System Administrator
A$118,000 – A$127,000 / yr base salary
Posted 14 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior System Administrator Storage”
BranchFactor Summary
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Contract
- Contract
| Base salary | A$118,000 – A$127,000 / yr |
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Field of studyComputing, Engineering, Science
Study levelBachelor's or higher
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Role highlights
- Join one of Australia's leading supercomputing and research infrastructure organisations
- Provide technical leadership across systems support for large-scale storage platforms
- **Be part of a highly skilled team delivering critical national research infrastructure
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About CSIRO
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The opportunity
Join Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s Scientific Platforms Team and help deliver the storage infrastructure that underpins Australia's national research computing capability.
As a Senior System Administrator Storage you will you will play a key role in maintaining and continuously improving the large-scale storage platforms that support Australia's researchers. Working as part of a highly skilled team, you will provide technical leadership on systems support across complex storage environments designed to deliver reliable, resilient and long-term access to research data.
A key focus of the role will be supporting Pawsey's major storage platforms, including Acacia, one of the world's largest research object storage systems built on Ceph, and Banksia, a large-scale tape archive storing more than 170PB of research data.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge storage and HPC technologies while contributing to research outcomes of national importance.
Your high-level duties will include:
- Leading the operation, maintenance and optimisation of Pawsey's object storage and archive infrastructure.
- Undertaking complex troubleshooting, problem resolution and continuous improvement activities across storage services and supporting systems.