Mobile Applications Support and Maintenance

Please respond to the job if you are an Australian Citizen and residing in Australia.

• Contract start 06 March 2023 To 12 months.
• Australian Citizen, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Victoria, Offsite(Monthly status reporting, fortnightly meetings, ad-hoc urgent meetings as required over a 12 month period) role.

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Overview
Parks Australia has a suite of six mobile apps which have been built by an external development agency. The mobile apps showcase Parks Australias national parks and botanic gardens and provide information to visitors including tours, activities, cultural heritage, environment and maps. The apps are publicly available through the iOS and Android app stores.
The Director of National Parks is seeking an external provider to deliver ongoing technical maintenance, security and monitoring of the mobile apps for Parks Australia for a 12 month period. Timely (within 1 business day for critical issues and within 1 week for non-urgent issues) technical support is required to resolve any issues encountered by the client.
A key requirement is ensuring the apps function consistently and correctly on the latest version of iOS and Android operating systems. This is a requirement of having the apps published on their respective app stores.
Informing the client of any changes to technology and policies which may affect the ability to publish updates to the apps (such as iOS upgrades or cybersecurity incidents), investigating the impacts of any changes on the clients business, and actioning any changes required to ensure the apps are always accessible to users.
Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission
Essential Criteria
1.Demonstrated skills in building, publishing, and maintaining Android and iOS Mobile Applications
2.Demonstrated experience working to Australian government application development standards
3. Dedicated in-house skills for: React Native framework JavaScript (ES6 compliant) Tailwind CSS Expo framework AWS Lamba functions
4. Demonstrated experience in building and/or managing Mobile Applications using Expo
5.Demonstrated experience in 3rd Party online services that the mobile apps leverage: GitHub and GitHub Actions Google Firebase MapTiler Google Maps API Monitoring of restricted API endpoints used by apps