Metricon Homes, a leading multi award winning new home builder is committed to recruiting outstanding individuals who share our passion for delivering quality, service and award winning living solutions for Australian families.

Located at our vibrant Head Office, you will, as a Network Engineer be responsible for supporting Metricon’s networks and connectivity across our many sites - both LAN and WAN.

Working with a dedicated team, you will maintain the security, availability and performance of Metricon's network - maximizing uptime, resilience and performance.

Reporting to the Technology Lead, your responsibilities will include:

Supporting the identification of technology requirements as they relate to the network for optimisation the existing infrastructure

Recommend network design changes and contribute to (or lead as required) high level and low-level design documentation

Be proud of the relationships you maintain and ensure that the relationships with all business functions (customer), external customers, suppliers, agents and contractors are maintained and improved

Provide technical expertise for network related activities, for both operational and strategic matters

Coordinate security applications and ensure compliance across servers and end user computers

Conduct technical vulnerability assessments of IT systems and processes

Manage risk and work proactively to identify and manage problems within the infrastructure systems

Implement counter measures or mitigating controls to known risks and threats

Recognise that the business operates 7 days a week, weekends are critical for display homes to operate technology and there is a need to be responsive on a roster system for after hours and weekend assistance

Follow the change and release management process, ensure all changes are recorded, categorized, risk assessed, planned, tested, validated and implemented.

Metricon will offer you:

Ongoing learning and development opportunities - whether through nationally accredited courses, our highly engaging e-learning portal or other comprehensive training programs

Competitive salary, and salary package opportunities

Attractive housing discounts on our award-winning homes.

Physical fitness, free flu vaccinations, nutrition and mental well being are just some of the programs we sponsor at Metricon to address your wellbeing

24/7 access to our LifeWorks confidential support program which includes coaching for success and navigating personal and work challenges

Exclusive access to building discounts, supplier / trade discounts, and retail discounts with big name brands through our rewards platform

The successful candidate will have:

Bachelor qualification in Computer Science, engineering or related discipline

8-10 years’ experience in IT and 6 years supporting networks in a complex environment in terms diverse locations and an environment with 1500+users

Experience across the delivery of major technology projects

Experience working with managed services and multiple suppliers

Must possess Cisco certifications, ideally CCIE, but CCNP as a minimum

Excellent hands on knowledge of and demonstrated experience with, Velocloud SDWAN, Office Wi-Fi, along with the suite of Cisco routers and switches, Microsoft Office suite, Cloud Services, Data Centre networking, NetFlow, Solar Winds, and SNMP

Excellent knowledge of Network Quality of Service configuration and ongoing management

Ability to perform technical analysis on the following technologies and concepts - DSL, ATM, Async, Gigabit Ethernet

Experience with Queuing - Marking, queuing, shaping and policing, specific router and switch CLI commands to analyse and troubleshoot QoS related issues.

Must be experienced in Platform specific Qos - MLS Qos

Experience with Wifi - 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac concepts

An understanding of Wifi QoS and limitations

Experience NetFlow and NBAR concepts

Strong knowledge of routing protocols - OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and Policy based routing

Experience with traffic statistics analysis - SolarWinds, Velocloud SDWAN, Service provider data/Vendor data

Experience with Radius and TACACS+ integration with Network infrastructure

An understanding of Service provider PE and CE key concepts

An understanding of Network infrastructure access and security

Hands on experience with IPSLA - Voice specific

An understanding of Voice design and implementation concepts

Extensive and demonstrated knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including LAN and WAN Services

High-level communications and stakeholder liaison and management skills to engage various Metricon business areas

If you feel you can have an impact and contribute to this iconic Australian business, demonstrating how you have the skills and attributes above, please apply with your Cover Letter and Resume now.

This role requires a national police check to be undertaken.