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Form of workAt Home Affairs we know our success depends on IT systems that help us provide services to over 30 Departmental initiatives. We are seeking an experienced systems administrator who's eager to assist us to achieve successful service delivery and further develop technological skills in this fast paced environment.
Our ideal candidate knows how to protect our critical systems and assets, build solutions, implement new software and hardware, provide training and be responsible for our technology road map.
You are innovative, like to take on challenging assignments, lead initiatives and be responsible for the results
- You are passionate about security, risk management and system compliance and are able to easily work with internal and external partners to communicate status, activities and provide advice or data
- You should be open to further skills development and be adaptable to change, joining us during a time of digital transformation.
Duties and responsibilities
The successful candidate will identify improvements and contribute to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for testing while also:
- Maintain essential IT infrastructure, including applications, servers, laptops, desk tops, software and hardware.
- Take responsibility for projects and solutions within the larger business initiative
- Handle business-critical IT tasks and systems that provide commercial advantage
- Enable faster and smarter business processes, and develop analytics for meaningful insights
- Perform server administration tasks, review event logs, monitor and respond to issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain applications and supporting infrastructure when required
- Assist other teams with troubleshooting to identify root-cause, provide technical support when needed
- Perform routine and scheduled audits, back-ups, patching, and upgrades and remediate vulnerabilities.
Additional information
It is expected that a System Administrator Manager would have the following:
- Extensive proven success in a System Administrator management role
- Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems, current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, systems performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualisation, HTTP traffic, content delivery, and caching
- Experience in project management, application design and integration, and cloud computing (specifically Microsoft Azure)
- Expertise in analysing and repairing large-scale distributed systems; creating volumes and assigning them to servers; and remote replication
How to apply
Submit your application and CV through the Home Affairs’ recruitment system) before the closing date on 27/03/2024 at 11:59pm (midnight) AEDT – Late applications will not be accepted.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the position you must be an Australian Citizen.
The successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 (AGSVA) security clearance and an Employment Suitability Clearance (ESC).
