Infrastructure System Engineer

One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Infrastructure Engineer/System Administrator – APS6

Please check below all the job details

1. Contract Duration: 02 Years (12 Years initially + 12 Months extension)
2. Work Location: Canberra (Hybrid available)
3. Eligibility: Australian Citizen with NV1 clearance
4. Tentative Start Date: ASAP
5. Working Hours: 7.5 hours a day/ 38hours a week
6. Budget: $127/ Hour (Inc Super) (Non-Negotiable)

Key duties and responsibilities

The role requires services delivered in collaboration with and under supervision by nominated department personnel, include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Administrator services to plan, deploy, configure, and support solutions in the discrete operational network and ensure reliable ingest into department Net systems.
• Provide technical direction/advice to vendors performing professional services on behalf of the department, ensuring alignment with security and operational constraints.
• Design and configure infrastructure across the full stack (physical, virtual, network, storage) to support business applications and data flows.
• Establish and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Ansible and Git/GitLab, including CI/CD where appropriate for safe, auditable change.
• Provide technical leadership where relevant; mentor team members in automation-first practices and secure operations.
• Work effectively in a small, multidisciplinary team operating within a high‑assurance environment.
• Provide knowledge/skills transfer to permanent staff through clear documentation, diagrams, procedures, and Ansible/GitLab artefacts.
• Record and maintain files/information in accordance with department requirements and applicable security classifications.

The Specified personal should have excellent skills and significant experience in several of the following domains:

• Linux (Ubuntu) administration: hardening, patching, optimisation, troubleshooting; familiarity with AppArmor, systemd; packaging; network services.
• Configuration & Administration of Microsoft Windows Server (used in select roles—e.g., AD/ADFS, certificate services).
• Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code: Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventories), Git/GitLab workflows (merge requests, CI/CD runners, branching strategies), and scripting (Bash, PowerShell).
• Virtualisation: VMware vSphere and ESXi—design, operations, performance optimisation, lifecycle (host patching, vCenter upgrades), VM templates, snapshots, resource controls.
• Database platforms: SQL Server (optimisation, version upgrades, consolidation, virtualisation) and/or Linux-hosted databases where applicable (backup/restore, performance tuning, HA/DR patterns).
• Storage & Backup: enterprise arrays, data tiering, NFS/iSCSI; Dell technologies (e.g., Networker, Isilon/PowerScale) including VEEAM or similar products for backup/recovery of virtual workloads.
• Networking & Security: Cisco firewalls/switches (policy management, NAT, VPNs, ACLs), segmentation, routing, basic QoS; Linux firewalling; vulnerability scanning and remediation.
• Containers (desirable): Docker/Podman, image management, basic orchestration (K8s/nomad) where relevant to packaging and deployment of services.

Mandatory

• Proven experience in the design, configuration, and support of Linux-first (Ubuntu) ICT infrastructure.
• Experience with configuring and maintaining windows systems and services.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible and Git/GitLab (IaC, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, artefact/version control, environments).
• Virtualisation expertise with VMware vSphere/ESXi, including lifecycle management and performance optimisation.
• Networking experience with Cisco firewalls and switches, including policy configuration, network segmentation, and secure connectivity.
• Demonstrable capability delivering complex solutions hosted on infrastructure and/or cloud services, including the ability to identify and resolve:

1. Technical & security requirements (segmentation, access controls, encryption, patching).
2. Test considerations (functional, performance, integration, failover).
3. Operational concerns (monitoring, logging, backup/restore, runbooks).
4. System constraints (resource limits, compatibility, lifecycle).

Highly Desirable

• Expert-level Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL) management including experience with Landscape and developing Linux standard operating environments.
• Experience with containers and/or orchestration (Docker/Podman, Kubernetes), including image hygiene and registry management.
• Security tooling and controls: WSUS/SCCM (for Windows), Nessus/Nmap (vulnerability scanning), AppArmor, Linux firewalling, Cisco firewall policy hygiene, and SIEM/logging integration.
• Experience designing monitoring/alerting (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OSSEC equivalents, CheckMK) suitable for discrete/segmented environments.
• Experience with data ingest pipelines (network and system throughput tuning, buffering, reliable delivery, integrity validation) using tools such as Apache NiFi.
• Experience complying with security assessments, system configuration, and change management processes/documentation standards in the Federal Government sector (particularly national security contexts).
• Strong scripting skills (Bash and PowerShell) for automation, diagnostics, and configuration management.

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