Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
18 Sept 2023 11:59pm
Job Title
Technical Expert - Windows Admin
Job Summary
DCIL Windows Technical Expert
As a Technical Expert, you can’t resist solving problems. Your investigative skills will be put to the test as you work to diagnose and find solutions, activate or repair. You collaborate with stakeholders to ensure our networks and infrastructure are operating efficiently and delivering value to our customers and ensuring optimal network availability.
Job Description
An excellent opportunity has become available for a highly motivated and passionate IT Technical Expert for Windows, Citrix and VMware technologies in the Telstra Defence Operations, Data Centre Operations Team.
This role’s focus will be on the Defence Canberra Integration LAB (DCIL). You will have the opportunity to further develop your skills in a non-production environment. You will have the opportunity to help rebuild and integrate new products into the DCIL environment.
The opportunity:
We are looking for a Technical Expert to support the operations and maintenance of the Telstra Defence Terrestrial Communications Network (DTCN). Specifically, the Datacentre based compute, operating system, network and management application stacks.
This role can be based in Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney, Australia.
This is an office-based role with scheduled RDOs (rostered days off) available.
The Data Centre Operations Team support both the production and pre-production environments for the Defence Terrestrial Communications Network.
In this role your primary focus would be on the operations of the production environment. However, you will also get the opportunity to work on the Defence Canberra Integration Laboratory (pre-production and integration) to prepare solutions for deployment into production.
In this role your focus will be on Windows Administration. You will also get the opportunity to work on a varied number of technologies:
* VMWare Virtualisation
* Microsoft Azure
* Windows 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019
* F5 Load Balancers
* HP Compute
* Lenovo Compute
Please note all candidates must be Australian Citizens and hold a minimum of NV1 AGSVA security clearance to be considered. This role will require you to gain or hold and maintain a Negative Vetting 2(NV1) security clearance.
Your key responsibilities and major tasks include, but are not limited to:
* You will be responsible for all facets of managing the DTCN platforms.
* Restoring elements to working order
* Proactively looking for potential issues
* Managing changes within the environment
* Maintaining the DTCN Baseline
* Looking for opportunities to improve the DTCN platforms.
Enough about us, let's talk about you. To hit the ground running we are looking for individuals who can confidently demonstrate the following:
* Hold a minimum of NV1 AGSVA security clearance.
* You will be responsible for all facets of managing the DTCN platforms.
* Restoring elements to working order
* Proactively looking for potential issues
* Managing changes within the environment
* Maintaining the DTCN Baseline
* Looking for opportunities to improve the DTCN platforms.
Our perks & benefits:
* Work-life integration - we understand life happens when you're busy making other plans, so we offer flexibility around where, and when you work.
* 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers.
* Professional development program.
* An epic (free) Telstra mobile phone plan.
* Laptop/Device allowance renewed every 2 years.
* Purchased Annual Leave scheme.
* Discounted Telstra products and services.
* Continuous Service Recognition for those who are coming across from a Federal Government agency to Telstra.
We fully embrace flexibility and choice at Telstra and it’s as unique as you. We believe every role can flex in some way and encourage you to work where, when, and how you are most engaged, safe, and productive. Talk to us about how a role could be flexible for you!
To attend a Telstra premises in certain states / territories, employees will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19. This is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people and customers. Please speak to us if you have any questions about this based on your individual circumstances.
On the cusp of the next technological transformation in the digital world, Telstra has and continues to be at the forefront of local and global innovation. Come disrupt and lead the industry as we build the networks for the future and push the boundaries of what’s possible with technology.
We're after the right blend of experience and enthusiasm and look for cultural add, rather than cultural fit. We benefit from the unique gifts and backgrounds of each person in our business and push for diversity of thought in all we do.