Job Description

Role: Technical Network Engineer – Cisco Projects Lead

Location: Hervey Bay, Queensland

Duration: Contract – 12 months   

Talent Street is looking for a Technical Network Engineer for one of our clients in the local government in Hervey Bay QLD.

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.

Desirable expertise:

• CCNP/CCIE or equivalent advanced certification.
• SDA/SD‑Access, VXLAN/EVPN, Nexus/data‑centre integration.
• High‑density public Wi‑Fi, OT/IoT/BMS segmentation experience.
• Prior work under local government procurement and building‑code frameworks.

Please apply now or contact Cheska Mitra, Delivery Consultant @ Talent Street on  cmitra@talentstreet.com.au for further information.