Paraway Pastoral Company owns and operates large-scale sheep and cattle enterprises across Australia. Beginning with its purchase of the historic Riverina sheep stud Pooginook in 2007, Paraway has grown to become one of the largest pastoral landowner/operators in Australia, with a total combined land holding of over 4.4 million hectares.Reporting to the Head of Information, Systems & Business Planning, the Regional Systems & Network Administrator is a broad IT system administrator and support role, and the first point of contact for IT issues and requests across the Company – both the corporate Head Office and Stations (ie operational assets). The role provides IT service management, technical support and advice, and system administration services to the business, and acts as a key intermediary to the Company’s trusted IT partners/vendors for issue resolution and service delivery.Your role will be diverse across infrastructure (Microsoft), networks, workplace technology and service/vendor management. You’ll work closely with the regional sites (Stations) to monitor and troubleshoot any technology issues they have  and provide patient, logical and empathetic support. You’ll have an ownership mentality and will take great pride in walking non-technical users through detailed troubleshooting to help them solve their problems.You’ll love adventure! There will be lots in this role. You’ll have the opportunity to really make the role your own and travel periodically to various regional sites across Australia to refresh technology, facilitate user IT training, provide onsite support or conduct technology audits and reviews.We’d love to hear from you if you have the following key experience/capabilities:5+ years’ experience working in a similar roleStrong experience with remote support, ideally with areas that have poor connectivity. You’ll have strong experience talking remote stakeholders through problems step by stepExperience across the Microsoft infrastructure technical stack – Azure, Exchange, O365, Windows desktop and hardware, Teams/SharepointStrong networking skills - you’ll ideally have managed a disparate network with regional locations centrally managed, and be familiar with Ubiquiti Unifi solutions.Strong stakeholder engagement skills and relationship building skillsA strong desire to manage and maintain an IT operating environment to an enterprise standard, with a high level of documented standards and processesA growth mindset with a collaborative style and a strong willingness to learn and grow in your career; andAbove all else, you will have a humble, kind, empathetic, patient, friendly and trustworthy personality, with an excellent attitude and approach to supporting end users.  An ability to work under pressure, exhibit strong critical thinking skills along with excellent organisational skills will be highly regarded. A positive, can-do attitude with a customer service focus will see you thrive and progress within the organisation.Paraway Pastoral Company values work/life balance and fosters a collegiate and respectful work culture. You will be supported by a strong leadership team and a supportive peer group and be given autonomy to grow and develop your skills in this role.A generous salary package will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

Regional Systems & Network Administrator- Orange, NSW

Paraway Pastoral Company owns and operates large-scale sheep and cattle enterprises across Australia. Beginning with its purchase of the historic Riverina sheep stud Pooginook in 2007, Paraway has grown to become one of the largest pastoral landowner/operators in Australia, with a total combined land holding of over 4.4 million hectares.

Reporting to the Head of Information, Systems & Business Planning, the Regional Systems & Network Administrator is a broad IT system administrator and support role, and the first point of contact for IT issues and requests across the Company – both the corporate Head Office and Stations (ie operational assets). The role provides IT service management, technical support and advice, and system administration services to the business, and acts as a key intermediary to the Company’s trusted IT partners/vendors for issue resolution and service delivery.

Your role will be diverse across infrastructure (Microsoft), networks, workplace technology and service/vendor management. You’ll work closely with the regional sites (Stations) to monitor and troubleshoot any technology issues they have  and provide patient, logical and empathetic support. You’ll have an ownership mentality and will take great pride in walking non-technical users through detailed troubleshooting to help them solve their problems.

You’ll love adventure! There will be lots in this role. You’ll have the opportunity to really make the role your own and travel periodically to various regional sites across Australia to refresh technology, facilitate user IT training, provide onsite support or conduct technology audits and reviews.

We’d love to hear from you if you have the following key experience/capabilities:

  • 5+ years’ experience working in a similar role
  • Strong experience with remote support, ideally with areas that have poor connectivity. You’ll have strong experience talking remote stakeholders through problems step by step
  • Experience across the Microsoft infrastructure technical stack – Azure, Exchange, O365, Windows desktop and hardware, Teams/Sharepoint
  • Strong networking skills - you’ll ideally have managed a disparate network with regional locations centrally managed, and be familiar with Ubiquiti Unifi solutions.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills and relationship building skills
  • A strong desire to manage and maintain an IT operating environment to an enterprise standard, with a high level of documented standards and processes
  • A growth mindset with a collaborative style and a strong willingness to learn and grow in your career; and
  • Above all else, you will have a humble, kind, empathetic, patient, friendly and trustworthy personality, with an excellent attitude and approach to supporting end users.  

An ability to work under pressure, exhibit strong critical thinking skills along with excellent organisational skills will be highly regarded. A positive, can-do attitude with a customer service focus will see you thrive and progress within the organisation.

Paraway Pastoral Company values work/life balance and fosters a collegiate and respectful work culture. You will be supported by a strong leadership team and a supportive peer group and be given autonomy to grow and develop your skills in this role.

A generous salary package will be negotiated with the successful applicant.