Head of Networks
HybridSydney, New South Wales, Australia or Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Job Summary
Drive the strategy for the network platform by reviewing the current MPLS architecture and risk register to identify strengths and weaknesses. Design, architect, and implement the next-generation network while leading a network automation transformation to improve efficiency and reduce risk. Conduct capacity planning for organic and exceptional growth, and participate in pre-sales activities to provide appropriate solutions for defined client opportunities. Ensure all proposed client solutions are feasible and aligned with core network platforms, while actively maintaining the Risk Register and developing metrics for the executive team. Be available to respond to major incidents during and out of hours as required, and provide technical mentoring and leadership to other engineering staff.
Required Qualifications
- Substantial senior experience in enterprise or service-provider networking
- demonstrable leadership or design-authority role
- ideally within an MSP or multi-tenant environment
- Deep, current expertise across secure networking (SASE/SD-WAN/ZTNA), campus, data centre and cloud networking
- Proven track record designing and operating multi-tenant managed network services at scale
- Strong grounding in network automation and infrastructure-as-code
- genuine bias toward standardisation over bespoke work
- Demonstrated ownership of major-incident response and service-quality outcomes against SLAs
- Solid understanding of network security and compliance frameworks (Essential Eight, ISO 27001)
- Experience leading, mentoring and growing technical teams
- Excellent client-facing communication
- Tertiary Education such as Advanced Diploma; Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Information technology or equivalent industry experience
- CCIE certification or equivalent experience
- current, hands-on-credible knowledge across: Secure networking / edge: SASE/SSE, ZTNA, SD-WAN, secure web gateway, CASB integration (e.g. Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cato, Cisco, Zscaler, Netskope)
- Campus & wireless: enterprise switching, Wi-Fi 6E/7, cloud-managed networking and AIOps-driven fabrics (e.g. HPE Aruba Central, Juniper Mist, Cisco Meraki/Catalyst)
- Data centre: L2/L3 fabric, EVPN-VXLAN, overlay/underlay design, firewalling and load balancing
- Cloud & multi-cloud: Azure and AWS networking constructs, hub-and-spoke and virtual WAN topologies, cloud-native connectivity, hybrid interconnect
- Routing, switching & core protocols: BGP, OSPF, VLANs/VRF, QoS, multicast fundamentals
- Automation & observability: IaC, configuration management, network telemetry/streaming, flow analytics, AIOps and full-stack correlation
- Systems Maintenance: Ubuntu Server, Docker containers, NMS infrastructure eg; Tacacs, Radius, Syslog, Grafana, TSDBs
- National Police Checking Service
Desired Qualifications
- ideally within an MSP or multi-tenant environment
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