Senior Network Engineer - Systems Integrator

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Join a leading Australian data centre operator delivering Tier III (N+1) colocation facilities across metropolitan and regional locations. The organisation supports a diverse range of industries, including telecommunications, IoT, transport, healthcare, cloud services, and digital technology providers, with reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions.

This opportunity is ideal for a Senior Network Engineer looking to take ownership of complex WAN and data centre network environments within a growing infrastructure organisation. You'll lead technical delivery across the customer lifecycle, from solution design and project implementation through to ongoing support, combining hands-on engineering with customer engagement and technical leadership.

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity and apply today!

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and support enterprise and carrier-grade WAN and data centre network solutions, ensuring high availability, scalability and operational resilience.
• Design and maintain complex routing architectures using technologies such as MPLS, BGP and EVPN/VXLAN to support customer and internal network infrastructure.
• Plan fibre routes and inter-site connectivity for new customer deployments, ensuring resilient network paths, capacity planning and seamless integration into existing infrastructure.
• Lead technical discovery workshops with customers, gathering business and technical requirements before translating them into practical network solutions.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and implementation documentation to support successful project delivery and operational handover.
• Take ownership of customer onboarding projects, ensuring new services are successfully integrated into the existing network infrastructure.
• Act as the technical lead throughout the full project lifecycle, providing technical guidance from solution design through to implementation, testing and transition into production.
• Collaborate closely with project managers, operations teams, facilities teams and third-party vendors to ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high technical standard.
• Provide technical expertise during customer meetings, solution presentations and RFP responses, acting as a trusted technical advisor throughout the engagement.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex routing, switching and transport-related issues across large-scale production environments, ensuring minimal service disruption.
• Provide senior technical support and mentorship to engineering teams while acting as an escalation point for complex networking issues.

Requirements:

• We're looking for an experienced Network Engineer with a strong background designing, implementing and supporting enterprise or service provider network environments.
• Experience with the following technologies and disciplines will be highly regarded:
• Strong expertise in enterprise and carrier-grade routing and switching.
• Hands-on experience designing and supporting MPLS environments.
• Advanced knowledge of BGP routing within enterprise or service provider networks.
• Experience designing and deploying EVPN/VXLAN network fabrics.
• Strong understanding of enterprise WAN technologies and resilient network architecture.
• Experience with fibre infrastructure, transport networking and physical connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco, Juniper and/or Arista networking platforms.
• Experience designing highly available, resilient network solutions.
• Strong experience producing High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and implementation documentation.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills across complex production networking environments.

Benefits:

• Join a rapidly growing organisation investing heavily in its network infrastructure and engineering capability.
• Work on large-scale enterprise, carrier and data centre networking projects using modern networking technologies.
• Take ownership of projects from customer discovery and solution design through to implementation and operational handover.
• Work alongside a highly experienced engineering team whilst remaining customer-facing and technically hands-on.
• Play a key role in delivering critical infrastructure that supports enterprise customers across multiple industries.

Salary:

• Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications