Senior roles in cloud, delivery, engineering, and change. Placed properly.

Key requirements

- Must be an Australian Citizen eligible to obtain NV1 security clearance
- Senior-level Java development chops — you've owned the full SDLC, led technical delivery and written production-grade code at scale
- Based in Melbourne, VIC or Sydney, NSW (hybrid role with onsite attendance required)

The gig

If you live and breathe Java and want your code to power critical national services, this gig has your name on it.

Picture this: You're embedded in a high-impact capacity management automation programme at a major federal agency, working hybrid from Melbourne, VIC or Sydney, NSW. Your day-to-day? Extending a sophisticated Java application that ingests, aggregates and analyzes infrastructure utilisation data across enterprise platforms — think Grafana dashboards, PostgreSQL pipelines, Prometheus feeds and automated CPU right-sizing. This is not a 'set and forget' maintenance gig — you'll be designing, building and shipping meaningful enhancements that directly shape how the agency manages its technology estate.

The contract kicks off around January 2027, runs up to 12 months with potential extensions to 24 months, and sits at an EL1-equivalent seniority band. Up to two roles are on offer, so if you know another gun developer, send them our way too.

We know because we do. Our crew has sat in contractor seats just like this one — navigating government delivery frameworks, SFIA-aligned capability assessments and the particular joy of integrating monitoring toolchains in complex enterprise environments. We know what 'Level 5 SFIA' actually looks like in practice, and we'll help you frame your pitch to land it.





This role demands NV1 clearance eligibility and Australian Citizenship — no exceptions for a federal client of this nature.

If you tick the essentials below, we'll help you nail the one-page pitch and get you in front of the right people rapid.

Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)Monitors the external environment 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 releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.

Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.

Software design: Level 4 (SFIA)Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options an

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