Application closing date: Monday, 01 September 2025 • 11:59pm, Canberra time
Estimated start date: Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Location of work: TAS
Working arrangements: Hybrid working arrangements will be considered with a split between office days and work from home.
Length of contract: Until 30 June 2026
Contract extensions: Up to 2x 12 months
Security clearance: Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1 (Must have an existing Baseline clearance)
Rates: $110 - $130 per hour (inc. super)
The Funding and Disclosure Reform Program was established to enable the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to implement and administer legislative amendments to the Commonwealth Funding and Disclosure Scheme (the Scheme) as set out in Part XX of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Electoral Act) to increase transparency and accountability in Australia’s electoral system. The Program is made up of three branches – the Program Management Office Branch, the Regulatory Enablement Branch, and the Technology Delivery Branch – that will work together to uplift the AEC’s regulatory capability by designing, building and implementing new processes, resourcing, tools, systems and technology to successfully administer the Scheme.
The AEC is seeking to engage up to three suitably qualified and experienced Infrastructure Engineer who will be cruical for ensuring the efficient, automated, and reliable deployment of integration solutions across the AEC’s diverse enterprise application landscape. The role requires developing efficient, scalable, and secure integration solutions and APIs that connect the AEC’s systems, as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams to support these systems through testing, quality assurance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and issue resolution. The Infrastructure Engineer in the Systems and Platforms Team is central to ensuring the efficient, automated, and reliable deployment of integration solutions across the AEC’s diverse landscape of enterprise applications.

Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for, but not limited, to:

• Collaborating with System Analysts, Data Engineers, and stakeholders to design and develop integration solutions that meet business requirements and technical constraints, utilising Microsoft Azure tools like App Services, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus.
• Designing, developing, and implementing high-quality APls ensuring reusability, reliability, scalability, and security. Managing API versions effectively, ensuring backward compatibility and seamless transitions between versions.
• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code for integration components.
• Troubleshooting and resolving integration-related issues, working closely with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• Conducting code reviews. Planning and executing comprehensive testing strategies, including unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing, to verify the reliability, accuracy, and performance of integration solutions.
• Monitoring performance, identifying bottlenecks, and optimising for speed, scalability, and efficiency.
• Maintaining detailed documentation of solutions, including technical specifications and deployment procedures. Documenting API endpoints, authentication methods, and usage examples, to ensure ease of use for internal and external developers.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, system analysts, integration testers, and other stakeholders to align DevOps practices with project goals and timelines, fostering a culture of collaboration.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and provide input on cloud strategy, scalability, and interoperability.
• Ensure compliance with Australian Government security frameworks (e.g. ISM, PSPF etc)
• Staying up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, integration patterns, and best practices, and applying this knowledge to optimise and enhance existing integration processes.
• Support change management and release coordination, ensuring integration components are deployed smoothly across environments.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and provide input on cloud strategy, scalability, and interoperability.
• Ensure compliance with Australian Government security frameworks (e.g. ISM, PSPF etc)
• Monitor and troubleshoot integration workflows, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across environments.

HOW TO APPLY

Please provide an updated CV (a maximum of 3 pages) to reflect your suitability to the role based on the job description. You will also need to complete a response to the Essential and Desirable criteria above in a summary no more than 5000 characters in total

• Collaborating with System Analysts, Data Engineers, and stakeholders to design and develop integration solutions that meet business requirements and technical constraints, utilising Microsoft Azure tools like App Services, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus.
• Designing, developing, and implementing high-quality APls ensuring reusability, reliability, scalability, and security. Managing API versions effectively, ensuring backward compatibility and seamless transitions between versions.
• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code for integration components.
• Troubleshooting and resolving integration-related issues, working closely with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• Conducting code reviews. Planning and executing comprehensive testing strategies, including unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing, to verify the reliability, accuracy, and performance of integration solutions.
• Monitoring performance, identifying bottlenecks, and optimising for speed, scalability, and efficiency.
• Maintaining detailed documentation of solutions, including technical specifications and deployment procedures. Documenting API endpoints, authentication methods, and usage examples, to ensure ease of use for internal and external developers.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, system analysts, integration testers, and other stakeholders to align DevOps practices with project goals and timelines, fostering a culture of collaboration.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and provide input on cloud strategy, scalability, and interoperability.
• Ensure compliance with Australian Government security frameworks (e.g. ISM, PSPF etc)
• Staying up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, integration patterns, and best practices, and applying this knowledge to optimise and enhance existing integration processes.
• Support change management and release coordination, ensuring integration components are deployed smoothly across environments.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and provide input on cloud strategy, scalability, and interoperability.
• Ensure compliance with Australian Government security frameworks (e.g. ISM, PSPF etc)
• Monitor and troubleshoot integration workflows, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across environments