Senior Network Engineer - FTC until September 2026

Head Office, Australia

Reserve Bank of Australia

We are Australia's central bank. We conduct monetary policy, work to maintain a strong financial system and issue the nation's currency.

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  • Fixed Term Contract to September 2026
  • Hybrid Work Environment
  • Be part of a high performing technical team

The Reserve Bank of Australia is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join on a fixed term contract until September 2026. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer with great Cisco network and SD-WAN experience who are keen to develop their cyber security, automation and cloud credentials. 

The Bank is currently on the journey towards Software Defined networking and your skills and experience will be used and uplifted to support these key next generation networks including ACI, Zero Trust Networking with Software Defined Access, SD-WAN & Azure Cloud.

About the role

  • Undertake the provisioning, maintenance, security hardening, capacity planning and performance testing of network (data, storage) systems infrastructure

  • Participate in 2nd line IT incident and security response capability for network infrastructure

  • Produce design, automation scripts, technical documentation, reports and records regarding infrastructure solutions

  • Improve, harden, test, implement, monitor and tune networking software/hardware to ensure optimum systems performance and highlight potential issues

  • Manage the analysis of network traffic data and providing recommendations on performance and security improvements to network infrastructures as appropriate

  • Undertake acceptance tests and commissioning communications systems and equipment

  • Occasional scheduled work at our Business Resumption Site at Bella Vista will be required

  • Work with cyber security team to improve Bank’s protections and remediate vulnerabilities

About you

  • Degree preferred in IT coupled with Industry accreditations in Cisco and ITIL

  • Strong knowledge of Networking infrastructure covering both Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), and Wireless, preferably Cisco

  • Proven expertise in designing and deploying end-to-end network infrastructure in greenfield office environments

  • Strong experience with Firewalls - Cisco/Palo Alto/Fortinet and applicable management tools to manage such as Cisco Security Manager (CSM).

  • Strong expertise with network tools such as Cisco DNA Centre

  • Strong expertise with F5 (LTM, GTM and BIGIQ) and SD-WAN

  • Strong communications (data/voice/video) infrastructure experience

  • Strong experience in writing policies and procedures and other support documentation

  • Strong experience or willingness to learn: Python and relevant scripting languages to automate activities

  • Good general knowledge of IT infrastructure and service management practices.

  • Good working knowledge or willingness to learn Network management tools like: Stat seeker and Infoblox

  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools like Terraform, Ansible, Git.

  • Nice to haves:

    • Experience in Cisco SDDC and Cisco storage fabric management

    • A working knowledge on Venafi and VMWare products

Be More

Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

Application Close :

July 05, 2025

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Tags: Ansible Automation Azure Banking Cloud Firewalls ITIL IT infrastructure Python Scripting Terraform VMware Vulnerabilities Zero Trust

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: Asia/Pacific
Country: Australia

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