# Senior Network Engineer, Australia

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Sydney, New South Wales
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Network Engineer at Airwallex, you will own critical network infrastructure and help shape the systems, practices and team capabilities that support our people across regions.

Responsibilities:

- Build the foundations of Airwallex's corporate network and help shape the team structure and capabilities needed as we grow.

- Design, deploy and maintain secure, highly available LAN, WAN, wireless and VPN infrastructure across our global offices and regions.

- Design multi-region hybrid network patterns connecting physical offices, data centres and cloud environments, including AWS and Alibaba Cloud.

- Configure and operate global connectivity across international leased lines and domestic internet connections, working across mixed-vendor environments.

- Lead the configuration and troubleshooting of routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers and wireless access points.

- Own CorpNet as a first responder and escalation point for complex network incidents, taking issues through to resolution and completing after-action reviews.

- Partner with CorpSec, ProdSec, Engineering, Product, IT Engineering, Workplace and other teams to integrate network solutions and support business initiatives.

- Work with IT Engineering and IT Support to troubleshoot endpoint network issues and build core networking capability across the team.

- Use infrastructure-as-code and automation, including Terraform and Ansible, to improve network consistency and operational efficiency.

- Develop and maintain network documentation, including diagrams, configurations and operational procedures.

- Evaluate networking technologies and solutions that support Airwallex's continued growth.

- Mentor and coach network engineers, share knowledge, support skill development, manage performance and help attract strong talent.

- Participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation for corporate networking issues, with occasional after-hours or weekend work for network upgrades where needed to minimise business disruption.

Requirements:

- Senior-level experience designing, implementing and maintaining Juniper and Palo Alto Networks solutions.

- Demonstrated experience working in a global, multi-vendor networking environment, including technologies such as 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; hardware experience is a plus, including Juniper Mist, Cisco Meraki or Aruba.

- 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 when supporting a global business.

Preferred Skills:

- 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 in security and corporate IT environments.

- Experience working with SaaS-based systems and applications.

- Strong understanding of MDM systems across macOS and Windows, including Kandji, Jamf and Intune.

## Skills

### Required
- Juniper
- Palo Alto Networks
- networking
- Wi-Fi technology
- endpoint engineering
- command-line configuration
- troubleshooting
- English communication

### Nice to have
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect
- Prisma
- Prisma Cloud
- team management
- bachelor's degree in IT or CS
- cloud infrastructure
- identity standards
- SaaS-based systems
- MDM systems

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