Cleared Recruitment are currently supporting Defence Science and Technology in Adelaide, with their search for a Network Architect / Administrator.

The Project:

DST are seeking a talented Network Architect / Administrator to help address the increasing scale of our modelling and simulation activities through the provision of network design and system administration services for a heterogeneous, standalone network, providing virtualised Linux and Windows servers, with a small physical desktop footprint.

You will be responsible for:

• Contributing to the design of a standalone network to support virtualised Linux and Windows services, as well as Windows desktops,
• Contributing to the design of a GitOps network administration process, utilising tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, GitLab, HashiCorp Vault, Docker and Kubernetes,
• The generation of governance documentation to support network accreditation including but not limited to a CONOPS, High Level Design, System Security Plan, Continuous Monitoring Plan, Incidence Response Plan, and Information Assurance Procedures, Standard Operating Procedures,
• Implementation of security controls defined by the relevant security standards, including the PSPF, ISM and NIST 800 series publications,
• Development of scripts, resource configuration and automations to deploy and maintain network services in an auditable, reproducible manner,
• Ensuring that all hosts on the network are appropriately maintained and patched in accordance with processes defined in governance documentation,
• Managing network compute and virtualisation services (VMWare, Proxmox, Nutanix, Xen, etc),
• Managing network identity services (Active Directory/LDAP), access controls, group policies and account management
• Managing network services to support software development and simulation activities (Artifactory, GitLab, SonarQube, etc)
• Managing network productivity services (i.e. a Wiki, Chat service, etc)
• Managing network storage services (NAS/SAN, and performing backups as required)

Location

Due to the classified nature of the work and the integrated nature of the team, you will be required to work on-site in the Edinburgh Defence Precinct (SA). Unfortunately, remote working arrangements cannot be supported.

Security Clearances for Personnel

Engaged personnel must hold a current or reinstateable security clearance at a minimum level of Negative Vetting 2 (NV2) as at the commencement date of any associated Work Order, with a strong preference for POSITIVE VETTING (PV). Any personnel engaged at a level of NV2 must be willing and able to upgrade their clearance to a PV.
Engaged personnel shall comply with the requirements and procedures of the Defence Security Principles Framework (DSPF), as amended from time to time.
A condition of response is that for any submitted resources who do not hold a current or re-instatable PV clearance, the submitting Agency must commence a PV upgrade request within 20 days of commencement of any Work Order for the selected resources solely at the Agency's cost.

Term

Initial Term: Commencing 10th November 2024, or as soon as practicable thereafter until 30th June 2025 (nominally 8 months).
Extension Options: Four x 12-month extension options are provided, with the final expiring 30 June 2029.
Extension options are offered at the Commonwealth's discretion, subject to resource performance, role requirements and available budget.

Highly Desirable Criteria:

• Demonstrated experience with Linux administration. RedHat experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in both Windows Server and Desktop administration - Active Directory, Group Policy, Account management, Powershell, WSUS, system patching
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Demonstrated experience with configuration-as-code tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Demonstrated experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker, Podman
• Demonstrated experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Demonstrated experience using version control systems such as git
• Demonstrated experience designing highly secure networks in consultation with the ISM or NIST 800 series publications and developing security governance documentation to support engagement with and accreditation by relevant ICT authorities
• Demonstrated experience establishing GitOps workflows for network administration and continuous integration pipelines
• Software development experience or experience developing scripts to automate system administration tasks, with languages such as Bash, Python and Powershell would be highly beneficial
• Demonstrated experience managing network services such as Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers and/or Storage Attached Networks (SANs)
• Demonstrated experience managing virtualisation technologies such as VMWare, Nutanix, Proxmox or Xen
• Demonstrated experience deploying and managing software development support services such as Artifactory, GitLab, HashiCorp Vault, etc.

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