ASD Executive Level 1
Total Salary Package $113,648 - $177,500 (plus 15.4% super)
Melbourne CBD - VIC

The Role
Linux Systems Administrators are accountable for the design, delivery and maintenance of foundational infrastructure to support bespoke capability development.

OE Branch are looking for individuals who:

• Can provide technical leadership as members of an integrated, agile team
• Encourage and participate in mentoring, guiding and developing existing and new staff
• Provide and enable innovative thinking
• Lead the design, delivery and maintenance of platforms and infrastructure to support complex software development and data processing
• Are always learning new technologies, languages and development methodologies
• Drive concepts and build them into workable and appropriate solutions for mission outcomes
• Demonstrate dynamic analytical thinking, resilience, and adaptability, and
• Look for innovative ways to streamline and improve processes and procedures.

About our Team
ASD is entering an exciting phase of growth, innovation and transformation. Our agency has committed to delivering REDSPICE, which is the most significant single investment in the Australian Signals Directorate’s 75 years.

The Operational Engineering (OE) Branch comprises high-performing, dynamic, multidisciplinary teams committed to enabling ASD’s missions in unique and exciting ways.

Our people are highly skilled and work at the forefront of innovation to support mission requirements through their specialist skills in software, firmware and/or electronic development.

Our Ideal Candidate
The occupants of these positions play a pivotal role in the design, development and delivery of critical capabilities used by ASD’s workforce, ensuring they are fit-for-purpose to meet sensitive and time-critical mission requirements.

Interested candidates should have contemporary qualifications and/or demonstrated skills and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Linux-based operating systems and hardware
• OpenShift Containerisation Platform
• Orchestration services including Ansible, Puppet, Satelitte and/or Terraform
• CI/CD tooling and automation including Artifactory, GitLab and Jenkins
• Messaging and dataflow services such as RabbitMQ, Kafka and/or NiFi
• Experience developing networked infrastructure, and understanding of the role and function of each layer of the OSI model
• Experience developing and testing critical software, and integrating with complex systems.

Application Closing Date: 11:30pm (AEST), Monday 07 August 2023

For further information please review the job information pack, reference ASD/06895/23 on https://www.asd.gov.au/careers.