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Job Description

This position is posted by our organization on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a QA & Verifications Engineer in Australia.

In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the quality, integrity, and reliability of complex software systems through rigorous verification and testing processes. You will work across backend, frontend, and DevOps environments, contributing to high-impact technical solutions. Collaborating closely with engineering teams and clients, you will translate technical requirements into robust verification workflows. Your work will directly influence product stability, customer trust, and operational excellence. You will operate in a dynamic, remote-first environment that values innovation, ownership, and continuous learning. This position offers strong growth opportunities and hands-on exposure to diverse technologies.

Accountabilities

• Perform comprehensive software verification using technical documentation and defined requirements
• Build, configure, and validate software across multiple programming languages and environments
• Execute end-to-end testing scenarios using both manual and automated testing approaches
• Identify, diagnose, and document bugs, defects, and performance issues, ensuring high quality standards
• Analyze build pipelines, dependencies, and system configurations to resolve complex technical challenges
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and clients to align on requirements and testing outcomes
• Contribute to backend, frontend, and DevOps tasks, including CI/CD pipeline improvements
• Continuously enhance verification processes, testing strategies, and tooling

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software development, QA engineering, or DevOps roles
• 2+ years of experience working with Linux, Windows, and macOS environments
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of backend languages such as Python, Java, Node.js, and PHP
• Familiarity with databases and server configurations including SQL, MySQL, and MongoDB
• Experience using Git and version control workflows
• Basic knowledge of frontend technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Exposure to AWS technologies, API configuration, and modern CI/CD tools is a plus
• Experience with build tools such as Maven, Webpack, MSBuild, or similar
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and time-management skills
• Ability to adapt quickly, work independently, and collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary package based on experience and location
• Fully remote work setup with flexible working hours
• Supportive and collaborative team culture
• Comprehensive onboarding and ramp-up program
• Regular team activities and virtual gatherings
• Professional growth and continuous learning opportunities
• Modern tools, supportive leadership, and a high-impact working environment

The organization is a sovereign, Australian-owned cybersecurity and engineering consultancy delivering robust, secure-by-design solutions for Federal Government, Defence, and industry. As we continue to scale our national capability, we are expanding our engineering team and seeking talented professionals who want to contribute to projects of national impact.

We are looking for experienced Engineers across multiple disciplines — including Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Network & Infrastructure Engineering, SOE/MOE Engineering, Application & Platform Engineering, and DevOps/Automation to support the delivery of complex, high-assurance environments.

You will play a key role in designing, implementing, and uplifting secure technology platforms that underpin mission-critical systems. Our engineers work alongside IRAP assessors, security architects, GRC specialists, and project managers to deliver integrated, end-to-end outcomes for government clients.

What You’ll Do

Depending on your engineering specialty, responsibilities may include:

• Designing and implementing secure cloud, network, identity, or end-user computing environments.
• Supporting the delivery and uplift of ACSC Essential Eight controls and broader security hardening initiatives.
• Building and automating platform capabilities (IaC, CI/CD, scripting, infrastructure automation).
• Engineering solutions for classified and PROTECTED environments, including gateways, VDI, secure remote access, and data-centre modernisation.
• Performing technical troubleshooting, optimisation, and lifecycle management of critical systems.
• Developing documentation, engineering standards, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with ISM, PSPF, NIST CSF, and Defence requirements.
• Providing technical input into risk assessments, design reviews, incident response activities, and security uplift programs.

About You

You are an engineer who:

• Has proven experience in one or more domains (Cloud, Network, Security, SOE, DevOps, Applications, Platforms).
• Understands secure environments, government standards, and modern engineering practices.
• Can work autonomously and within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Holds (or can obtain as an Australian Citizen) an active AGSVA security clearance
• Is motivated by meaningful work that strengthens Australia’s cyber and data resilience.

Technical Skills

We are interested in engineers with experience in one or more of the following:

• Cloud: Azure, AWS, Entra ID, PIM, Landing Zones, Well-Architected Framework
• Network: Firewalling, secure gateways, routing/switching, VPN, segmentation, Zero Trust
• Security Engineering: Identity, MFA, EDR/SIEM integration, Airlock Digital, Splunk, Sentinel, Tenable
• SOE/MOE: Windows 10/11, Intune/MECM, secure baselines, application packaging
• DevOps: CI/CD, GitHub/Azure DevOps, containers (EKS/ECS/AKS), automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python), Terraform/ARM/Bicep
• Data Centre & Platform: VDI, VMware, storage, backup, monitoring, system hardening

Why Join Our Organization?

• Work on projects that protect Australia’s most sensitive environments.
• Be part of a sovereign, growing business with strong Federal Government partnerships.
• Join a multi-skilled team of security engineers, IRAP assessors, architects, and consultants.
• Clearly defined career pathways and growth opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive, high-performance culture.
• Opportunities to shape and influence our engineering practice as we scale.

About the Role

The role involves working with a world-class business and technical team where you'll be challenged to learn and grow as a professional. The company offers a competitive salary and expects high performance, commitment, and ownership of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain front-end applications using React, CSS, and Javascript.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial experience with React, CSS, and Javascript.
• Experience with EXT JS and frameworks like Spring Boots.
• Desirable skills include Java, SQL, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, React Native, Mobile App development, and AWS Ops.

Career Progression

Opportunities to move into roles such as Team Leader or Product Manager.

Compensation

• Base salary: $150K to $170K per annum + Super
• Quarterly Bonuses: $7.5K per quarter ($30K per annum)
• Share Options: Sign-up bonus worth $50K
• Yearly Salary Review

The role

We're looking for a Founding Engineer to become the most senior technical contributor on the ground locally, working directly alongside the CTO. You'll take full-stack ownership across the platform (application, infrastructure and tooling), while providing technical leadership to a small team of engineers based in India.

This is primarily a hands-on individual contributor role. You'll be writing code every day, making pragmatic architecture decisions, and helping establish the engineering standards and practices that will carry our organization through its next stage of growth.

What you'll own

• Full-stack platform development: feature development across the React/TypeScript frontend and Node.js/Express backend
• Infrastructure and IaC: leading the migration to Terraform-managed infrastructure on AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ALB, ECR, Secrets Manager and more)
• Integration connectors: designing and building new platform connectors and extending existing ones as the supported platform catalogue grows
• Security and compliance posture: contributing to the ongoing ISO 27001 certification effort, pen test remediation, and AWS security services (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Config)
• CI/CD and developer tooling: maintaining and improving GitHub Actions-based deployment pipelines across staging and production environments
• Technical leadership: quality standards across the engineering team through code reviews and best-practices
• On-call shared responsibility: sharing critical incident response with the CTO on a rotating basis

About you

• Demonstrated startup experience, you understand the trade-offs between moving fast and building well
• 8+ years experience building production-grade software
• Deep familiarity with DevOps using AWS and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring and have previously held senior roles within engineering (Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Principal Engineer)
• Experience building or maintaining third-party API integrations within applications
• Pioneer AI developer tooling workflows that boost engineering productivity
• Right to work in Australia

Highly desirable

• Cross-functional communicator, capable of simplifying complex technical concepts for other teams and customers
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, API key management, and credential security patterns
• Exposure to security frameworks or compliance programmes (ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar)
• Background in MSP, ITSM, or enterprise software

Working at our organization

• Compensation: $160,000 – $200,000 base salary + superannuation + incentives
• Hours: Flexible - it's about output, not hours. Aside from office attendance, you'll need to be available for some overlap with our India-based team and share on-call critical incident coverage with the CTO on a rotating basis. On-call is not high-frequency but requires genuine availability when it matters.
• Stage: Funded, early-stage startup. The company has paying customers, live infrastructure, and a clear product direction but also the ambiguity and pace that comes with being a small team building something new.

Interview process

1. Screening call (~15 min) - a brief introductory conversation
2. Technical interview with the CTO (~60-90 min) - work through a problem where you will apply your AI-enabled development process and tooling; we want to understand how you work with AI in your day-to-day engineering. Afterwards, we will have a two-way Q&A - your opportunity to dig into the technical challenges, the codebase, and the team as much as ours to learn about you
3. Meet with the CEO (~30 min) - an in-person, non-technical chat to explore how we work, what matters to you, and whether this is the right environment for both sides

The Role

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Test & Evaluation (T&E) Engineer to support a major federal program delivering complex, mission-critical capability. Working closely with the T&E Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring systems are verified, validated, and delivered to the highest assurance standards, contributing directly to successful program outcomes in a highly collaborative environment.

Your duties will include:

• Coordinating planning, management, and reporting of T&E activities across the program lifecycle
• Supporting developmental, acceptance, operational, and in-service testing activities
• Developing and maintaining V&V and T&E strategies, master plans, and supporting documentation
• Coordinating verification, validation, and risk management activities to ensure program assurance
• Reviewing T&E and V&V artefacts to ensure quality, compliance, and completeness
• Providing expert advice on V&V methodologies, frameworks, and best practice improvements

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Strong knowledge of Systems Engineering frameworks and V&V lifecycle application
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing Systems Engineering plans with a focus on V&V
• Proven experience delivering T&E and V&V activities within complex Defence environments
• Experience providing assurance advice related to certification and system verification
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, technical writing, and communication skills
• Relevant engineering or T&E qualifications