Job description
The department has designed and built a shared Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform to support cloud adoption and capability development. It leverages a wide range of AWS services and offerings. The team uses an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach to support DevOps processes of automated testing, automated deployment and automated operations. The main development stack is Terraform/Packer for IaC, Ansible for automation and Python for serverless – however candidates can expect to work with a variety of technologies including containerization.
The ideal candidates would have experience in commercial cloud development (preferably with AWS), a background in software development and knowledge of DevOps tools and processes.
The candidates will be working in a small, multidisciplinary team with close contact with customers and stakeholders.
Estimated start date
ASAP
Location of work
Australian Capital Territory
Length of contract
12 Months
Contract extensions
The department may extend for period or periods up to 31 December 2021
Security clearance
Must have minimum NV1 clearance
Essential criteria
The right attitude is paramount to successful outcomes. You are someone that enjoys working in a tight-knit agile project team that includes technical staff and stakeholders. You communicate well, share knowledge and experiences, have a can-do and flexible approach, and recognise the importance of following Department processes and documentation requirements.
Experience in:
automated testing including identifying and setup of tooling and implementation of testing frameworks (ideally in an AWS cloud environment)
the development of test cases for parallel test execution in a CICD pipeline
automation scripts using programming languages such as C#, Typescript, JavaScript Java and/or Python.
Experience in preparing test strategies, manual test case execution and test data creation in an agile development environment.
Knowledge and experience in accessibility (WCAG) testing, performance and load testing (preferably automated) and testing of responsive cross platform applications.
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