Network Security Engineer

About this role

• 12 month daily rate contract, longevity, growing team
• Melbourne CBD, hybrid, critial infrastructure
• Splunk & ThousandEyes essential

We are seeking a Network Security Engineer for a 12-month daily rate contract based in the Melbourne CBD with a 3-day hybrid office schedule. Joining a growing security operations team within critical infrastructure, you will focus on strengthening network observability, monitoring and NOC capability, with hands-on work across Splunk and ThousandEyes.

This long-standing environment offers excellent continuity, stability and exposure to enterprise-grade tools. If you enjoy solving complex visibility and performance issues and helping mature operational capability, this is an excellent opportunity to make a tangible impact.

• Help build and mature a Network Operations Centre capability across a large energy distribution and critical infrastructure environment.
• Improve network observability and visibility, helping the team better identify performance issues, outages and service degradation.
• Design, configure and optimise Splunk, including dashboards, alerting, data ingestion, correlation and operational monitoring.
• Deploy and enhance ThousandEyes across enterprise, cloud, SaaS and network environments to improve end-to-end visibility.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the network, applications, firewalls, cloud and SaaS services, identifying where problems originate.
• Support the operationalisation of monitoring platforms through documentation, runbooks, alert tuning, handover and continuous improvement.

About You

• Strong hands-on Splunk engineering or administration experience is essential, ideally including Splunk ITSI and/or Splunk Observability.
• Strong hands-on ThousandEyes experience, including deployment, configuration, testing, dashboards, alerting and troubleshooting.
• Experience building or improving NOC, network monitoring or observability capabilities within a large enterprise environment.
• Strong network fundamentals across routing, switching, WAN, data centres, cloud connectivity, DNS and SaaS environments.
• Able to investigate performance issues using multiple data sources and distinguish between network, infrastructure and application problems.
• Experience with Palo Alto, Check Point, Netskope or AlgoSec is beneficial, but secondary to strong Splunk and ThousandEyes capability.

This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who enjoys improving visibility, solving complex network issues and building operational capability rather than simply maintaining an established BAU environment.

Apply now to discuss the role and environment in more detail.

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