One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Infrastructure Engineer/System Administrator – APS6
Please check below all the job details:
Contract Duration: 02 Years (12 Years initially + 12 Months extension)
Eligibility: Australian Citizen with NV1 clearance
Tentative Start Date: ASAP
Working Hours: 7.5 hours a day/ 38hours a week
Budget: $127/ Hour (Inc Super) (Non-Negotiable)
Key duties and responsibilities:
The role requires services delivered in collaboration with and under supervision by nominated department personnel, include, but are not limited to, the following:
Provide Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Administrator services to plan, deploy, configure, and support solutions in the discrete operational network and ensure reliable ingest into department Net systems.
Provide technical direction/advice to vendors performing professional services on behalf of the department, ensuring alignment with security and operational constraints.
Design and configure infrastructure across the full stack (physical, virtual, network, storage) to support business applications and data flows.
Establish and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Ansible and Git/GitLab, including CI/CD where appropriate for safe, auditable change.
Provide technical leadership where relevant; mentor team members in automation-first practices and secure operations.
Work effectively in a small, multidisciplinary team operating within a high‐assurance environment.
Provide knowledge/skills transfer to permanent staff through explicit documentation, diagrams, procedures, and Ansible/GitLab artefacts.
Record and maintain files/information in accordance with department requirements and applicable security classifications.
The Specified personal should have excellent skills and significant experience in several of the following domains:
Linux (Ubuntu) administration: hardening, patching, optimisation,



troubleshooting; familiarity with AppArmor, systemd; packaging; network services.
Configuration & Administration of Microsoft Windows Server (used in select roles—e.g., AD/ADFS, certificate services).
Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code: Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventories), Git/GitLab workflows (merge requests, CI/CD runners, branching strategies), and scripting (Bash, PowerShell).
Virtualisation: VMware vSphere and ESXi—design, operations, performance optimisation, lifecycle (host patching, vCenter upgrades), VM templates, snapshots, resource controls.
Database platforms: SQL Server (optimisation, version upgrades, consolidation, virtualisation) and/or Linux-hosted databases where applicable (backup/restore, performance tuning, HA/DR patterns).
Storage & Backup: enterprise arrays, data tiering, NFS/iSCSI; Dell technologies (e.g., Networker, Isilon/PowerScale) including VEEAM or similar products for backup/recovery of virtual workloads.
Networking & Security: Cisco firewalls/switches (policy management, NAT, VPNs, ACLs), segmentation, routing, basic QoS; Linux firewalling; vulnerability scanning and remediation.
Containers (desirable): Docker/Podman, image management, basic orchestration (K8s/nomad) where relevant to packaging and deployment of services.
Mandatory:
Proven experience in the design, configuration, and support of Linux-first (Ubuntu) ICT infrastructure.
Experience with configuring and maintaining windows systems and services.




Hands-on experience with Ansible and Git/GitLab (IaC, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, artefact/version control, environments).
Virtualisation expertise with VMware vSphere/ESXi, including lifecycle management and performance optimisation.
Networking experience with Cisco firewalls and switches, including policy configuration, network segmentation, and secure connectivity.
Demonstrable capability delivering complex solutions hosted on infrastructure and/or cloud services, including the ability to identify and resolve:
Technical & security requirements (segmentation, access controls, encryption, patching).
Operational concerns (monitoring, logging, backup/restore, runbooks).
System constraints (resource limits, compatibility, lifecycle).
Highly Desirable:
Expert-level Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL) management including experience with Landscape and developing Linux standard operating environments.
Experience with containers and/or orchestration (Docker/Podman, Kubernetes), including image hygiene and registry management.
Security tooling and controls: WSUS/SCCM (for Windows), Nessus/Nmap (vulnerability scanning), AppArmor, Linux firewalling, Cisco firewall policy hygiene, and SIEM/logging integration.
Experience designing monitoring/alerting (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OSSEC equivalents, CheckMK) suitable for discrete/segmented environments.
Experience with data ingest pipelines (network and system throughput tuning, buffering, reliable delivery, integrity validation) using tools such as Apache NiFi.
Experience complying with security assessments, system configuration, and change management processes/documentation standards in the Federal Government sector (particularly national security contexts).
Strong scripting skills (Bash and PowerShell) for automation, diagnostics, and configuration management.
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🏢 Strategic Partners Australia
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