Senior Network Engineer

This position is open to all permanent, temporary and casual NSW Health employees

Senior Network Engineer (Health Manager Level 4) 

• Temporary Full-Time Exempt for up to 12 months
• Hybrid flexibility for work-life balance | Chatswood, Charlestown
• Attractive salary, from $147,653 up to $175,917 + 12% Super + 17.5% annual leave loading
• Up to 12 extra days off per year + 4 weeks annual leave
• Increase your take home pay with salary packaging, meal allowance, fitness passport and more
• Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation

Applications Close: 11:59pm, Wednesday 29th April 2026

About Us – eHealth NSW
At eHealth NSW, we’re leading the digital transformation of Australia’s largest health system. As NSW Health’s digital centre of excellence, we design, build and support world-class ICT solutions that improve patient care across the state.

Guided by a Cloud First Strategy, we’re harnessing digital technology to better patient care and deliver scalable, quality, patient-centred, digital healthcare. With your skills and experience, you can help enrich the lives of millions while developing your career within Australia’s largest health organisation—alongside passionate tech professionals, health partners and industry leaders building solutions that truly make a difference.

About the Opportunity
As a Senior Engineer, this role focuses on the design and deployment of enterprise WiFi solutions across campus environments, ensuring high performance, scalability, and secure access. Working with engineering leadership, it translates business and technical requirements into robust wireless designs aligned with enterprise standards. The position enables seamless connectivity and supports automation, monitoring, and continuous optimisation to maintain reliable and efficient wireless services, while acting as a key escalation point for complex WiFi-related issues.

In this role, you will:

• Work along with Principal Engineer & Product Owner to gather customer, business, operational, and technical requirements for campus networking solutions.
• Provide technical advisory and architectural guidance to internal teams and customers on Campus Access technologies including Wired, Wireless, NAC, and network automation platforms.
• Work along with Principal Engineer & Product Owner to prepare High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD) that align with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and operational requirements.
• Independently implement Campus Access solutions - Wired, Wireless, Guest, BYOD and IoT.
• Leverage existing automation platforms to support provisioning, software lifecycle management, assurance, and telemetry-driven insights.
• Implement identity-based access control solutions for users and devices, supporting secure onboarding for corporate, guest, BYOD, and IoT devices.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging networking technologies and industry best practices to improve enterprise campus networking services.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of enterprise network services and products, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex incidents and problems related to Campus Access technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to deliver integrated networking solutions.
• Drive operational excellence by analysing service performance, identifying improvement opportunities, and enhancing network reliability.
• Ensure compliance with organisational governance frameworks, including change management, incident management, and operational processes.
• Develop technical documentation, deployment standards, and best practice guidelines to support consistent implementation and operations.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to support capability development within the team and across the organisation.

   

   

About You
We are looking for someone who has:

1. Extensive experience in designing and planning deployments or expansions and managing the support and maintenance of network infrastructure in a large and complex service industry organisation, including relevant qualifications or the equivalent.
2. Extensive experience in the development and implementation of maintenance programs, including managing change to improve the performance & capacity of the network. 
3. Demonstrated experience in presenting network related information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including influencing decisions to ensure that complex information is simplified and communicated effectively.  

4. Demonstrated experience in analysing and interpreting information to prepare reports, for the purpose of achieving business focused solutions. 

    

    

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Working at eHealth
Our people are at the heart of who we are. We support our people with great benefits so they can enrich health in millions of ways every day:

• Flexible work options
• Professional growth and career development
• Allocated day off per month
• Salary packaging 
• Various health and wellbeing programs to support our team

How to apply
Share with us your cover letter and most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience.

We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we accept their use, we’re eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application!

For further discussions around the role or recruitment process, including adjustments, please contact our Talent Advisor at Hayley.Cheng@health.nsw.gov.au or Hiring Manager, Shannon Cooper, at Shannon.Cooper2@health.nsw.gov.au and quote REQ649183.

We will review all applications after the closing date. If your application is successful, you may be invited to take part in additional assessments as part of the recruitment process.

Additional information

• This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months. 
• To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).
• 'Exempt' is defined as a fixed term contract with a length greater than 13 weeks.
• If you currently reside outside NSW, please confirm in your application your willingness to relocate if successful.