The Company Join a well-established university organisation with a strong reputation for innovation, research, and delivering meaningful outcomes through education. Based in Sydney CBD, 2000 , the organisation offers a convenient central location with hybrid working in place. You'll be part of a collaborative technology team that supports critical systems and services used by academic staff, professional teams, and students. The environment is complex, enterprise-scale, and purpose-driven, offering the chance to work across modern infrastructure while contributing to an organisation that has real community impact. This is a permanent opportunity for a Systems Engineer who wants stability, interesting project work, and the chance to help shape and improve core technology services. The Role Support, administer, and improve core infrastructure across server, cloud, virtualisation, storage, backup, and identity environments. Maintain the performance, availability, and security of enterprise systems that underpin day-to-day university operations. Provide strong BAU systems support while also contributing to infrastructure uplift, upgrade, and transformation projects. Monitor systems, troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to improve reliability. Work across technologies such as Windows Server, Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, VMware, backup platforms, and related infrastructure tools. Support patching, system upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and security best practice across the environment. Contribute to disaster recovery, backup integrity, business continuity, and capacity planning activities. Partner with internal stakeholders and IT teams to deliver effective technical solutions and a high standard of service. Create and maintain clear technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures. Identify opportunities for automation, optimisation, and continuous improvement across systems and processes. About You Proven experience in a Systems Engineer , Systems Administrator, or similar infrastructure-focused role. Strong hands-on experience supporting enterprise systems across on-prem and cloud environments. Solid knowledge of technologies such as Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure, Microsoft 365, VMware , storage, and backup solutions. Experience supporting core infrastructure in a medium to large, multi-user environment. Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to prioritise issues and work methodically through technical problems. Good understanding of infrastructure security, patching, access management, backup, and disaster recovery principles. Comfortable balancing operational support with project-based work and continuous improvement initiatives. Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. A proactive, service-oriented approach with a genuine interest in delivering reliable and secure technology outcomes. Experience working in education, university, or similarly complex environments will be highly regarded. Reference Number: 06800-0013403286 This is a hybrid position. By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. For further information on how Robert Half processes your personal information and how to access and correct your information, please read the Robert Half privacy notice: https://www.roberthalf.com/au/en/privacy. Please do not submit any sensitive personal data to us in your resume (such as government ID numbers, ethnicity, gender, religion, marital status or trade union membership) as we do not collect your sensitive personal data at this time.