Senior Systems Engineer

Are you looking for an awesome place to work, where you can proudly be your authentic self, and be part of #oneteam?  

We are looking for a passionate team player who aligns with our values and culture, takes pride in their unique contributions, and can challenge the status quo with disruptive thinking. If this sounds like you, come and join us!

The Opportunity 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Technology and Security team! The role can be based out of our Sydney, Melbourne, or Perth offices. As Senior systems Engineer with Vocus you’ll play a key role in designing and implementing Vocus’ compute systems and related management services, with a focus on best practice engineering, maximum efficiency, and repeatability.

 What you’ll be doing day-today 

• Designing, planning, implementing Vocus compute infrastructure systems, services, and components, driving forward the use of secure DevOps, SRE and IaC approaches and tools.
• Identifying opportunities for the use of new or existing solutions to improve operational efficiency and reliability.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation and reports regarding these systems and services.
• Working with appropriate teams to transition these systems and services into operation.
• Providing guidelines, based on industry ‘best practices’, for the use and maintenance of these systems and services.
• Implementing monitoring of these systems and services to ensure optimum performance.
• Managing the analysis of systems performance data and providing recommendations on improvements.
• Participating in business-wide incident, problem and change control procedures and methodologies.
• Collaborating and working effectively with other teams.

• Ability to design and implement secure, resilient, scalable, high performance and cost-effective solutions.
• Detailed understanding of the design of enterprise-grade configuration management and orchestration systems:
• IaC and configuration management: Puppet, Ansible, Foreman
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, or equivalents
• Source code control : Git
• Security by Design
• Install and configure linux and Windows servers of all types.
• Implement clustering and HA solutions
• Detailed understanding of infrastructure models and technologies – including, but not limited to:
• Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
• Virtualisation
• Public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Detailed understanding of complex systems monitoring solutions 
• InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana
• Strong understanding of operational observability and analysis solutions:
• Elastic (including SIEM and APM) or equivalents
• Strong scripting/programming skills
• Go, python, powershell, bash, or equivalent

 What you’ll bring to the role

• A tertiary qualification in IT, Computer Science, or a related discipline coupled with experience working in large, distributed enterprise environments.
• 5-7 years of commercial experience in IT/Systems Engineering
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and proven analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work autonomously within a small high performing team and a high level of flexibility and adaptability. 
• An enabler mindset, demonstrating leadership and the desire to help build a successful and respected team who add value and deliver services that make a difference.

What We Offer 

Working at Vocus will give you rewarding experiences and the opportunity to do extraordinary work. You will enjoy: 

• Diverse and dynamic teams with a supportive and inclusive culture. 
• Supportive career development plans with comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities. 
• Flexible hours and a hybrid working environment. 
• Generous discounts to over 400 retailers. 
• Competitive leave benefits, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and much more. We also offer a fifth week of annual leave when you hit five years of service! 
• Study assistance programs to excel your personal growth, learning and development. 
• Health and wellness offerings, including access to our wellbeing initiatives that can help you from a financial, psychological, and physical perspective. 

Working at Vocus is never just a job – it’s personal. We’re crazy about our customers and believe our people are the difference. Our wonderfully diverse team and a vibrant culture define us. We care about the impact we have on our people, our customers, and our communities and are committed to operating as a responsible, ethical business. 

We pride ourselves on setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives. 

With us, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and inspire teams, work on projects that are shaping the future of telecommunications and become part of a culture that thrives on creativity, encourages new ideas, and provides a collaborative and inclusive environment.  

About Us 

As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world. Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.  

Ready to take the next step? 

If you like the sound of this role and think you’d do a great job, but are worried you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to back yourself – we know that diverse groups are less-likely to apply for roles they’re not 100% qualified for, but just as likely to succeed at them!  

We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong. We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.   

If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process.