System Administrator Storage

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Role highlights

• Support nationally significant research storage infrastructure at Pawsey
• 12-month opportunity to work with large‑scale storage platforms
• Gain experience within a highly skilled platforms and systems team

The opportunity 

The System Administrator Storage opportunity sits within Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s Platforms Team, which is responsible for maintaining and operating critical storage infrastructure used by researchers across Australia. Pawsey is a world‑class national facility operated by CSIRO on behalf of its university partners and government stakeholders.

As part of a team of experienced system administrators and technical specialists, you will support the reliability, performance and service delivery of Pawsey’s long‑term storage platforms and associated services, ensuring they meet agreed service expectations.

The role will be primarily hands‑on and onsite in Perth, involving work with physical servers, network fibre, disk and tape hardware. Success in this role will require strong collaboration, ticket management and close coordination with Pawsey colleagues and service partners.

Your high-level duties will include: 

• Provide systems support for operation and maintenance of Pawsey Banksia storage infrastructure which includes: 
  - Spectralogic Enterprise tape storage in T-Finity tape Libraries, 
  - Versity software, 
  - ScoutFS archive filesystem,
  - Banksia file system storage infrastructure - DDN 7990 disk arrays,
  - Banksia system backups,
  - ScoutFS metadata backups, 
  - Kafka message bus, keycloak, monitoring and logging systems for Banksia (on Linux) 
• Undertake problem solving for the Banksia storage system, services and workflows ensuring maximum uptime for Banksia operation.
• Ensure effective responses to Banksia system support issues via ticketing system.
• Ensure effective documentation for Banksia systems support and operating procedures.

Role particulars

Location: Kensington, WA

Salary: AU$100k – AU$113k per annum (pro-rata for part-time) + 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Specified term of 12-months, Full-time (Part-time considered)

Reference: 102911

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

• Tertiary or graduate qualification in Science, Computing or Engineering, or equivalent experience. 
• Experience in the administration of Linux or Unix systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to use these skills to engage effectively with colleagues and clients.
• The ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team under the general guidance of senior technical staff.
• The ability and willingness to contribute novel ideas and approaches in support of providing computing services to researchers or clients.
• Experience providing IT support through a ticket management system, including triaging, prioritising, resolving and escalating incidents in line with service levels. 
  
  

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the Position Description. 

Not sure if you meet all the criteria?

While it is CSIRO policy that the successful candidate must meet all the essential criteria, there are many ways to demonstrate this. Don’t let the list discourage you. If you are unsure about applying, please reach out to the contact person in the Position Description.

Setting you up for success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. Please reach out to the contact person listed in the Position Description and let us know how we can support you.  

Eligibility 

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents or you must hold a valid working visa for the duration of your appointment. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.   

Child safety 

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How to apply 

Please apply online and submit a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) and CV that demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the essential requirements of this role.

Applications close 

10th May 2026, 11pm AEST.