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Senior OpenShift Software Engineer (Developer) Australian citizenship required. No PR or Work Visa holders. Must be able to obtain Baseline security clearance. What to Submit A tailored resume in docx format A one page (5000 character) summary response to the selection criteria below. RFQ Details RFQ ID: LH-06205 Agency: Services Australia Closing Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2026 11:59pm (Canberra time) Estimated Start Date: Wednesday, 01 July 2026 Initial Contract Duration: Up to 12 months Extension Term: Other Number of Extensions: Not specified Experience Level: Senior EL1 equivalent Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline Location of Work: QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, SA Working Arrangements: Hybrid. The Labour Hire Worker is to work from the RFQ location on a full-time basis for the first 6 weeks. A hybrid WFH arrangement, usually a minimum of 3 days/week onsite, will be considered thereafter. Maximum Hours: 40 hours per week Job Details Software Engineers oversee development projects, provide technical leadership, and ensure the quality and functionality of software systems. Development Experts lead software planning, development, and construction activities, resolving complex issues and ensuring adherence to standards and methodologies. DevOps OpenShift developers support application teams through CI/CD pipeline implementation, system monitoring, and collaboration across development and infrastructure teams to improve deployment strategies and automate processes. Key Duties and Responsibilities Lead and create software and technical designs for highly complex development solutions Develop strategy to ensure high quality code and long-term maintainability Provide specialist technical advice on software development and maintenance Lead release activities and provide go-live production support Lead analysis, design, development, prototyping, testing and maintenance Perform high-level analysis of technical requirements and propose solutions Ensure compliance with software development methodologies Investigate and resolve complex ICT issues Lead risk management practices Engage and manage stakeholder relationships Contribute to strategic planning and workforce capability development Prepare reports, briefs and technical documentation Manage business objectives and deliver strategic outcomes Lead delivery of projects within assigned responsibility Exercise delegation in accordance with guidelines Technical Skills Proficient in cloud platforms Experience in CI/CD tooling and version control systems Technical leadership in mentoring, engineering standards and platform strategy Ability to architect, optimise and standardise CI/CD frameworks Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines Ability to design and maintain automated deployment pipelines Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies Experience with multi-cluster infrastructure and platform engineering practices Selection Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters. Essential criteria 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 and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs. Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA) Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation''s planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation''s needs. Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA) Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components. Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA) Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration. Testing: Level 4 (SFIA) Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others. Desirable criteria Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA) Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.