Contract - 12 months initial with 2x12 month extension options

Rate - $145 per hour including Super

Working arrangements - Hybrid, 3 days in office required

Job details

Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.

Java Developers will work with the Senior Capacity Manager(s), Capacity Planning Services team and Service Management & Self-Healing Automation Project delivery stakeholders to analyse, design, build, test and support COMPASS CMIS enhancements required for the CPU Right-Sizing and related capacity management automation outcomes.

The role will provide specialist development capability to extend the COMPASS application, data collectors, database interfaces, database design, dashboards and reporting capability so that utilisation data can be collected, aggregated, analysed and presented for operational decision-making.

Key duties and responsibilities

Develop, enhance and maintain COMPASS Java application components, including collectors, APIs, processing logic and interfaces required to support capacity data ingestion and analysis.

Implement and test capacity data collection methods across priority platforms, including integration of data feeds from monitoring tools, configuration repositories and platform data sources.

Support the design and build of data aggregation, transformation and storage patterns within COMPASS and PostgreSQL database to enable reliable reporting and forecasting.

Contribute to Grafana dashboard and report development by preparing data structures, queries,



extracts and supporting application functions required for right-sizing analysis.

Develop and maintain technical documentation, task cards, implementation notes and knowledge transfer material to support APS capability uplift and ongoing COMPASS sustainment.

Assist with defect investigation, root cause analysis, remediation and release support across development, pre-production and production environments.

Support the Service Management & Self-Healing Automation Project outcomes by enabling CPU Right-Sizing, automated capacity reporting, improved data quality, platform coverage expansion and operational self-service reporting.

Technical skills

Experience integrating monitoring, capacity or observability data from tools such as Grafana,Elastic, Prometheus, VMware Aria, Dynatrace or equivalent data repositories.

Ability to develop and support automation scripts, data collectors, scheduled jobs and repeatable deployment or operational processes.

Ability to work with capacity planners, platform teams, database administrators, Linux engineers, project delivery teams and business stakeholders to confirm requirements and validate outcomes.

Demonstrated ability to document technical designs, support arrangements, implementation steps and knowledge transfer material to enable sustainable handover.

Selection Criteria

Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)



- Monitors the external setting to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA) - Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.

Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA) - Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA) - Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews. Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releas

📌 Senior Java Software Engineer (Canberra)
🏢 Arctic Fox
📍 Canberra