Senior Network Engineer providing technical leadership in data centre networking for St Vincent’s Health Australia. Leading complex initiatives and ensuring reliability across network services.
About the role
- Network Engineer, WAN at Fluidstack responsible for architecting and operating global network backbone. Focus on designing high-performance, secure, reliable WANs to support data movement across regions.
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency WAN links across data center sites.
- Experience with optical transport (DWDM, ROADM, coherent optics) and platforms such as Ciena.
- Lead carrier engagements end-to-end: circuit procurement, contract negotiation, SLA management, and escalation.
- Monitor and optimize interconnect performance, including routing, packet loss, and bandwidth usage.
- Coordinate physical fiber entries, cross-connects, and demarcation points with ICT and facility teams.
- Develop and maintain WAN capacity models; forecast bandwidth needs aligned to deployment roadmap.
- Automate configuration, provisioning, and monitoring of WAN infrastructure.
- Deploy and maintain site-to-site VPNs, private peering, and direct connects with hyperscalers.
- Troubleshoot complex network issues.
- Implement best practices for redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineering, SREs, and software teams.
- Support future growth by contributing to global network expansion plans.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in network infrastructure engineering with a focus on WAN design and operations.
- Deep understanding of network routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), MPLS, and IPsec VPNs.
- Strong documentation habits; ability to create runbooks, topology diagrams, and decision records.
- Proven experience with fiber, transport circuits, and carrier peering arrangements.
- Strong knowledge of Linux networking and systems administration.
- Experience with infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, NetBox).
- Familiarity with monitoring and telemetry tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or custom tooling).
- Ability to manage projects across multiple sites and time zones.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
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