Senior Openshift Software Engineer

  • Deakin
  • Contract
  • Mon Apr 20 00:19:28 2026
  • BBBH3953

Senior Openshift Software Engineer

  • RFQ ID
    LH-06205
  • RFQ published date
    Wednesday, 15 April 2026
  • Deadline for asking questions
    Wednesday, 22 April 2026
  • 11:59pm, Canberra time
  • RFQ closing date
    Wednesday, 29 April 2026
  • 11:59pm, Canberra time
  • Buyer
    Services Australia
  • Estimated start date
    Wednesday, 01 July 2026
  • Initial contract duration
    Up to 12 months
  • Extension term
    Other
  • Extension term details
    Up to a maximum of 24 months
  • Experience level
    Senior - EL1 equivalent
  • Location of work
    QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, SA
  • Working arrangements
    Hybrid
  • Location is capital city of selected states. Other locations will not be accepted. The Labour Hire Worker is to work from the RFQ location on a full-time basis for the first 6 weeks. A hybrid WFH arrangement, usually a minimum of 3 days/week onsite, will be considered from the location identified in this RFQ, to ensure that where Labour Hire Workers need to attend the office for ad hoc/emergency reasons etc, they can do so within a reasonable travel time and distance close to their home.
  • Maximum hours
    40 hours per week
  • Security clearance
    Must be able to obtain Baseline

Job details


Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.
Development professionals design, create, test and document software systems and applications in accordance with agreed development and security standards and processes. Development Experts lead software development projects and provide technical leadership to their teams. They manage software planning, development, and construction activities, and evaluate and resolve complex issues within the development and production environments. Development experts are responsible for the quality and functionality of software, ensuring adherence to relevant standards, guidelines, and methods for system development.
Development Experts:

  • lead the delivery of flexible, quality modern customer service
  • work under the broad direction of senior staff to deliver results
  • make ethical, evidence-based decisions using sound judgement
  • develop and manage stakeholder relationships.
    DevOps Openshift developers support application team development through the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, monitoring system performance and availability and collaborate with development and infrastructure operations teams to improve deployment strategies, automate manual processed and embed DevOps best practices across the software delivery lifecycle.

    Key duties and responsibilities


    Duties may include some or all of the following:
    • lead and create software and technical designs for the realisation of highly complex development solutions
    • develop strategy to ensure high quality code and long-term maintenance of a product's code base
    • provide specialist technical advice on software development and maintenance
    • lead the release and ensure go-live production support and maintenance for the team’s developments
    • lead analysis, design, software development, prototyping, unit testing and maintenance activities
    • review and undertake high-level analysis of technical requirements to support project evaluation with proposed solutions
    • ensure compliance with endorsed software development methodologies
    • investigate and resolve highly complex ICT issues
    • lead a positive risk management culture
    • engage and manage stakeholder relationships and partner with other agencies and service providers to build service delivery capability
    • contribute to business and strategic workforce planning, and drive the development of local strategies to improve key performance measures
    • review and prepare reports, briefs and corporate documentation and communicate technical findings and recommendations
    • manage business objectives and implement strategic priorities to achieve outcomes
    • lead the development and delivery of projects within the assigned area of responsibility
    • exercise appropriate delegation in accordance with legislations and guidelines.

    Technical skills

    • Proficient in cloud platforms
    • 4+ yrs experience in CI/CD tooling & version control systems
    • Technical leadership in mentoring, setting engineering standards & influencing platform strategy
    • Capability to architect, optimise & standardise CI/CD frameworks
    • Implement & maintain CD/CD pipelines
    • ability to design & maintain automated deployment pipelines
    • Containerisation & orchestration tech.
    • Multi-cluster in infrastructure, platform engineering practices & advanced troubleshooting

    About the organisation


    Services Australia is at the frontline of government service delivery, supporting millions of Australians, and is front and centre of a vision to be a world leader in government service delivery. It’s using cutting-edge technology to build world class platforms and capabilities to help Australians get on with their lives.

    Criteria


    The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

    Essential criteria


    • 1.Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)
      Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

    • 2.Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA)
      Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.

    • 3.Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA)
      Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

    • 4.Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA)
      Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews. Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.

    • 5.Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)
      Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.

    • 6.Software design: Level 4 (SFIA)
      Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.

    • 7.Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA)
      Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.

    • 8.Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA)
      Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.

    • 9.Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA)
      Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.

    • 10.Testing: Level 4 (SFIA)
      Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.

    Desirable criteria


    • 1.Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA)
      Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.
      Important: Due to Defence security requirements, Australian Citizenship is mandatory. Unfortunately, candidates on any type of visa are not eligible for this role.

      At Cleared, we provide tailored recruitment solutions to individuals seeking their next opportunity and to organisations searching for talent within Defence Industry, Intelligence, and National Security.
      To arrange a confidential conversation or apply, please contact Emily on 0401 791 117, or to view all our current openings, visit clearedrecruitment.com.au.