Principal Network Engineer

📍 Location: Sydney CBD | Hybrid

📅 Contract: Fixed-Term Contract until 30 April 2028

🚀 Start Date: ASAP

🏢 Industry: Financial Services / Banking

Indigeco is seeking an experienced Principal Network DevOps Engineer to join a leading financial services organisation in Sydney.

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior technical professional who combines strong Cisco enterprise networking expertise with hands-on DevOps and network automation experience.

The successful candidate will play a key role in a significant Network Vulnerability Management and Hardening uplift, providing technical leadership while remaining actively involved in engineering and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, architect and enhance complex enterprise network infrastructure.
• Lead network automation initiatives using Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Network as Code (NaC) frameworks.
• Integrate Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment controls into network operations.
• Drive network security, vulnerability remediation, hardening, and standardisation.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Network DevOps Engineers.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security, Architecture, Operations and technology teams.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience with Cisco enterprise networking and architecture.
• Strong network automation and DevOps engineering capabilities.
• Advanced experience with Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of routing, switching, BGP, WAN, and SD-WAN.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise network automation frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with network security, vulnerability management, and hardening.
• Proven technical leadership while remaining hands-on.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Highly Desirable

• Cisco ACI, Catalyst Center, Cisco FMC, and F5 BIG-IP.
• Experience in large-scale banking or financial services environments.
• Cloud networking, DevSecOps, and SRE experience.
• CCIE, CCNP, Cisco DevNet or relevant cloud/networking certifications.

Please note: We are specifically looking for professionals with strong expertise in BOTH Cisco networking and DevOps automation, rather than candidates specialising in only one area.

Work Arrangements

• Hybrid working arrangement with approximately 50% office attendance.
• Sydney CBD
• Tuesday and Thursday anchor days.

Interested?

If you have the right combination of Cisco networking, DevOps automation and technical leadership experience, we'd love to hear from you!

Please reach out to Priya at Indigeco via LinkedIn or share your updated CV to discuss this opportunity.

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