Role: Technical Network Engineer – Cisco Projects Lead
Location: Regional Queensland (ideally onsite but will consider options for the right candidate – must be onsite during the build phase)
Duration: Permanent
Salary: $100,000 + Super + $6,000 one-off relocation fee
Talent Street is looking for a Technical Network Engineer for one of our clients in the local government in regional QLD.
About the role:
The Technical Network Engineer will lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the client's network for a brand-new multi-storey civic building.
Own technical solutioning, implementation plans, vendor orchestration, site staging, commissioning and rigorous testing, then deliver a polished handover to ICT BAU operations.
Champion resilience, airtight secure access, effortless scalability and compliance with public-sector procurement and building standards while shaping the digital backbone that powers services, community spaces and staff productivity.
Consider this role if you are:
- An experienced Technical Network Engineer with deep Cisco and fibre WAN expertise and a track record delivering complex civic infrastructure, this is a rare chance to lead a high-profile flagship project with lasting community impact.
- Want to be part of a high functioning project team with fast decision cycles.
- Can lead a technically broad, high-visibility build delivering tangible community outcomes.
- Desire clear scope and autonomy to shape LAN and WAN designs end-to-end, including fibre strategy execution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead discovery, multi-floor site surveys and capacity planning, including MDF/IDF placement, riser provisioning and floor-by-floor cabling strategies.
- Architect Layer 2/Layer 3 solutions on Cisco Catalyst/Nexus: VLAN design, VRFs, inter-floor routing, aggregation and HA switch topologies.
- Design campus switching and routing to support redundant uplinks, PoE for APs/telephony and predictable QoS for critical services.
- Deploy Cisco ISE for role-based access across staff, contractors, public Wi-Fi and IoT/OT with guest segmentation and profiling.
- Plan and implement Catalyst Center / DNA Center automation for device onboarding, image management, assurance and day-one consistency.
- Specify and validate building fibre and copper infrastructure: backbone fibre, patching, cable trays, labelling, rack elevations, and comms-room power/environmental needs.
- Create migration and staged cutover plans with rollback procedures, acceptance criteria and minimal service disruption during occupancy.
- Run acceptance testing, validation and performance tuning across wired and wireless domains, including PoE load tests, link aggregation, OSPF/BGP/VRF behaviour and Wi-Fi heatmap verification.
- Produce comprehensive deliverables: design docs, riser diagrams, floor maps, test logs, commissioning certificates, risk registers and handover runbooks suitable for audit and asset management.
- Coordinate project stakeholders: facilities, builders, procurement, security, vendors and community services to align timelines and budgets.
- Lead technical workshops and deliver structured knowledge transfer to ICT operations, site managers and maintenance teams.
- Enact the council's fibre-optic WAN strategy: translate strategy into implementation, manage vendor delivery, validate handbacks and integrate WAN services with the new building network.
- Conduct a full fibre-optic WAN audit: map existing fibre assets and logical links, validate physical terminations, capacity, SLAs and resilience, identify single points of failure and provide a remediation roadmap.
- Target architecture and design pack (network, cabling and rack drawings).
- Procurement-ready specification and vendor evaluation criteria for LAN and WAN fibre works.
- Fibre WAN audit report: asset map, test results, capacity/health assessment, risk register and remediation plan.
- Migration roadmap, staged cutover schedules and rollback plans.
- Commissioning and test reports (wired + wireless), heatmaps and tuning logs.
- Complete handover package: as-built configs, runbooks, training materials and negotiated post-cutover support window.
Required experience and skills:
- Minimum CCNA; CCNP or equivalent preferred.
- 5+ years delivering Cisco network projects (Catalyst, Nexus, ISE, DNA/Catalyst Center) with multi-floor or multi-site build experience.
- Proven Layer-3 architecture skills: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and HA aggregation topologies.
- Experience designing and validating structured cabling and fibre backbones, PoE and comms-room planning.
- Practical Cisco ISE design and enforcement (802.1X, MAB, guest access).
- Demonstrated experience delivering WAN fibre projects and conducting fibre audits (OTDR/LL testing, end-to-end verification).
- Strong cutover, acceptance testing and post-deployment tuning experience in live environments.
- Proficiency with packet analysis and wireless validation tools (Wireshark/tcpdump, heatmapping).
- Excellent documentation, procurement liaison and stakeholder engagement skills.
- CCNP/CCIE or equivalent advanced certification.
- High-density public Wi-Fi, OT/IoT/BMS segmentation experience.
- Prior work under local government procurement and building-code frameworks.
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