Senior Data Engineer

20 hours ago

Canberra, ACT, Australia Canberra Consulting Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

About Us

Canberra Consulting focuses on delivering highly skilled and qualified professionals to our clients. We have the experience and capability to understand your specific requirements and match them to the right environment, ensuring professional satisfaction and development. We focus on fit — for both our clients and our candidates — and give you every opportunity to thrive.

The Opportunity

Join a specialist team supporting Defence on a multi-year program. You'll be the technical lead for data observability and analytics across lab and field activities, enabling system-of-systems test & evaluation, risk reduction and experimentation. Some interstate and occasional international travel may be required for trials and stakeholder engagements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build and implement data observability & analytics tooling for LCS Validation Labs and initiatives.
  • Establish and maintain observability practices for T&E and experimentation; perform root-cause analysis and optimisation.
  • Provide SME advice, collaborate with validation and engineering teams, and influence future architectures.
  • Integrate observability into DevSecOps/automation (e.g., CI/CD, build/test pipelines).
  • Support exercises, trials and field activities; deliver reports and post-activity assessments.
  • Mentor and train ADF personnel; contribute to innovation and integration of deployable systems.

Skills & Experience

Required

  • Extensive Data Observation/Analytics experience.
  • Advanced Linux (RHEL) administration.
  • DevSecOps (CI/CD, GitLab) and automation background.
  • Coding/scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell (plus Java/C/C++ advantageous).
  • API development/integration proficiency.
  • Solid networking, storage, virtualisation (KVM, VMware).
  • Defence/government experience with NV1/NV2; familiarity with secure environments and emerging tech.

Desirable

  • Industry certs in Data Engineering (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability (Datadog/New Relic/Prometheus/Grafana).
  • Tertiary quals in data/IT/engineering; 10+ years in data engineering/analytics; systems engineering exposure.
  • Defence test & evaluation experience; familiarity with Agile delivery.

Security Clearance

You must be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum NV1 clearance. Candidates may be required to undergo an upgrade to NV2.

Note: Candidates not meeting the Security requirements above will not be considered.

Apply Now

Does this sound like a perfect role for you? Interested in hearing more? Contact our Recruitment Director, Alister, at to arrange a confidential discussion.

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