Network Architect Administrator

• Location: Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory
• Type: Contract
• Job #17168

About the Role

Our federal government client is seeking to engage a talented candidate to help address the increasing scale of our modelling and simulation activities through the provision of network design and system administration services for a heterogeneous, standalone network, providing virtualised Linux and Windows servers, with a small physical desktop footprint.

Key Responsibilities

• Contributing to the design of a standalone network to support virtualised Linux and Windows services, as well as Windows desktops,
• Contributing to the design of a GitOps network administration process, utilising tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, GitLab, HashiCorp Vault, Docker and Kubernetes,
• The generation of governance documentation to support network accreditation including but not limited to a CONOPS, High Level Design, System Security Plan, Continuous Monitoring Plan, Incidence Response Plan, and Information Assurance Procedures, Standard Operating Procedures,
• Implementation of security controls defined by the relevant security standards, including the PSPF, ISM and NIST 800 series publications,
• Development of scripts, resource configuration and automations to deploy and maintain network services in an auditable, reproducible manner,
• Ensuring that all hosts on the network are appropriately maintained and patched in accordance with processes defined in governance documentation,
• Managing network compute and virtualisation services (VMWare, Proxmox, Nutanix, Xen, etc),
• Managing network identity services (Active Directory/LDAP), access controls, group policies and account management
• Managing network services to support software development and simulation activities (Artifactory, GitLab, SonarQube, etc)
• Managing network productivity services (i.e. a Wiki, Chat service, etc)
• Managing network storage services (NAS/SAN, and performing backups as required)

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrated experience with Linux administration. RedHat experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in both Windows Server and Desktop administration – Active Directory, Group Policy, Account management, Powershell, WSUS, system patching
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform 
• Demonstrated experience with configuration-as-code tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Demonstrated experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker, Podman
• Demonstrated experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Demonstrated experience using version control systems such as git
• Demonstrated experience designing highly secure networks in consultation with the ISM or NIST 800 series publications and developing security governance documentation to support engagement with and accreditation by relevant ICT authorities
• Demonstrated experience establishing GitOps workflows for network administration and continuous integration pipelines
• Software development experience or experience developing scripts to automate system administration tasks, with languages such as Bash, Python and Powershell would be highly beneficial
• Demonstrated experience managing network services such as Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers and/or Storage Attached Networks (SANs)
• Demonstrated experience managing virtualisation technologies such as VMWare, Nutanix, Proxmox or Xen
• Demonstrated experience deploying and managing software development support services such as Artifactory, GitLab, HashiCorp Vault, etc.

Contact details

For a confidential chat, please contact Alysha on 0437 453 488 or via email at akhairuldin@exclaim-it.com.au and we would be more than happy to provide you with additional information and assist in the application process.