Senior Systems Engineer

This is a 3-Month Full-Time fixed term contract with potential to extend upon its conclusion.

About Compnow:

At Compnow, we're more than a leading Australian technology provider. We're a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and trusted advisors helping organisations unlock the full potential of technology.

For more than three decades, we've partnered with businesses across the country to deliver tailored IT solutions, from end-user computing and managed services to complex infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and lifecycle solutions. Our success has been built on strong relationships, exceptional customer experiences, and a commitment to doing what we say we'll do.

As a privately owned and nationally recognised technology business, we've created a culture where people are empowered to make an impact, challenge the status quo, and build rewarding long-term careers. We know that great people are the key to our success, which is why we invest heavily in our team, celebrate achievements, and create genuine opportunities for growth.

Why Compnow?

Every Voice Counts – When you join our team, your skills and ideas will be welcomed.

Be Remarkable – Your contribution is key to our success. You don’t stop growing, neither do we.

Do What’s Right – We make a point of keeping our skills current and increasing our impact.

Create Connections – Your manager acts as a mentor to help guide you and your career.

Our business rewards hard-work and initiative. We supply you with the building blocks you need to grow. Internal career opportunities are possible in the long term to grow with our company.

Perks and benefits:

• A free day of leave on your birthday
• Five weeks annual leave incentive
• Employee discounts on IT Equipment
• Employee discounts on accommodation in Bali, Indonesia
• Training programs designed for you
• Long term career pathways

What you’ll do?

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on technical lead responsible for supporting, stabilising and improving a complex infrastructure environment. You’ll work across servers and virtualisation, backup and recovery, identity, storage and networking, taking ownership of issues while knowing when to bring in specialist expertise.Support, maintain and troubleshoot server, virtualisation, virtual desktop and application delivery environments.  Experience with Entra ID, directory synchronisation, Azure or AWS, deeper networking and security technologies, or voice and unified communications would be highly regarded.

• Manage Active Directory, authentication and federated identity services and their dependencies.
• Support shared storage, virtual infrastructure datastores and capacity requirements.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure incidents and service requests while coordinating with external providers where required.
• Review and remediate firewall policies, remote access, network segmentation and infrastructure security requirements.
• Monitor infrastructure health, performance and security events and use diagnostic tools to investigate faults.
• Coordinate server and network patching, maintenance and infrastructure hardening through change management.
• Prepare production changes with clear implementation, validation and rollback plans.

What you’ll bring?

• Strong hands-on experience across Windows Server, virtualisation and infrastructure engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with backup, recovery and validating successful restores.
• Experience working within structured change management processes, including patching, validation and rollback planning.
• Working knowledge of LAN/WAN, wireless, switching, firewalls, secure remote access and network segmentation.
• Working knowledge of enterprise storage, shared storage and virtual infrastructure datastores.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to take ownership of complex technical issues.

What else do you need to apply?

• Travel on-site to our client's site in the Central Coast.
• Must be an Australian resident available to work full time without restrictions.

Compnow will provide and require all successful applicants to complete a current National Police Check as well as a new or updated state-based Working With Children Check.

We are dedicated to a welcoming, inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone - built on merit, great work, ethics and character. And finally – have you made it this far and don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t count yourself out just yet – you may be exactly the person we are looking for and encourage your application.

All submissions will be treated with the strictest confidence. No phone, email, or agency requests. We are a 2026 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.