1 Senior System Analyst

⁠⁠⁠Overview

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is seeking to engage a Senior System Analyst.

The Role

Systems Analysts translate business requirements into technical requirements that align with relevant architectures.

Role Requirements

Candidates are expected to possess the following technical skills, including but not limited to:

Technical Skills

• Experience with the VMware SDDC stack for a minimum of 3 years, with the ability to demonstrate experience with vSphere; VMware vSAN and software-defined storage solutions; a strong understanding of virtualisation and cloud concepts, processes and standards, including virtual data centres, vMotion, and dynamic resource scheduling (DRS); experience with enterprise data storage technologies including NAS (IP-based), SAN (Fibre Channel-based), and converged storage solutions (e.g., vSAN); and experience with the VMware Aria (formerly vRealize) suite or equivalent, including Aria Automation (vRealize Automation), Aria Operations (vRealize Operations Manager), Aria Operations for Logs (Log Insight), Aria Orchestrator, and Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or equivalent DR orchestration tools
• Proven experience in implementing complex business solutions hosted on infrastructure and/or cloud platforms, including the ability to develop and complete technical and security requirements, test planning and validation considerations, operational readiness considerations, and system constraints and performance requirements
• Experience with systems backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery, including modern approaches such as replication, failover, and cyber resilience practices
• Experience with identity and access management, including central authentication technologies such as LDAP, Active Directory, and/or Entra ID (Azure AD), with an understanding of security best practices
• Knowledge of network protocols and core infrastructure services, including DNS, SMTP, NTP, SNMP, and general network communication principles
• Demonstrated understanding of ITIL service management practices, particularly incident, problem, and change management within an enterprise environment
• Experience with systems monitoring and management concepts, processes, and tools, including SNMP, syslog, and modern observability or logging platforms
• Experience in systems capacity, performance monitoring, and optimisation, including proactive tuning and resource management to ensure system efficiency and reliability
• Desirable: exposure to cloud platforms and automation, including Microsoft Azure and/or AWS, scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python), and infrastructure-as-code or automation tooling
• Desirable: experience in administering BAE Cross Domain Solution
• Desirable: experience supporting highly secure or classified government environments