs
- Testing, implementing, monitoring and tuning voice and networking software/hardware to ensure optimum systems performance and highlighting potential issues;
- Managing the analysis of voice and network traffic data and providing recommendations on performance improvements to network;
- infrastructures as appropriate;
- Participating in corporate change control procedures and methodologies;
- Coordinating with Operations manager to manage the support of the data and voice communications network, ensuring the ongoing availability and reliability of systems is maintained; and
- Mentoring and guiding junior Network Engineers and other IT team members.
You’ll have:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Network Engineer ;
- Cisco certifications desirable;
- Extensive experience and specialist skills in the configuration and maintenance of VOIP and networking infrastructure, including the ability to support a variety of technologies;
- Advanced operational knowledge of networking systems and software covering both Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks;
- Strong understanding of emerging technologies in the communications sphere, including data centre, cloud, WAN, VOIP and wireless;
- Strong skills in Router Hardware/Software, Switch Hardware/Software, SNA/MVS, Frame Relay, ATM, Protocols (TCP/IP / IPX / IBM), Routing Protocols, Firewalls, VOIP, SIP & Cloud based voice services;
- Strong project management skills and an ability to prioritise multiple tasks;
- Excellent communication skills to all levels in the organisation;
- Strong experience working with multiple vendors and internal resources to deliver projects on time, on budget and within scope; and
- Personality wise, you will have high energy and be positive, hungry, optimistic and friendly. You’ll be keen to have autonomy and empowerment to drive innovative technical solutions for your new employer.
For more information or a confidential discussion please call Ash Safdartourei at u&u on 0401646*** quoting reference number #36834.
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