📅 Contract Length: Initial 6 months (high likelihood of extension) 💰 Rate: Market Rates 📍 Melbourne | Contract Role 🗓️ Start: October 2026
About the RoleThis position will be responsible for the design, deployment, and support of secure SSL/TLS services across enterprise network and application environments, ensuring reliable certificate management, encryption, and compliance requirements are met.
Key Responsibilities✅ Deploy and maintain SSL/TLS certificates across load balancers, firewalls, proxies, and web services
✅ Configure SSL termination, SSL inspection/decryption, certificate authentication, and bridging services
✅ Manage certificate lifecycle activities including CSR generation, renewals, replacements, and revocations
✅ Troubleshoot certificate chains, cipher compatibility issues, handshake failures, and connectivity problems
✅ Develop automation and monitoring solutions to prevent certificate expiry and configuration drift
✅ Maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, and security standards
✅ Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and Application teams to coordinate changes and resolve incidents
Skills & Experience✔ Strong enterprise networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, and load balancing
✔ Hands-on experience with PKI, certificates, TLS protocols, cipher suites, and key management
✔ Experience with technologies such as Zscaler, Palo Alto, F5, Microsoft CA, or similar platforms
✔ Exposure to scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, APIs, or Ansible is highly desirable
✔ Strong troubleshooting and communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
✔ Certifications such as CCNP, PCNSE, or F5 are advantageous
✔ Experience working in regulated or mission-critical environments is beneficial
Why Apply?🌟 Join a large-scale network security transformation project 🌟 Work extensively with SSL/TLS technologies and Zscaler 🌟 Gain exposure to enterprise-level environments while receiving senior engineering support 🌟 Strong likelihood of contract extension
What you need to do now
- If you're interested in this role, click "Apply" or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to Vaibhav at Vaibhav.singh@hays.com.au
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