Hybrid work environment in Sydney CBD
18mth Fixed Term Contract opportunity supporting a major vulnerability management and network security uplift
Lead the technical evolution of enterprise networking through automation, secure engineering and Network DevOps practices
About the business/role/team
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Network Services team is responsible for engineering and supporting the Bank’s enterprise network infrastructure and associated network services.
We are seeking an experienced Principal Network DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership to a team of Network DevOps Engineers supporting a significant Vulnerability Management and Hardening uplift. The role will work closely with the Network Engineering Team Lead and collaborate across Cyber Security, Architecture, Operations, project teams and technology vendors.
This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can bring together deep enterprise networking expertise with DevOps, automation and modern engineering practices, while providing technical direction, mentoring engineers and helping establish sustainable engineering capabilities.
About the role
As Principal Network DevOps Engineer, you will:
Provide technical leadership and direction to Network DevOps Engineers across network engineering, automation and security uplift activities.
Lead architecture and engineering decisions across complex enterprise network environments, including routing and switching, WAN/SD-WAN, data centre, firewalls, F5 and network security.
Establish and promote Network as Code and DevOps engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD, peer review, automated testing and controlled deployment.
Lead and enable network automation using technologies such as Python, Ansible, APIs and platform-native automation capabilities.
Provide technical leadership for network vulnerability remediation, patching, hardening and configuration compliance.
Help establish repeatable and, where appropriate, automated pre-change and post-patch validation to protect network availability and resilience.
Provide technical oversight of network management and patching capabilities across technologies such as Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco FMC and F5 tooling.
Establish engineering standards, reusable automation patterns, design principles and technical governance.
Lead technical assessment of automation and orchestration opportunities, including proofs of concept where appropriate.
Work closely with Cyber Security, Architecture and operational teams to manage technical risk, vulnerabilities, exceptions and remediation dependencies.
Provide technical leadership during complex incidents and critical or zero-day vulnerability responses.
Mentor and develop engineers, improve engineering capability and reduce key-person dependencies.
Ensure new engineering capabilities are supportable and can transition effectively into BAU operations.
About you:
You will bring:
Extensive experience designing, engineering and supporting large-scale enterprise network environments.
Strong technical expertise across network technologies such as routing and switching, BGP, WAN/SD-WAN, data centre networking, firewalls, load balancing and network security.
Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to senior engineers and engineering teams.
Strong experience in network automation and Network DevOps, using technologies such as Python, Ansible, REST APIs and infrastructure/network-as-code approaches.
Practical experience with Git and CI/CD practices, including peer review, automated testing, deployment controls and rollback.
Experience with network management, security or automation platforms such as Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco FMC and F5 BIG-IQ or equivalent technologies.
Experience with vulnerability remediation, security patching, infrastructure hardening and configuration compliance.
Strong architecture and solution design capability, including the ability to assess technical options, risks, dependencies…