Senior Network Engineer
Senior Network Engineer – HWAN Delivery Team (Health Manager Level 4)
- Temporary Full Time for up to 12 months, potential for ongoing
- Chatswood, St Leonards, or Charlestown
- In-office presence with hybrid flexibility for work-life balance
- Attractive salary, $175,917X + 12% Super and annual leave loading
- Join the team supporting network deployment and upgrades at various LHDs
Applications Close: 11:59pm, 23 November 2025
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 Senior Network Engineer in the HWAN Delivery Team, eHealth NSW, you will play a key role in supporting and securing network infrastructure across NSW Health. You will collaborate with internal teams, customers and vendors to deliver and resolve complex network issues.
This role involves mentoring junior engineers, configuring and managing network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, out-of-band tools like Cisco, Fortinet, Cradlepoint, OpenGear), performing and overseeing network migrations, upgrades, and decommissions. There may be occasional after-hours work to support network initiatives.
In this role, you will:
- Generate and apply configuration to network devices within a mixed-vendor environment
- Create technical training content and train junior network engineers.
- Migrate, upgrade, and decommission networks for eHealth NSW and its customers.
- Create Network designs, complete technical handover checklists, change implementation plans and other artefacts required by the project.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, eHealth NSW customers and third-party vendors to plan, test, troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
- Review and approve network changes, ensuring stability and strict adherence to Change Management processes.
- Ensure network monitoring and maintain up-to-date documentation.
- Participate in planning meetings to coordinate changes and migrations.
- Manage IP subnet allocations across WAN and LAN environments.
About You
We’re looking for someone who combines technical expertise with strong communication skills. You’ll ideally have:
- Cisco CCNP (Routing & Switching) or equivalent experience
- Advanced knowledge of BGP routing, MPLS, and tunneling protocols (GRE, IPSec)
- Experience with FortiGate/FortiManager, network monitoring (SNMP, SolarWinds), and IPv4 management (DHCP, Infoblox)
- Network automation experience preferred (Ansible, Jenkins, Python scripting)
- Experience in managing tasks in Servicenow and documenting work.
- Exposure to Agile – Kanban way of working is an added advantage.
- Attention to detail, a collaborative mindset and commitment to continuous learning
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 to this role.
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 or Hiring Manager, Daniel J and quote REQ622742.
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.
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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 such as flexible work options, professional growth and career development, allocated day off per month, salary packaging and various health and wellbeing programs to support our team.
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).
- If you reside outside of NSW, please confirm in your application you are willing to relocate should you be successful for the role
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