There are consultancies that hire a junior to babysit the help desk. And then there's this one, who'll hand you real infrastructure and back you to grow into it.
Founded by practitioners with serious operational backgrounds, this is a specialist Aussie cybersecurity company working with nationally significant clients on some of the most technically demanding security problems in the country. Not a box-ticking outfit. They build things that work, and they leave clients stronger than they found them.
At low double-digit headcount, they're small enough to move fast and large enough to take on serious work. They're growing - deliberately, demand-led - and this hire is a direct result of a full pipeline and a practice that's kicking important goals.
The role You'll be the engineer behind the business’ own infrastructure, with the door open to involvement in client project delivery as the practice grows and as you do. What that looks like:
- Designing and maintaining hybrid infrastructure, on-prem and across Azure, AWS and GCP
- Administering and hardening Linux and Windows environments
- Building out identity and access (Entra ID, SSO, RBAC)
- Managing networking: VPNs, remote access, segmentation, hybrid connectivity
- Automating with Terraform and Ansible rather than doing it by hand every time
- Monitoring system health and feeding good logging into SIEM and monitoring tools
- Reviewing environments for security, cost, and general operational sanity
You won’t need mastery across every one of these on day one. You will need to be genuinely willing to work across all of them, and keen to build depth as you go.
Who might you be? Early to mid-career, hungry for broader responsibility rather than narrower specialisation. You'll need:
- Solid grounding in Linux and Windows Server administration
- Some exposure to at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP)
- An interest in identity and access management, even if you haven't owned it end to end yet
- Comfort with scripting (Python, Bash or PowerShell)
- Strong troubleshooting instincts and a willingness to ask questions rather than guess
- Solid communication skills, you'll be working alongside both internal teams and, at times, clients
- Australian citizenship (non-negotiable, government work involved)
The detail Salary: Base of ~$100k - $160k + super, depending on experience. The range is wide because the appetite for talent is too.
Location: Canberra. On-site and in-office required in a hybrid WFH setup.
Flexibility: Starting point is two days WFH per week, but they're adult about it. Move your hours around, life happens. Get the work done and nobody's watching the clock.
Training: Not only a culture of training (and some deep vendor partner training) but dedicated time to pursue it. Genuine support for development, not just lip service.
Why this role This is a rare chance to get real ownership of infrastructure earlier in your career, rather than spending years on tickets before anyone lets you near design decisions. Small, senior, non-hierarchical team, where you're expected to think and ask questions, not just execute. If you want to build serious infrastructure and security chops in an environment that'll actually invest in you, this is the place to do it.
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