Senior System Administrator (Linux) Level 5

Our Large Federal Government client has a requirement for a Senior System Administrator - Linux who will contribute both independently and collaboratively, and may coordinate or perform changes, outages, upgrades, patches, software development, business analysis and service delivery (support) functions including answering customer calls and performing Level 2 and 3 support after Service Desk triage of initial requests.
Scope of responsibility includes the virtual infrastructure, management of diverse data sets and automated data processing, application and database security, configuring backups and performance tuning. Tasks may include rebuilding or rewriting parts of existing systems, scripted transformations of data sets and maintenance and improvement of automated processing scripts to ensure optimum system integrity.
This role is expected to initiate improvements to services and take a leading role alongside existing staff in defining the technical strategic direction for services. The role may also undertake a deep level of root cause analysis for Problem Management, identifying and resolving complex issues or oversighting and taking a leading role in complex upgrades.
Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience with installation and configuration of open source and/or commercial software packages (eg based on PHP, Python, Java) into a virtual or containerised Linux environment.
• Experience designing and configuring software systems and associated hosting environments to meet ICT security policy and procedures.
• Experience with Linux command line scripting for data-processing or data-manipulation automation or system build or monitoring such as in PERL, BASH, Ansible, etc

Major Responsibilities:

• Support System software: patch operating systems and applications; diagnose and resolve system and environment problems, implement break-fixes for diverse customers from individual users to system stakeholders. Evaluate and implement software updates and environment updates such as cloud-based infrastructure. Identify and initiate improvements to architecture and configurations. Update system features or behaviour to meet customer needs as provided through requirements capture by other team members.
• System Integration: conduct secure and robust transformations of existing data sets to meet environmental changes and business requirements; test software under environmental changes such as browser, proxy, firewall, network, load management and operating system changes; review, update and test software changes and patches to ensure system integrity and security, coordinate outages, draw on external resources as needed and provide specialist advice to colleagues.
• Problem management: identify, investigate, analyse and resolve operational problems. Research and undertake proactive maintenance addressing capability deficiencies or ongoing system performance issues under changing environmental factors. Collaborate with technical staff supporting related services in other teams to resolve issues with web services or where web service operation affects other services. Provide system status updates to stakeholders by email, updates to tasking systems and in person.

Location: The role is based in Canberra ACT.
Contract terms: Contract term of 12 months, not exceeding 30 June 2025 will be considered.
SFIA level required: The Specified Person will be expected to demonstrate attributes of SFIA Level of Responsibility 5.
Security Requirements: Current Top-Secret Positive Vetting (TSPV) security clearance is strongly preferred, however candidates who have held a TSPV in the previous 12-month period (which has since been downgraded) may be considered.
How to Apply: Please upload your resume to apply. Please note you will need to complete selection criteria to complete this application process. We will be in touch with instructions for suitably skilled candidates.
Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.
Applications open until 8am 21 February 2023.
Reach Damien on 0480 002 503 or damienm@whizdom.com.au for any further information.