Job Description:
About the role
St Vincent’s Health Australia has committed, through Strategy 2030, to connecting care across its public hospitals, private hospitals, aged care and virtual care services, with half of all care delivered virtually or in people’s homes by 2030.
To support this, we’re moving to a cloud-delivered SASE/SSE platform built on Zero Trust principles. It will give our clinicians and staff secure, reliable access to the systems they need, wherever they work.
As our Network Engineer (SASE), you’ll engineer, implement and operate this platform, turning approved architecture into reliable, supportable services. During implementation you’ll lead the engineering workstream. Once the platform is in operation, you’ll own its health, performance and continual improvement.
You will:
- Engineer and operate secure web access, ZTNA, CASB, DLP and secure remote access services.
- work with the technical engineering workstream through implementation and migration, and the handover into operations.
- Integrate SASE with SD-WAN, firewalls, identity, endpoint and cloud platforms.
- Be a senior escalation point for complex secure access incidents in a 24/7 healthcare environment.
Key responsibilities of the role
- Engineer, configure and administer SASE/SSE capabilities in line with approved architecture and change controls, including: policycertificatesconnectorstraffic forwardingintegrations
- Translate approved architecture into the following: configuration standardstest plansmigration approachesoperational acceptance criteria
- Guide PoC, build, integration, testing, pilot and deployment activities, and assure vendor and partner deliverables.
- Engineer resilient integration across SD-WAN, routing, IPsec/GRE tunnels, firewalls, DNS and SSL/TLS inspection.
- Implement identity-centric access controls using Entra ID, SAML/SCIM and device posture, and support agentless clinical, biomedical, IoT and OT use cases.
- Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex cross-domain faults, including traffic steering, authentication, certificate pinning, asymmetric routing and MTU issues.
- Plan and execute complex changes, upgrades and migrations, and take part in the on-call roster and planned after-hours work.
- Build monitoring, automation (scripting, vendor APIs, IaC/policy-as-code) and runbooks, and coach engineers across Network & Communications.
Things that work for us
- Substantial hands-on network security engineering experience in large, complex, multi-site, high-availability environments.
- Demonstrated experience implementing, operating and troubleshooting enterprise SASE/SSE or comparable secure access services, such as: SWG and web filteringZTNA and CASBsecure remote accessSSL/TLS inspection
- Hands-on experience with traffic forwarding methods such as endpoint agents, PAC files and IPsec/GRE tunnels, including resilient failover.
- Strong network fundamentals across routing, WAN/SD-WAN, BGP, DNS, TCP/IP, high availability and firewall integration.
- Advanced cross-domain troubleshooting, with experience leading recovery and root cause analysis for high-priority incidents.
- Experience producing technical designs, test plans, implementation and rollback plans, and runbooks.
- Ability to automate repeatable tasks using scripting, vendor APIs or infrastructure-as-code.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences, and the ability to work autonomously in a matrix organisation.
- Tertiary qualification in IT or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- A professional-level networking or security certification (e.g. CCNP Security or Enterprise) and a SASE/SSE platform certification are highly regarded.
- Experience with platforms such as Netskope, Zscaler, Cisco Secure Access, Palo Alto Prisma Access is a plus.
- Experience in healthcare or another regulated sector is also a plus.
Things that work for you
- Permanent, full-time role based in Melbourne with hybrid working (minimum two day a week on site)
- Competitive salary packaging options
- Discounted private health insurance
- Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families
- Access to the Fitness Passport (FP)
Why become part of St Vincent’s Health Australia
Because you’re like us, you believe in our vision that every person, whoever and wherever they are, is served with excellent and compassionate care, by a better and fairer health and aged care system. Better for all our people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest levels of care and quality of life for our patients and clients. And better support for the local communities we play an important role in and continue to support.
Reconciliation Action Plan
As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For further information, visit http://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.
Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.
Interested? Apply today and please note - we will be progressing applications throughout the advertising period.
Respectfully, no recruitment agencies.
Closing Date:
6 December 2026 11:59pm
Reconciliation Action Plan:
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
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