Senior Solution Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Solution Infrastructure Engineer

Paxus is partnering with a large Federal Government environment to engage an experienced Senior Solution Infrastructure Engineer to design and deliver resilient, high-performing infrastructure solutions that support business-critical systems.

This is a senior (EL1-equivalent) contract role focused on technology refresh, workload consolidation, system resiliency, and strong operational readiness.

Key details

• Location: Canberra, ACT (Belconnen area)
• Working arrangement: Hybrid
  • Onsite full-time for the first 3 months (or until you're across the ICT landscape and project objectives)
  • Then minimum 3 days/week onsite (subject to approval and operational needs)
• Hours: Up to 40 hours/week
• Contract term: To 30 June 2027 with 2x 12 months extensions
• Estimated start: 6 October 2026
• Security: NV1 (Negative Vetting Level 1) is must

Key duties and responsibilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure roadmaps aligned to business and IT strategy
• Provide advice to leadership on lifecycle management, emerging trends, and investment options
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, optimise cost, and improve value
• Design infrastructure solutions across networking, virtualisation, and enterprise platforms
• Lead/oversee technical designs, consolidation initiatives, and legacy decommissioning
• Validate DR, failover, and resiliency frameworks
• Produce operational documentation to enable smooth handover into BAU teams
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, outcome-focused messaging for stakeholders
• Engage vendors, run proof-of-concepts, and recommend best-fit solutions
• Review infrastructure health/capacity data and recommend hardening and tuning

Technical skills

Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:

• Enterprise Server Operating Systems (Windows, Linux/UNIX, AIX)
• Virtualisation Platforms and Infrastructure (VMware, Hyper V), Hyper Converged Infrastructure
• Gateway & Security Services (Proxy, Load Balancing, NGFW, IPS/IDS)
• Enterprise and Software Defined Networking (i.e Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Arista, Aruba/HPE SDN) Firewall networking technologies (i.e. F5 BIG IP)
• Enterprise Database Platforms (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2)

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability.