Python Job: Medical Technologist

• $69,811 - $95,873 ( plus super)
• Fairbairn - ACT

The Role
The Mission Date Division continues to grow and is always looking for talented people to join its mission. The following are examples of the work you could apply your expertise to:

• Software engineering in languages including Go, Rust, Python, Java/Kotlin, C++, web application frameworks, object-oriented analysis and design, rapid prototyping, algorithm development, user interface development, user experience design, open source plugin/module development and more.
• Contribute to the design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, support, security, maintenance or enhancement of ASD's communication and processing systems.
• Provide Automated Configuration Management activities using Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes and/or container management
• Build Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines with a focus on security, maintainability, reliability and performance using a variety of tooling including GitLab CI/CD, OpenShift, Knative, Helm, Prometheus, Jaeger, etc.
• Cloud/container infrastructure design for high-availability enterprise information applications, including continuous deployment from Git managed code in OpenStack, AWS, Azure and bare metal environments. Working knowledge of Containers/Kubernetes deployments.
• Manage and ensure system integrity, performance tuning and monitoring across kubernetes clusters and related workloads such as Elastic/Open Search, Harbor, Keycloak, Prometheus, AWX, Argo and Grafana.
• Develop automation to enforce source driven configuration management activities using Ansible, Argo and Helm.
• Managing and using big data platforms including Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Spark, Accumulo, HBase, DataWave and NiFi.
• Providing support for security operations functions and database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB as well as a range NoSQL based technologies.
• Delving into business data to find ways we can build effectiveness and efficiency into our processes.
• Solve issues for unpredictable problems and establish operating policies, procedures and documentation.
• Work across cross domain solutions to provide long term planning tools for the Australian military.

About our Team

Mission Data (MD) Division, within the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), are looking for data literate people from all sorts of Computer Science related backgrounds, with ranging levels of professional experience. Your skills and willingness to learn will enable us to develop meaning from our rich data holdings, in an environment where you will have access to cutting edge technology to solve big data questions. The work we do is unique, critical and incredibly rewarding.

Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for applicants with the ability to think critically, who are able to communicate with both technical and non-technical people, and who are motivated to learn and develop their skills. Ideal candidates will be innovative, team orientated and have a passion for building or supporting strategically important ASD capability. We are also looking for candidates that recognise the importance of supporting, maintaining and updating the fundamental capabilities that support an innovative workforce.

Regardless of the role, we want people who are able to work within a team environment and use their curiosity, resilience and creativity to solve problems involved in out-thinking and out-imagining some of the most testing adversaries.

We are looking for people who can work under general direction to develop systems that extract knowledge and insights from data to achieve ASD’s diverse mission objectives. The ideal candidate will exercise good judgement, demonstrate initiative and have a focus on continuous improvement.

We are recruiting for a large number of data professional skill-sets. Working in MD Division you will have the opportunity to deliver technical and operational support across a number of roles such as:

• DevSecOps Engineers
• Software Developers/Engineers
• System Integrators
• System Administrators
• Testers
• Database Administrators
• Cloud Engineers
• Agile Professionals
• Site Reliability Engineers
• Data Engineers
• Data Modellers
• Ontology Developers
• User Experience Designers

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