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L3 Support Engineer DNS

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

L3 escalation point for complex DNS incidents impacting production services, diagnosing critical outages, performance degradation, and security issues.

Role type

Senior L3 Support Engineer (DNS)

Builds

Authoritative and recursive DNS infrastructures

Domain

Networking / DNS

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

DNS protocol internals, BIND, Linux/Unix system administration, TCP/IP, UDP, latency and routing behavior, root cause analysis (RCA), incident management, change management

Preferred skills

Anycast DNS deployments, Unbound, PowerDNS, Knot DNS, automation scripting (Shell, Python, Ansible), monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix)

Technologies

BIND, Unbound, PowerDNS, Knot DNS, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix, Shell, Python, Ansible

Responsibilities

Act as L3 escalation point for complex DNS incidents impacting production services, Diagnose and resolve critical DNS outages, performance degradation, and security issues, Provide expert support for authoritative and recursive DNS infrastructures, Work closely with L1/L2 teams, NOC, and Core Network teams to restore services quickly, Perform deep troubleshooting of BIND, Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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