Senior Systems Engineer

Are you looking for an awesome place to work, where you can proudly be your authentic self, and be part of #oneteam?

We are looking for a passionate team player who aligns with our values and culture, takes pride in their unique contributions, and can challenge the status quo with disruptive thinking. If this sounds like you, come and join us!

The Opportunity
Ready to take your next big step? Join Vocus as a Senior Systems Engineer and help shape the future of our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you’ll work closely with the Cloud Engineering Lead to design and implement cutting-edge compute environments and management services that power our business.
You’ll be at the forefront of driving automation and repeatability, collaborating with talented teams across the organisation to translate requirements into best-practice solutions. This is your chance to make a real impact—building scalable, secure, and efficient systems that enable innovation and growth.
What you’ll be doing day-to-day

• Shape the future of Vocus infrastructure by designing, planning, and implementing compute systems and services using secure design principles and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Lead innovation by identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability through new technologies and smarter solutions.
• Be the source of clarity by creating and maintaining high-quality technical documentation and reports that guide teams and stakeholders.
• Enable seamless operations by working closely with cross-functional teams to transition systems and services into production environments.
• Set the standard by defining and promoting industry best practices for system use, maintenance, and optimisation.
• Keep systems performing at their peak through proactive monitoring and performance tuning.
• Drive collaboration and shared success by partnering effectively with teams across the organisation to deliver robust, future-ready solutions.

What you’ll bring to this role

• To be successful in this role as the Senior Systems Engineer, you will have proven experience and the ability to design and implement secure, resilient, scalable, high performance and cost-effective solutions.
• Detailed understanding of the design of enterprise-grade configuration management and orchestration systems including:
• IaC and configuration management: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes or equivalents
• Source code control: Git
• Knowledge of installation and configuration of Linux and Windows servers.
• Detailed understanding of infrastructure models and technologies.
• Detailed understanding of monitoring and observability solutions.
• Strong scripting/programming skills such as Python, Powershell, Bash or equivalents

What We Offer
Working at Vocus will give you rewarding experiences and the opportunity to do extraordinary work. You will enjoy:

• Diverse and dynamic teams with a supportive and inclusive culture.
• Supportive career development plans with comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities.
• Flexible hours and a hybrid working environment
• Generous discounts on power, gas, mobile and internet; plus, discounts to over 400 retailers.
• Competitive leave options, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and 5 extra days of Vocus leave each year, plus more.
• Study assistance programs to excel your personal growth, learning and development.
• Health and wellness offerings, including access to our wellbeing initiatives that can help you from a financial, psychological, and physical perspective.

Working at Vocus is never just a job – it’s personal. We’re crazy about our customers and believe our people are the difference. Our wonderfully diverse team and a vibrant culture define us. We care about the impact we have on our people, our customers, and our communities and are committed to operating as a responsible, ethical business.
We pride ourselves on setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives.
With us, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and inspire teams, work on projects that are shaping the future of telecommunications and become part of a culture that thrives on creativity, encourages new ideas, and provides a collaborative and inclusive environment.
About Us
As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world. Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.
Ready to take the next step?
If you like the sound of this role and think you’d do a great job, but are worried you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to back yourself – we know that diverse groups are less-likely to apply for roles they’re not 100% qualified for, but just as likely to succeed at them!
We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong. We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.
If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process.