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Systems Engineer

Australian Secret Intelligence Service · Adelaide SA

Hiring organisation
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Location
Adelaide SA
Employment
Permanent
Posted
6 July 2026
Closing date
30 September 2026
Source checked
27 July 2026

About this role

Systems Engineer - L4 — EL1 Systems Engineers in ASIS maintain highly specialised systems delivering to operational teams around the globe. We have a large number of systems delivering a variety of services at a range of maturities. Extending beyond a normal systems administration role, there is never a dull moment and we work closely with our data scientists and analytical teams to have a real impact. Key Responsibilities and Tasks • Build, maintain and support development, test and production environments including CI/CD • Implement and maintain best-practice security controls, including both on-system and throughout the development lifecycle • Develop and maintain high-quality documentation including logical, system and network design documentation • Perform analysis of monitoring, error reporting, alerting and issue reports to find the root cause of problems • Collaborate with other engineers and data scientists to implement robust and scalable software solutions in a problem space like no other • Contribute to the design and development of ground-breaking solutions for unique data challenges across the ASIS mission • Independently learn and develop new skills and techniques with an eye to practical applications • Communicate regularly and pre-emptively with peers and colleagues to keep everyone informed Education, Qualification and Experience Requirements The following education, qualifications and/or experience will be highly regarded: • Formal training, such as a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field • Experience in designing and maintaining large scale storage systems (Gluster, Ceph, etc) • Strong containerisation experience using Docker, Podman and Kubernetes • Experience in distributed computing technologies particularly Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Solr • Strong experience in designing and tuning high-performance compute and AI infrastructure

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