Senior Systems Engineer – Telco Automation, Observability
Macquarie Technology Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • 🇦🇺 Australia
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Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleFirewallsGoGrafanaLinuxMariaDBNode.jsPostgresPrometheusPythonReactServiceNowSwitchingVMware
About the role
- Design, build, test and implement automation workflows to monitor network health, report key metrics, manage configs and ensure compliance
- Integrate and support tooling like Icinga, Grafana, NetBox, PowerDNS, Telegraf/Prometheus, Ansible
- Build automated workflows for network incident & event management
- Maintain upgrades, patching and DR/restoration testing
- Report/manage (and where possible automate) remediation of compliance gaps between infrastructure under management and billing systems
- Build bespoke apps/databases to support stakeholders
- Partner with Product/Engineering to launch new network offerings (SDWAN / SDLAN / SD Firewall)
- Ideate and implement AI into workflows (fault/change/config management)
- Document, train and champion a DevOps approach across the team
Requirements
- ~**5+ years** across network/system administration, DevOps and/or software engineering
- Strong automation: **Bash, Python, REST APIs, Ansible**
- **Linux** sysadmin experience
- DB admin capability: **Postgres, MariaDB, Galera Cluster**
- **ServiceNow** workflow automation experience (fault/change/inventory)
- Strong networking fundamentals (**switching/routing/firewalls; security/network devices**)
- **Nice to have:** NodeJS / React / Go, AI agent development, VMware / SAN, large vendor NMS exposure
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Hard skills
BashPythonREST APIsAnsibleLinuxPostgresMariaDBGalera ClusterServiceNownetworking fundamentals
Soft skills
automationdocumentationtrainingchampioning DevOps