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L3 Support Engineer DNS

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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Senior level
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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Senior level
Provides L3 escalation support for production DNS infrastructure. Diagnoses critical outages, performance degradation, security issues, and protocol-level problems across authoritative and recursive DNS systems. Performs deep BIND troubleshooting, analyzes DNS resolution behavior, leads root cause analysis for major incidents, and collaborates with L1/L2 support, NOC, and network teams to restore services quickly.
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Must Have Skills:
 5+ years of experience in DNS operations/support, with at least 2–3 years at L3 level

 Strong hands‑on experience with BIND (open‑source DNS)

Deep understanding of:

·       DNS protocol internals

·       Authoritative vs Recursive DNS

·       TTL, caching behavior, and query resolution flow

Strong Linux/Unix system administration experience

Strong networking fundamentals:

·       TCP/IP, UDP

·       Latency and routing behavior

 

Nice to Have Skills:
  Experience with Anycast DNS deployments

  Exposure to other DNS software: Unbound, PowerDNS, Knot DNS

  Automation and scripting (Shell, Python, Ansible)

  Monitoring tools:

  • Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix

  ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change Management experience)

Minimum Years of Experience: 5+

Certifications Needed: No

Top 3 responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute
  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

Deep troubleshooting of BIND

Perform DNS protocol‑level analysis

Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents

 

 



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