Systems Engineer - 12 month fixed term contract

Symbio is a software company revolutionizing global communication. Our platform offers a comprehensive communication stack, spanning carrier infrastructure to enterprise collaboration, serving diverse Asia-Pacific regions. Combining telecom and software expertise, we drive the evolution of modern communication.

Symbio operates under the Aussie Broadband Group, a rapidly expanding technology services provider with a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion (AUD), listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: ABB).

We are looking for a System Engineer to join our Connect division in Sydney or Melbourne, reporting to Engineering Manager – Infrastructure.

As a member of the Global Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team delivering new products and capabilities for our customers. You will be responsible for the development and deployment of systems, platforms, & infrastructure for Symbio's voice and data networks globally.

You will focus on driving infrastructure automation and ensure our deployments, both on-prem and cloud (AWS), you are resilient and repeatable across development and production environments. You will work collaboratively within your team and with other Delivery, Software and Infrastructure teams in delivering systems and services as well as ensuring we understand the health of our systems at any point in time to reduce outages.

Help us modernize our tech stack by advocating fit for purpose solutions and enhance the way we work by ensuring our systems are healthy and resilient, with best practice observability & monitoring.

There is an expectation that this role is part of the teams after hours support roster (level 3), which is rotated weekly for production critical platforms. We also understand that we as a team need to do everything we can, to ensure resilient and self-healing platforms and the technology leadership will provide the time to make sure we do.

What you'll need to succeed:

• 5+ years’ experience in a systems or infrastructure engineering role in a Telco/ISP/Large enterprise
• Deep technical knowledge of on-premise infrastructure – compute & storage, virtualisation
• Experience in on-premise systems management including installing, configuring and maintaining bare metal and virtualized systems
• Strong understanding of VMware and cloud management systems (eg. Openstack)
• Good understanding of KVM.
• Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat/CentOS) Systems (Windows a desirable bonus)
• Strong understanding of bash / shell scripting
• Experience with DNS, NTP
• Experience in troubleshooting complex technical issues
• A sense of ownership of technical projects and improvement of engineering practices
• Are curious, motivated, self-learner but are also great team players
• Customer focussed attitude
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills

Desirable:

• Experience in CI/CD tools, pipelines and version control such as Gitlab
• Experience in automating manual processes to drive efficiency with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, etc. (Puppet is a bonus)
• Exposure in public cloud environment/technologies including AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, ELB/ALB
• Scripting experience using Python as well as experience in using data serialization languages such as JSON and YAML
• Understanding of networking architecture and internet protocols
• Understanding of VoIP technologies & protocols
• Proven experience in systems and network design and development

What's it like to work here?
As a Symbion, you have flexibility to shape when, where and how you work. Symbions can choose to be primarily remote, primarily office-based, or a mix of both.

You also have the freedom to shape your development. Every Symbion is able to design a unique and customised learning journey to build new skills and reach career goals.

Plus, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits including share options, generous parental leave,  regular social events, social clubs and a comfortable, fun and diverse working environment.

If this sounds like the next great step in your career, we'd love to hear from you.

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Symbio is an equal opportunity employer. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality. You will need to have current work rights to work in Australia and be prepared to undergo relevant background checks.  No recruiters please.

Life at Symbio

Symbio is committed to a strong culture that is diverse and inclusive and we encourage our employees to bring their whole self to work.

We ensure our employees have equal access to a range of learning and development opportunities, and encourage everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage to embrace these opportunities, enabling them to develop themselves and their career.

Our employee’s happiness, health and wellbeing is important at Symbio.  We provide all employees with flexible working options to ensure that work doesn’t compromise life outside Symbio and also supports their wellbeing.  We regularly enhance our employee benefits such as an employee share gift plan, up to 12 weeks paid parental leave for both parents as the primary carer, reward and recognition programs and social clubs.

At Symbio, our diverse backgrounds and unique experiences allow us to continue to innovate and create the brands, networks and technologies to power the future of global communications.