Lead Network Engineer

Headquartered in Brisbane, the company has grown since 2004 by acquiring regional IT providers.

The role:

We are adding a Lead Network Engineer to our Infrastructure team. We want someone who documents changes before making them and can read a packet capture when things go wrong. Our headquarters is in Brisbane, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Key responsibilities:

Roll out and manage SD-WAN across branch locations. Design and troubleshoot routing with BGP, OSPF and EIGRP. Run packet captures in Wireshark to diagnose latency and drops. Deploy and support enterprise wireless (Cisco, Aruba, Juniper Mist). Automate config backups and changes with Python, Netmiko or Ansible.

Required qualifications:

7+ years of enterprise network engineering experience. Hands-on firewall administration experience. CCNA required, CCNP preferred. Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, subnetting, VLANs, STP and routing protocols. Comfortable on the CLI in Cisco IOS, NX-OS or Junos.

Nice to have:

Cloud networking in AWS or Azure (Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN). Network automation with Python or Ansible. PCNSE, NSE 4 or CCNP Security certification. Data centre fabrics (Cisco ACI, VXLAN EVPN).

Benefits:

Paid in USD. Monthly internet allowance. Paid time off. Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.

Please submit your CV in English.

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sprucehall.