Tactical Developer (PROJ-4310)

Job Duties and Responsibilities
Essential

• Support tactical development activities to prototype, enhance and validate new solutions or concepts:
• Innovate software solutions to achieve complex and time sensitive issues.
• Identify, design and code solutions to introduce, automate, enhance or sustain data pipelines, schemes, engineering and orchestration using a variety of programming languages.
• Apply best practices to designs and coding.
• Identify, inform and seek to mitigate release-engineering risks during work planning.
• Work alongside colleagues including the System Administrator to perform Operating System installation, configuration, integration, hardening, patch management and documentation.
• Install, maintain or decommission capability hardware and software as required.
• Identify and analyse system issues and work in close coordination with relevant stakeholders to recommend and implement remediation actions.
• Identify any configuration discrepancies, assess security risks, and implement solutions in accordance with security standards.
• Create and maintain system documentation and support procedures.

 Desirable

• Ability to exercise substantial personal responsibility and autonomy.
• Ability to make decisions, which influence the success of projects and team objectives.
• Ability to investigate, define and resolve complex issues.
• Ability to select appropriately from applicable standards, methods, tools and applications.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to facilitate collaboration between stakeholders who share common objectives.
• Ability to maintain an awareness of developing technologies and their application.

Technical skills

• Knowledge in writing secure and optimised Python code. • Knowledge in writing secure and optimised PowerShell code. • Knowledge in client-server architecture. • Knowledge in designing and creating software solutions around best practices and scale. • Knowledge in ASD Essential 8.

Essential criteria:

• Demonstrated ability to innovate  Independently prototype, enhance and validate new solutions or concepts to achieve complex and time sensitive issues.
• Demonstrated experience with requirements definition and management  Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to build, troubleshoot, risk mitigate and sustainment complex capabilities:  Able to works alongside colleagues including System Administrators to perform Operating System installation, configuration, integration, hardening, patch management and documentation.  Able to identify and analyse system/environment issues and work in close coordination with relevant stakeholders to recommend and implement remediation actions.  Able to identify configuration discrepancies, assess security risks, and implement solutions in accordance with security standards.
• Proficiency in developing and automating custom solutions with best practices to designs and coding: Identify, design and code solutions to introduce, automate, enhance or sustain data pipelines, schemes, engineering and orchestration using a variety of programming languages.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintained system/capability/environment/solution documents and support procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.  Ability to facilitate collaboration between stakeholders who share common objectives, making decisions, which influence the success of projects and team objectives.

Desirable criteria:

• Demonstrated ability to exercise substantial personal responsibility and autonomy.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate, define and resolve complex issues.
• Demonstrated ability to utilise experiences and expertise in various declines to reshape/revise current methods, tools and applications.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain an awareness of developing technologies and their application which could influence future directions