Network Architect | Professional Services
Tender Overview
About this tender
This Tender is invited by the Issuer. DHA will only consider invited sellers, and will not respond to unsolicited contact for this opportunity Defence Housing Australia (DHA) provides quality housing and related services to Defence members and their families. In doing this, DHA supports the operational, recruitment and retention goals of the Department of Defence. DHA is a small to medium-sized government business enterprise (GBE) with approximately 600 staff across 19 offices around Australia, including three contact centres, located in three states. The Business Solutions and Technology (BS&T) team operates from DHA’s head office in Canberra. BS&T are responsible for all software related business analysis, business solutions, in-house software development, telephony, IT services and infrastructure. We deliver business as usual activities and innovation driven initiatives that provide efficiencies to the broader organisation. DHA invites responses from invited sellers to supply 240 hours of Professional Services from a suitably qualified Cloud Network Architect with experience in the following technologies and frameworks: ISM, Essential 8 and PSPF knowledge Cloud workload migration experience Hyper-V Design and Deployment VMware & Nutanix Infrastructure Design, Deployment and Operations Palo Alto Networks Design, Deployment and Operations Aruba Design, Deployment and Operations Cisco Design, Deployment and Operations Citrix Design, Deployment and Operations Azure Design, Deployment and Operations The Cloud Network Architect is required to have: 10+ years' experience Current and active NV1 clearance
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