( Government of Australia ) Senior Network Engineer

Company: SystemCanada | www.systemcanada.com

World wide office: Canada - USA - Australia - UK - South Africa - New Zealand - Ireland - Japan

Job Description

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer to be involved in a Federal DataCente relocation in this contract role

Working for a Australian federal ministry on this project your responsibilities will be:

Expansion and Relocation of operations flight deck and user LAN

Upgrade and logical move of primary services to secondary location

Physical Relocation to the new site

Assist with Network IP & X.25 design to meet all facets'of the migration

Raising of changes and migration planning & work with the user migration to ensure min impacts

Implementation of core switching modifications and fault tolerant network

Test plans and signoff

Implementation of layer 3/2 fibre network

Assist with the migration of clients to DR via IP strategies

Candidates must have:

Experience in working on a major DataCentre migration project

Superior knowledge of IP/VLAN switching, OSPF, BGP, NATing, Security and fibre networks.

Technical writing skills demonstrated by an ability to write technical and operational documentation.

Working knowledge of voice, VOIP and PABX systems.

Established experience levels, in the set-up, configuration and implementation of network hardware, including WAN Routers, Load Balancers, LAN switches and Core Fibre switches.

Knowledge of network impacts involving typical LAN applications, eg Microsoft operating systems.

Experience in IP design and IP tools, i.e DNS, DHCP.