Proposed Rate & term

$155 per hour including Super | 36 month contract

Location & work arrangements

Canberra | Hybrid, 3 days in office

Security Clearance

Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1 Clearance (AFP Specific)

Our role

Our role is to enforce Commonwealth and Australian Capital Territory criminal law and protect the Commonwealth's interests from criminal activity in Australia and overseas. We work closely with domestic and international partners to combat complex transnational serious and organised crime, which poses a serious threat to Australia's national security.

Under the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 (Cth) (AFP Act) the AFP investigates state offences with a federal aspect, in partnership with domestic partners. The AFP uses its policing insights to engage effectively with the government, partners and the community to promote awareness and resilience.

Our operating environment

The AFP continuously monitors and assesses our operating environment to ensure we can deliver on our purpose. The various geopolitical, social, economic and technological changes in our environment can affect the AFP directly and indirectly, and also shape the criminal environment as explored in the AFP Federal Crime Threat Picture.

Despite these changes, the AFP strives to evolve with our operating workplace to ensure we continue to keep Australians and Australia safe.

Key duties and responsibilities

The Services, delivered in collaboration with and under supervision by nominated AFP personnel, include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Work together with AFP business users and system engineers to improve and optimise the implementation,



use and management of analytic based business solutions.
- Collaborate with AFP staff to diagnose and resolve operational and technical problems.
- Actively engage with staff and business-led IT areas to leverage solution expertise and contribute positively to expanding the AFP's knowledge base.
- Actively participate in platform configuration planning and management.
- Actively alert AFP management to any design, build, testing and quality risks, assumptions and dependencies that may be identified.
- Produce overall system design / implementation documentation and relevant procedures / policies.
- Perform technical assessment, design, configuration and deployment of new capabilities in the data platform space
- Enforce and adhere to all levels of compliance in the ICT environment.
- Provide knowledge/skills transfer to other teams

As part of the services, the seller must ensure the specified personnel:

- Maintains currency in information technology processes and technical knowledge through ongoing professional development.
- Establishes and maintains effective business relationships and professional networks.
- Contributes to and implements improved ICT practices and procedures.
- Provides mentoring, coaching and training.




- Works effectively in a small team environment, and wider Command environment.
- Remains accountable for accurate completion of work within timeframes and quality requirements, shares own expertise with others and guides and mentors less experienced buyer employees; and
- Records and maintains files/information in accordance with buyer requirements.

Technical skills

Technical skills candidates would need to have (including but not limited to) are listed below:

- Enterprise service and virtualisation engineering
- Cloud and Hybrid infrastructure engineering
- Infrastructure automation and IaC
- Storage, backup and disaster recovery engineering
- Platform security and infrastructure hardening

About the team

Technology being a critical enabler of the AFP's operational and corporate services.

- Modernising the AFP's technology foundations and applications, and increasing the cyber‐security position of the organisation.
- Evolving our internal processes to navigate the development and deployment of emerging technologies.
- Continuing to mature our use of technology across the 6 strategic shifts outlined in the AFP Technology Strategy 2025.
- Enhancing our collaboration with academic institutions, police forces and the technology sector to understand technological challenges and opportunities to strengthen law enforcement capabilities.

AFP Band 7 Work Level Standards to apply.

The AFP reserves the right to engage further suppliers for the same services if required utilising this RFQ. Any offer of engagement will be made within 6‐months of the RFQ release date.

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