Software Developer

Australian Citizens with ability to obtain Baseline Clearance residing in Australia only respond.

• Contract start 30 September 2023 to 12 months, 3 x 12 months extensions.
• Australian Citizen, Ability to obtain Baseline Clearance, Canberra, Offsite role.

Send your responses to jobs@softtestpays.com

Overview

Geoscience Australia (GA) is seeking an experienced software developer with Python and ideally AWS experience to review, update, integrate and provide ongoing support for GAs seismic processing and data acquisition systems, as part of our community safety focused suite of applications and services.

You will work as part of a small DevOps team to maintain and develop robust, highly-available and secure operational and scientific systems. The team uses AWS cloud and on-premises compute to host our systems and is actively migrating on-premises components to AWS.

The team supports the systems that underpin the 24/7 operations of the National Earthquake Alerts Centre (NEAC), the Nuclear Monitoring service, monitoring of the Earths magnetic field, and the operation of the real time sensor networks that provide data to these services.

Through its work, the team contributes to the safety of all Australians and the peoples of our region.

We use Terraform, Docker, BitBucket, Python and Linux Shell Scripting/Bash in our environment.

ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN.

Statement of Work

The services will include but not be limited to

ongoing maintenance of software solutions

ongoing modernisation of systems including the migration of on-premises systems to cloud

automation of deployment and testing, and continuous improvement of existing CI/CD processes

development of additional capabilities for our community safety systems including converting scientific research into operational systems

contribute to a positive culture of continuous improvement, agility, security, and user engagement

Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrated software development experience in a Linux environment including experience with Python, open-source libraries, continuous integration, and version control
• Agile mindset, the ability to communicate clearly, and to collaborate and build software with team members and stakeholders, while ensuring quality and timely outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps culture and techniques, such as automated testing, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring of operational systems.
• Demonstrated problem solving, and logical thinking skills, including debugging and unit test skills.

Desirable Criteria

• Demonstrated experience cloud compute environments e.g. AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Experience with relational databases
• Demonstrated experience with developing or supporting and monitoring of high-availability operational systems.