Senior Network Engineer, Australia

The role

You will own critical network infrastructure and help shape systems, practices, and team capabilities. You will design, deploy, and maintain secure LAN, WAN, wireless, and VPN infrastructure across global offices and regions.

What you will do

• Build the foundations of the corporate network and shape team structure.
• Design, deploy and maintain secure LAN, WAN, wireless and VPN infrastructure.
• Design multi-region hybrid network patterns connecting offices, data centres and cloud environments.
• Configure and operate global connectivity across international leased lines and domestic internet connections.
• Lead configuration and troubleshooting of routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers and wireless access points.
• Act as first responder and escalation point for complex network incidents.
• Partner with various teams to integrate network solutions and support business initiatives.
• Work with IT Engineering and IT Support to troubleshoot endpoint network issues.
• Use infrastructure-as-code and automation including Terraform and Ansible.
• Develop and maintain network documentation.

Required qualifications

• Senior-level experience designing, implementing and maintaining Juniper and Palo Alto Networks solutions.
• Demonstrated experience working in a global, multi-vendor networking environment, including Juniper, Palo Alto, Cisco and Aruba.
• Experience with networking solutions for mainland China and international connectivity.
• Strong fundamentals in Wi-Fi technology and endpoint engineering.
• Expert command-line configuration skills across networking hardware and vendors, including JunOS and IOS.
• Experience operating and troubleshooting complex corporate network environments.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Ability to move quickly and make sound decisions with incomplete information.

Nice to have

• Hardware experience, including Juniper Mist, Cisco Meraki or Aruba.
• Strong knowledge of Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect, Prisma and Prisma Cloud.
• Experience managing or leading a team of network engineers, ideally in a startup or scaling environment.
• A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field, alongside five or more years of relevant experience.
• Understanding of common identity standards, including SAML, OAuth and SSO.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, including AWS or GCP.
• Understanding of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs and common access-management principles.
• Experience working with SaaS-based systems and applications.
• Strong understanding of MDM systems across macOS and Windows, including Kandji, Jamf and Intune.

About the company

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. The company provides financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.