AddressPlease respond to the job if you are an Australian Citizen and residing in Australia and have an active NV1 Clearance.
Contract start 01 May 2023 To 12 months, 2 x 12 months extensions.
Australian Citizen, NV1 Clearance, Canberra, Offsite role.
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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 DevOp Architects to work in support of various Cyber projects within an integrated workforce.
In the role, you will be responsible for the creation, iteration, and maintenance of architecture within the key realm of Application and DevOps embodying the key principles, methods and models that describe the organisation's future state, and that enable its evolution across ASD. This typically involves the interpretation of business goals and drivers; the translation of business strategy and objectives into an operating model; the strategic assessment of current capabilities; the identification of required changes in capabilities; and the description of inter-relationships between people, organisation, service, process, data, information, technology and the external environment.
The architecture development process supports the formation of the constraints, standards and guiding principles necessary to define assure and govern the required evolution; this facilitates change in the organisation's structure, business processes, systems and infrastructure in order to achieve predictable transition to the intended state.
Key knowledge or experience areas include:
Demonstrated experience in a DevOps Architect or similar role developing capability roadmaps, models and plans to drive forward an organisations cloud adoption;
Managing compliance with architectural governance, including Design Authority endorsement, to ensure design consistency and application of architectural standards across the program and planned solutions;
Demonstrated architectural experience delivering capability in an organisation utilising structured technical and delivery methodologies such systems engineering lifecycle or SAFE Agile framework;
Experience defining and creating supporting artefacts for the adoption of Micro Services and DevSecOps Architecture;
Strong administrative and time management skills, with the ability to effectively prioritise work, allocate tasks and to work independently when required.
Working arrangements
Successful candidates will normally work 5 days per week (estimated 40 hour week). All roles for this RFQ are Canberra based, however interstate applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered. The Agency will consider and negotiate remote (work from anywhere) working arrangements on a case by case basis. Where a remote working arrangement is agreed, successful applicants will be required to: Attend the Agencys Canberra Office for the first week of their engagement to undertake compulsory training and to meet team members and various Agency personnel. Travel to Canberra at least once per month for a minimum of 4 working days for key stakeholder, team, and organisational events. Where the candidate is interstate based please provide the candidates interstate location in their resume. All candidates must be Australian Citizens and hold a current NV1 clearance to apply. Please provide the candidates AGSVA Clearance Subject (CS) ID in their resume. FOR INFORMATION: This role requires the successful candidate to complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment (OSA) within 12 months of engagement. An OSA is an ASD policy requirement (ASD-POL-014) for contractors who will be engaged for a period in excess of 12 months. OSAs are conducted to determine a persons suitability to work in ASD. Before submitting an application for this role, the candidate should consider their preparedness for questions that may include the following topics: personal relationships, living circumstances, personal values, financial situation, physical and mental health history including substance use, and any civil and/or military record.
Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission
Essential criteria
1. Demonstrated experience in a DevOps Architect or similar role including: developing capability roadmaps, models and plans to drive forward an organisations cloud adoption identifying opportunities to improve business capability and performance through the adoption of new industry products and emerging Cloud technologies creation of patterns and techniques used to design and build an application managing compliance with architectural governance, including Design Authority endorsement, to ensure design consistency and application of architectural standards across the program and planned solutions providing architecture guidance in build, migration, test and deployment of applications on Cloud Platforms (public, private or hybrid)
2. Demonstrated architectural experience delivering capability in an organisation utilising structured technical and delivery methodologies such systems engineering lifecycle or SAFE Agile framework
3. Experience defining and creating supporting artefacts for the adoption of Micro Services and DevSecOps Architecture
4. Strong administrative and time management skills, with the ability to effectively prioritise work, allocate tasks and to work independently when required.
Desirable criteria
1. Excellent understanding and demonstrated application of current architectural design patterns, standards, technologies and techniques including Architectural frameworks such as DoDAF, ToGAF or similar models.
2. Demonstrated experience in programming languages such as Java and Python.
