Senior Systems Engineer – Projects

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and maintain CT hosting platforms, ensuring that the compute, virtualisation, storage, and operating system layers are secure, reliable, and high-performing.

• Engineer, configure, and support enterprise Linux server environments, which includes patching, hardening, configuration management, and Hypercare activities.

• Administer enterprise virtualisation platforms, encompassing hypervisor, cluster, and virtual machine lifecycle management.

• Develop and sustain platform storage solutions that fulfill performance, resilience, capacity, and data protection requirements.

• Execute technical project work through CT change management processes, complete with appropriate risk assessments and rollback plans.

• Provide technical expertise and serve as an escalation point for complex platform issues and major incidents.

• Collaborate with Presales and Solution Architects to validate solution designs and offer technical guidance along with effort estimation support.

• Maintain expert knowledge of hosting platforms, vendor technologies, integrations, and product roadmaps.

• Mentor and assist engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, documentation, and technical guidance.

• Create reusable technical documentation, templates, runbooks, and standard deployment patterns to enhance team capability.

• Identify technical skill gaps and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the team.

• Ensure project deliverables are completed on schedule, adhere to quality standards, and are successfully transitioned to operational support teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a Systems Engineer or in a similar role within enterprise or managed services environments.

• Strong expertise in Linux administration and engineering across enterprise distributions such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or Ubuntu.

• Practical experience with enterprise virtualisation platforms, especially VMware vSphere.

• Familiarity with enterprise compute, storage, networking, and backup technologies.

• Understanding of networking concepts that support containerised and virtualised environments.

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capability to collaborate effectively across technical teams.

• Experience with scripting and automation using tools such as Bash, Python, or Ansible (highly regarded).

• Experience with Kubernetes-based virtualisation platforms such as SUSE Harvester, Rancher, or KubeVirt (highly regarded).

• Experience managing Kubernetes and containerised workloads in production (highly regarded).

• Experience with software-defined storage technologies such as Longhorn or Portworx (highly regarded).

• Relevant Linux, Kubernetes, or virtualisation certifications, such as those from SUSE, Linux Foundation, or VMware (highly regarded).

🏝️ Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangements (for most roles) with designated team anchor days to enhance collaboration.

• Comprehensive training and development opportunities that support continuous growth as part of your career planning.

• Extensive discounts and benefits to maximize your financial well-being.

• The flexibility to choose your IT equipment to ensure your success, along with access to cost-price technology for personal use.

• Enjoyable team events to celebrate achievements and foster connections with colleagues outside of work, as part of our engaging culture.

• A valid *Vulnerable People / Working with Children Check (WWCC) and Police Check are mandatory.