1 x Cloud Engineer (Software)

⁠⁠⁠Introduction

Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia Program (DEA) uses satellites, cloud computation and cutting-edge science to enable decisions that support a sustainable Australian environment, a resilient society, and a strong economy. DEA actively leverages a wide variety of contemporary open source, cloud, container orchestration and distributed computing technologies, in support of our scientific and operational objectives.

Our work empowers individuals, industry, and government partners to conduct local and continental-scale science and research. DEA’s work provides unique insights for land and water management, and for conservation of natural environments. We also deliver timely water and fire-related information across Australia.

DEA supports the exploration and development of innovative solutions to our unique challenges. Geoscience Australia strives to be an employer of choice; DEA actively encourages an inclusive and supportive organizational culture, welcoming diverse applicants and incorporating unique perspectives for collective benefit.

We would like to engage a contractor to support DEA’s cloud-based capabilities. The role will involve designing, implementing and managing purpose-built cloud infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, cost-effective and secure.

Statement of Work:

• Work with data scientists and software engineers to create, maintain and scale scientific workflows, data processing pipelines and products
• Work together with a diverse team of people to develop maintainable and well documented code
• Collaborate with other cloud engineers to help build and run cloud-native solutions
• Explore new ways of processing data that save time and deliver improved outcomes
• Provide technical advice to software engineers, data scientists and executive stakeholders via Slack, GitHub, email, and formal documentation
• Join program-wide coordination ceremonies such as daily stand ups, three-week sprints, and program increment planning
• Engage with the open-source community

This is a great opportunity to work in an inclusive team, to interact with peers from around the world working on open data and open-source software, and to make Earth Observation data more accessible to researchers and scientists right across Australia.

Eligibility

• To be eligible for this position you must be an Australian Citizen at the closing date of application.
• The successful applicant must be able to obtain and maintain a Baseline level security clearance or hold a current security clearance of an appropriate level.
• Commencement of employment is subject to the successful applicant undergoing and satisfying a police history check.

RecruitAbility applies to this vacancy. Under the RecruitAbility scheme you will be invited to participate in further assessment activity for the vacancy, if you choose to apply under the scheme; declare you have a disability; and meet the minimum requirements for the position.

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About us

Diversity and inclusion: We value diversity in gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation and cultural background. We know that our work has the greatest impact when it is informed by diverse experiences and perspectives. We are committed to providing an inclusive workplace culture that ensures everyone has equal opportunity to contribute, participate and progress. Applications from people who reflect this diversity are encouraged.

Did you know that a Hewlett Packard internal report found that men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60 per cent of the job requirements? Women and other people from diverse backgrounds tend to only apply when they check every box. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet every single point on the job description or skills, please still apply or get in touch with the contact officer to discuss the role.

Accessible recruitment: We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace for all our staff, especially those who have a disability. If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please contact us.

Health and wellbeing: We value the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees and offer flexible work practices and arrangements for our staff.