System Engineer

Please respond to the job if you are an Australian Citizen and residing in Australia and have an NV1 Clearance. Contract start 01 May 2023 To 12 months, 2 x 12 months extensions. Australian Citizen, NV1 Clearance, Canberra, Offsite role. Send your responses to jobs@softtestpays.com Overview The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) leads the Australian Governments efforts to improve cyber security. We are part of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and our role is to help make Australia the most secure place to connect online. ASD has an ongoing requirement for System Engineers to work in support of the National Cyber Defence Program on complex projects within an integrated workforce. System Engineers will be responsible for leading a delivery team in all aspects of ICT system engineering. They will be involved in the system definition of multiple capability elements across a complex system solution that includes Intelligence search and discovery, analytic tools, task management, publishing tools and a bespoke access management system. The System Engineer will lead system specification definition across a number of capability elements and assist in the subsequent design, delivery, documentation, validation and release of the solutions delivered. Good knowledge of System Engineering principles and processes and knowledge of information systems security principles, practices and technologies are essential. Experience working with cloud technologies is highly desirable. Indicative duties include, but are not limited to: Ensure all work meets quality standards and quality control measures Lead system specification decomposition and ensure requirements are successfully tested during the verification and validation process Analyse complex systems engineering issues across a range of capability elements and apply expertise to identify and recommend courses of action Contribute to and review externally developed designs, plans and other artefacts to ensure integration with requirements and verification processes Coordinate team and service provider resources to deliver and support IT services and products Codification of developed knowledge to enable knowledge transfer to ASD contractors and employees. Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission Essential Criteria 1. Demonstrated experience analysing business needs to understand and synthesise requirements to produce system specifications and designs, including evaluating the trade-offs between various designs options to meet the composite of functional and non-functional requirements. 2. Demonstrated experience in prototyping ICT concepts and solutions and assessing results against requirements. 3. Demonstrated experience in the development of both software and infrastructure solutions in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. 4. Demonstrated ICT technical leadership and communication skills including leading ICT technical planning activities including development of product breakdown structures, planning ICT product delivery and ICT engineering activities guiding the technical delivery of a range of ICT solutions excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact collegiately with customers, colleagues and technical teams. Desirable Criteria 1. Demonstrated experience leading engineering practices and processes in an Organisation using Dev Ops or SAFE agile 2. Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: Transition in and/or transition out of outsourced arrangements Implementation of service delivery and service management arrangements supporting production ICT systems Implementation of ongoing system sustainment arrangements