Application closing date: Thursday, 09 July 2026 • 11:59pm, Canberra time (in Canberra)

Estimated start date: Monday, 17 August 2026

Location of work: ACT

Working arrangements: Candidates must work on-site at the Department's Canberra office, 40 hours per week

Length of contract: 12 months

Contract extensions: 2 x 12 months

Security clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline

Rates: $120 - $140 per hour (inc. super)

The ICT Operations Branch within the Department of Industry, Science and Resources provides ICT support and underpinning infrastructure services to the department and the Ministers' Offices, ensuring all staff in the department and MOs have access to stable and secure technology. The ICT Networks & Infrastructure Platforms section falls within the ICT Operations Branch. The Infrastructure Platforms team is responsible for the management of all data centers, server hosts and virtualisation, automation, storage, backup and restore capability. The team is also responsible for providing after hours on-call support for our infrastructure.

We are seeking a Senior Storage Engineer who has experience working in large complex ICT environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for deploying, configuring, managing and tuning the department's storage systems at physical and virtual layers. The Senior Storage Engineer will also be responsible to deploy, configure and manage Storage Area Network Switches as required. The successful candidate should have knowledge of new and emerging technologies to shape the future direction of the department's storage and data platforms. The role requires producing design documents, build documents, operations document, handover and sharing of knowledge with other team members and mentoring junior team members.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in the design, administration, tuning and troubleshooting of one or more of the following storage systems:
  
  • HPE 3PAR, Primera, Alletra Storage Systems
  • NetApp E-Series
  • Dell Data Domain
  • Brocade Fabric Switches
  • SANnav
  • Scality Artesca
• Ability to produce design, build and operations documents for processes and procedures.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills to work with skilled technical people, including making presentations to staff and stakeholders and coaching staff.
• Experience / Knowledge of following technology:
  
  • Veeam Backup and Replication

HOW TO APPLY

Please provide an updated CV (a maximum of 3-5 pages) to reflect your suitability to the role based on the job description. You will also need to complete responses to the essential and desirable criteria which is no more than 5000 characters for each response. Your application will be reviewed based on ability to demonstrate, or potential to develop, the capabilities required.