1-2 Senior Java full-stack DevOps Engineer

About the Company

Peoplebank are a leading information technology talent consultancy that focuses on providing specialised IT consultants to Tier-1 clients in diverse industries like Banking/Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, and Government. Our consultants are engaged in a variety of cutting-edge projects throughout Australia.

About the Role

Our Federal Government Client is seeking an Senior Java full-stack DevOps Engineer.

This is a long-term contract role 12 months with 12 months extension x2, located at our client's ACT in a hybrid set-up.

Job details

DevOps Engineers work closely with development teams to provide (and support) the environment needed to deliver the organisation's services quickly and efficiently, using automation and self-service.

Key accountabilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support Java applications on Linux platforms in accordance with corporate strategy, current policy, and approved project plans.
• Participate in and contribute to agile ceremonies, events, and artefacts to help AFSA to continue to build a strong agile culture and developer community of practice.
• Contribute to creating and maintaining software solutions from requirements elicitation to postproduction support. Build effective working relationships with product owners, business stakeholders, infrastructure, and service delivery teams to enable delivery of high-quality business effective solutions.
• Sustainable development through domain driven design, test driven development, pairing, maintainable code, code reviews, adhering to team conventions and strategies. Improving our automated testing suite, keeping security, accessibility, and open standards in mind, and refining our technical implementation.
• Work collegiately and collaboratively in a small multi-disciplinary team, creating strong and supportive relationships with the other team members.
• Undertake appropriate mechanism to transition knowledge to APS manager, colleagues as directed throughout the term of the contract. Knowledge transfer mechanisms may include Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), work instructions, shared knowledge bases, manuals, technical specifications, or other knowledge transfer mechanisms as appropriate for the work involved.

Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a response to each criterion. Each response is limited to 3000 characters.

Essential criteria

1. Deliver robust solutions shaped by strategic thinking
   • Building organisational capability and responsiveness.
   • Inspiring a sense of purpose and direction and focussing strategically.
   • Showing judgement, intelligence, and common sense.
   • Steering and implementing change and dealing with uncertainty.
   • Ensuring closure and delivering on intended results.

2. Operates efficiently to achieve business outcomes
   • Operates efficiently to achieve business outcomes.
   • Takes a flexible approach to planning to meet changing circumstances and considers the impact on others.
   • Uses resources in a way that minimises wastage and optimises outcomes.
   • Considers the broader, long-term implications of actions including the impact on governance, finance, and technology as well as social and environmental considerations.

3. Sustains a user-focused approach to deliver better services
   • Gains an authentic understanding of a person's experience and needs through collaboration and curiosity.
   • Uses and shares this understanding to inform collaborative service offering.
   • Embraces ambiguity and is curious, works with users to identify a solution which provides value.
   • Demonstrates an ability to convey a message succinctly and with empathy, regardless of medium (written, verbal, digital).
   • Understands the target audience, and tailors' message in a way that appeals to them.

4. Engages people to build productive relationships
   • Acts with honesty, integrity, and respect in dealing with others.
   • Is willing and able to understand others' perspectives.
   • Sets and manages expectations to achieve positive outcomes.
   • Keep one's word and follow through on promises or commitments made.

5. Applies digital dexterity
   • Demonstrates commitment to explore, learn and adopt new technologies and ways of working, to achieve better business outcomes.
   • Displays a growth mindset.

6. Qualifications, accreditations, and experience Mandatory
   • Demonstrated experience in developing, implementing, and supporting high performance scalable Spring Boot or J2EE applications on Linux platforms using agile and lean practices.
   • Proficiency in the following:
   • Java
   • Application frameworks like Spring Boot 3/Spring 6
   • Service Oriented Architecture / Web Services - SOAP / REST
   • Web Technologies and frameworks like Bootstrap, Thymeleaf, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery
   • Build tools like Maven
   • An IDE like IntelliJ
   • Automated testing
   • Unit testing tools like JUnit or Test NG, and unit testing strategies
   • Source control tools such as GitHub

Desirable criteria

1. Desirable: Well versed in:
   •
   • ECMAScript 6
   • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
   • Continuous integration tools like Jenkins
   • Source code quality analysis tools such as SonarQube
   • SQL database tools like SQL Developer, Oracle database, Toad
   • Apache Kafka
   • Story, bug tracking and documentation tools such as JIRA and Confluence

Due to security clearance requirements for this role, candidates must be Australian citizens and  holding Baseline security clearance.

Apply now for immediate consideration or contact Archna Singh  on  quoting Job Reference: #

Please note: Only candidates that meet the above criteria will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in the position.