The Details:
- Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
- From $117,990pa + 12% super (level 7) - with a 4.5% increase coming 1 July
- 72.5 hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Strathpine
Join City of Moreton Bay as a Principal Infrastructure Engineer and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.
We are looking for an experienced Principal Infrastructure Engineer to provide technical leadership across our ICT network environment. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the design, delivery, and optimisation of critical infrastructure that supports our community, operations, and future growth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide technical leadership and direction for the maintenance and enhancement of ICT systems
- Design, plan and implement secure, high-performing network solutions
- Research and advise on emerging technologies and industry best practices
- Act as a senior escalation point, supporting complex troubleshooting and incident resolution
- Lead and contribute to ICT infrastructure projects from planning through to delivery
- Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation
- Analyse performance data to support capacity planning, security compliance, and continuous improvement
- Mentor and support team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
About you
As a key member of our ICT Infrastructure & Security team, you will lead the development and support of enterprise network solutions, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with our strategic direction. You will act as a senior technical expert and escalation point, guiding projects and mentoring others while driving innovation across our technology landscape.
To succeed in this role, you will have:
- Extensive experience managing complex ICT infrastructure environments, including enterprise-scale networks and systems
- Advanced expertise in networking technologies (LAN/WAN, routing, switching, wireless) and network design
- Strong capability in network security, including firewalls, VPNs, and threat mitigation practices
- Proven experience with cloud and hybrid environments (e.g. Azure or AWS)
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and optimise scalable and secure infrastructure solutions
- High-level troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis of critical incidents
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and escalation support within ICT teams
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes
Position Description_Principal Infrastructure Engineer.pdf
Why City of Moreton Bay?
What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.
We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.
This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.
At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.
Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:
- See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
- Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.
You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:
- Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
- Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA - 4.5% in July 2026 and a further 4% in July 2027 (or CPI capped at 4.5%, whichever is greater).
- Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
- Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
- Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
- Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.
- Our Strathpine office has local parking on site and is close to public transport networks, making for an easy commute.
Ready for a career that matters?
Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.
As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.
To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at [email protected].
Your Future City.
See it. Shape it. Live It.
City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
