• Assistance with the provisioning and ongoing maintenance of the Elastic cluster on corporate environments.
• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
• Participates in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues’ work.
• Provide corporate strategic planning and architectural advice.
• Assist with performance tuning of Elastic indices/indexes.
• Assist with data engineering type efforts of mapping data types into the Elastic indices/indexes.
• Help with disaster recovery and contingency planning.
• Conducts work in environments up to and including TS classification
• Provides mentoring of and knowledge transfer to colleagues, especially permanent staff members.
• Facilitate and plan for updates and regular maintenance.
• Ideally has MongoDB skills and can undertake the above broad activities in relation to Mongo as well.

The Candidate:
Essential criteria

• Experience with a similar role, preferably in a government department
• Eligible for security clearance, TS PV preferred

What the role offers:

• Competitive rates for the right candidate
• A fun, collaborative and productive team

If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at: https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/

You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call and be prepared to sign a nondisclosure. Feel free to call thereafter on the following 0482 074 845

The agency is seeking 2 skilled Senior Java Developers to assist with Java development tasks for the maintenance and evolution of their system. The system currently has a .NET front-end, Java backend (Unix/Linux/AWS), Oracle PL/SQL, ARCGIS. This role is to maintain and enhance the backend including JEE, Tomcat and Spring applications.

The Role
The successful candidate must have the following minimum skills:

• Develop enterprise-grade software using Java and RDB technologies
• Design, create and manage solutions on AWS Cloud
• Design data models, translate to physical data models and implement using a database
• Implement CRUD operations on the database using Java Object-Relational Mapping frameworks
• Produce and maintain detailed design artifacts & technical specifications
• Create and work with RESTful OpenAPI specifications, SOAP WSDLs, XML Schemas
• Develop and maintain DevOps workflows using Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Maven

The Candidate
Mandatory criteria:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in analysis, design, planning, support, documentation, and presentation contexts.
• Ability to work autonomously, especially to ask questions, engage with business and gather requirements
• At least 8 years Java experience, enterprise design patterns, JPA, Hibernate ORM, JEE an advantage, data structures, concurrency.
• Technical skills:
  • Broad experience with internal and external data integrations, e.g., SOAP and REST APIs, OpenAPI/XSD Schemas, XML/JSON, JMS.
  • AWS development (EC2, Lambdas, API Gateway, Beanstalk, S3, SQS, CloudFormation).
  • Unix/Linux, Bash.
  • Maven, Artifact Repositories, Continuous Integration, Unit and System Integration testing.
• Major database experience, including data modelling, stored procedures. Oracle preferred.
• Willingness to be 24×7 on-call. Historically calls escalated to the dev team between 10pm and 6am are rare, one per year.

Desirable criteria:

• Reactive programming.
• Spring/SpringBoot.
• Work as a member of an integrated Agile team comprising technical and non-technical personnel
• Strong commitment to software engineering processes and a proven ability to develop robust and maintainable software given complex requirements.

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.

• Territory degree and/or equivalent experience of 5 years or more in ICT Commercial/ federal government procurement.
• Strong understanding of Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs)
• Experience in Commonwealth of Australia procurement and tendering processes of varying complexity, including but not limited to understanding of tender preparation, evaluation, contract formation, negotiation and selection.
• Understanding and demonstrated experience in procurement of goods and services using panel arrangements, the Indigenous Procurement Policy, limited tender and open tender approaches to market.
• Demonstrated experience in the preparation of procurement documentation including, source justification, procurement risk assessment, statements of work, procurement and contracting documentation, and record keeping.
• Demonstrated experience liaising with a diverse range of stakeholders including ICT professionals and vendors and the ability to work independently and prioritise work accordingly.
• Maintain the highest degree of probity and discretion in respect to all procurement undertaken.
• Ability in developing a procurement framework for the organisation including templates and supporting material.
• Provide analytical support to projects to ensure they are planning procurement activities appropriately.

Candidates are to provide an overview which is no more than two (2) A4 pages which demonstrates their experience and knowledge as an ICT Procurement and Contract manager. This overview page should demonstrate what the candidate would bring to the agency as an ICT Procurement and Contract Manager.

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.