Leidos Australia have a permanent full-time opportunity for a Database Engineer to join our team in a role that offers great flexible work arrangements including remote work. Reporting to the Program Technical Lead and working within our team responsible for the implementation, support and maintenance of a large enterprise environment you will be responsible for supporting the customer platform, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, and supporting database hardware and software.

As a talented member of our multidisciplinary teams, you will rapidly grow and progress with us across a diverse and influential Federal Government and Defence portfolio.  This is a rare opportunity to join the team who gets to influence programs today that will redefine the customer’s business tomorrow.

In this role you will perform the following functions as individual assignments or as part of a team:

• Produce enterprise database designs and make recommendations for upgrades, designs and implementations;
• Implement and test database upgrades;
• Design and implement data migration activities;
• Perform Level 2 and 3 platform support including management and administration of database products;
• Maintain database design and implementation documentation;
• Implement organisational objectives for database improvement and compliance with industry standards;
• Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Maintaining currency of the environment, where possible.
• Develops and configures tools to enable automation of database administration tasks.
• Source and analyse relevant subject matter documentation
• Contribute to IT Support process and policy development
• Providing input into policies, procedures, and SOP’s relating to maintenance and management of the operational database infrastructure. Interact with users and technical subject matter experts to ensure delivery is fit for purpose.

The Team

The End User Compute team consists of deployed engineers to customer sites and roaming technicians. The team have a strong technical background and can sufficiently handle most technical requests that an end user may log. Success is measured by customer feedback and leading indicators of support health including the age of open tickets.

The Role

As Customer Experience Engineer you will provide end user support for all technology issues and request that are escalated by the customer service analysts. You will ensure customer service agreements are met and provide a single point of contact for ownership of escalated requests and issues. The role will be based in our Sydney office and at our main client’s office in Port Botany, NSW.

Your core responsibilities will consist of:

• Ensuring all policies, procedures and work instructions are followed in the interests of customer satisfaction and contractual obligations in agreed hours.
• Resolve incidents and requests within SLA.
• Escalate to 3rd party support/ vendors where appropriate.
• Initiate and complete problem diagnosis & produce recommendations.
• Produce KBA’s (Knowledge based articles) to enable the Service Desk Analysts to close more cases.
• Enforcing and reviewing process to ensure documentation is current and to initiation escalation as required.
• Implement authorised changes.
• Diagnosing issues and provide solutions, utilising knowledge entries where possible.
• Maintaining accurate ICT spares inventory.
• Providing remote diagnostic troubleshooting and checks for customer incidents.

What will you bring?

• Strong technical understanding of LAN/WAN/Voice/Security/Server/Desktop technologies with demonstrable experience in one or more technologies.
• Possess a strong understanding of ITIL processes.
• Australia drivers licence is required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to priorities a high demanding workload and conscientious of time management.
• Pride yourself on being a self-starter who works well under pressure with high attention to detail.
• Exhibit outstanding customer management skills.
• Have a passion and desire to develop and share knowledge.

As a valued member of ‘Logicalis Australia’ you will enjoy several benefits, such as;

• Supportive team environment: Confidential pulse checks tell us we are known for being "Unselfish with knowledge", "Flexible and Diverse" and "Give a shout-out and there will always be help"
• Pick your own adventure: Our people have moved from Help-desk to Cloud-Engineering. Admin to Project/Program Management. Project Management to Product Development. If something interests you, we’ll fund you to learn it, so you can become it!
• Breadth of experience and purpose: People here can have an idea, make a plan, and see it through. Our people enjoy genuinely impacting change and controlling their professional success.
• Flexible, modern, working arrangements: Find your own method for collaboration and productivity to achieve a happy balance.

*Do I need to meet all the requirements to apply?*
Studies by several different sources have shown that, on average, men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. In contrast, women/non-binary people will seek to match a much higher percentage of the requirements before applying.

We encourage everyone to apply and give us a chance to evaluate your skills and experience. We are all learning on the job, and although the listing above has been carefully compiled, we are also open-minded and interested to hear about the value you can bring to the role and Logicalis.

*How can I demonstrate that I have particular needs in the application process?*
For people living with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or neurodiversity, adjustments and support can make a decisive difference in the application process. If you need any specific accommodations (tools, time, etc.) and feel comfortable disclosing this, please let us know.

Why join Chuffed.org?

We're a purpose-led crowdfunding platform that's amplifying the actions of ordinary people who are changing the world on issues like climate justice, Black Lives Matter and refugee rights. 

To date we’ve helped raise $100M+ across 20,000 campaigns in 23 countries and are backed by Blackbird Ventures & the Telstra Foundation.

Our team have supported the Biloela family to get back home, fought alongside the Wangan & Jagalingou Cultural Custodians to Stop Adani, and helped back the most significant climate change action groups across the world; Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Last Generation and more. 

What you’ll do

You’ll spend your days building and maintaining the products and features that help make Chuffed the preferred crowdfunding platform for the biggest direct action groups in the world.

Here’s how you’ll spend your days:

1. Lead the development team in designing, implementing, and maintaining high-quality applications.
2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and specifications.
3. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
4. Oversee the development and implementation of scalable and efficient PHP code using PHP 8 and Laravel 10.
5. Manage and optimise MySQL databases to ensure high performance and reliability.
6. Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
7. Solutions architect a technology strategy, considering key factors as risk assessment, scaling, re-usability and resource allocation
8. Work with stakeholders to assess feasibility and deliverability of solutions
9. Understand the business context of development initiatives to align technology solutions with organisational objectives.

About You

• You have proven experience as a Senior Developer in a Laravel environment.

• You have in-depth knowledge of PHP 8 and Laravel 10, with a strong understanding of modern PHP development best practices.
• You have a strong growth mindset - you’re not afraid to take risks, fail and learn. You’re always looking for ways to develop and improve your skill set.
• You’re passionate about social justice and have a strong desire to help Chuffed campaigners succeed

Bonus points if you have

• Experience with IaC principals/tooling (Terraform)
• Front-end experience with frameworks (ReactJS)
• Experience with GraphQL APIs
• Experience with AWS (ECS, Elasticache, RDS)
• Proven success mentoring other developers

• $140k-150k plus superannuation plus equity ownership in Chuffed.org.
• We value work-life balance. Work autonomously from home and meet up with the team intermittently to collaborate in-person. We’re based in Sydney but open to remote employees within Australia. 
• Work alongside industry leading marketers and digital engineers in a small and agile team with deep industry connections
• Spend your days amplifying the work of campaigners pushing for progressive social change around the world

We’re building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages and abilities to apply. We value all kinds of experiences, so even if you don’t meet all of the requirements outlined above, we encourage you to apply.

Simple Machines’ mission is to ensure our clients get the most out of their data by designing and building modern data platforms, engineering data powered software applications and products, and enabling engineering and data driven business focussed use-cases.

We need you to help us design and deliver a fantastic program of data focussed engineering projects for our globally distributed client base.

Simple Machines is looking to hire a talented Analytics Engineers to join our amazing team.

This is a full-time hybrid role to be based in our Darlinghurst, Sydney office.

About the role

You’ll work closely with our engineering and analytics teams to understand client needs and design and successfully deliver business critical solutions.

Sound good so far?

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

• Write maintainable and performant transformations in analytical warehouses.
• Work with data modellers to understand transformation requirements.
• Work with business users to produce reports or optimise reporting layers.
• Orchestration of production transformations.

What we need from you as an individual.

• Above all, be a great internal and external communicator. You’ll possess a hospitality mindset in managing and engaging collaboratively with all stakeholders, inside and outside the business
• Lead from the front and by example. You’ll take true ownership of tasks, taking responsibility for goals and outcomes
• Bring a genuine fit-for-purpose mindset to everything that you do
• Strong SQL engineering, client engagement and communication skills are an absolute must
• Demonstrate a genuine passion for technology and continually learning – a growth mindset that believes there is always, always more to know
• Exhibit a humble, low-ego attitude

The technology experience we’re looking for.

The required skills that we’re after:

• Deep experience with SQL
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of benefits and trade-offs between analytical and transactional databases
• Experience with one or more data warehouses, e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Greenplum, Teradata.
• Experience with query performance optimisation.
• Understanding of benefits between modelling techniques, e.g. star schema, dimensional, denormalised.
• Programming experience.

The skills that we would love for you to have but that aren’t essential:

• Experience with orchestration of production data transformations, e.g. with tooling like Airflow
• Understanding of modern data formats, e.g. Parquet, Avro
• Experience with data validation and data quality techniques
• Experience with software development lifecycle tooling, e.g. git
• Experience with building data projects in DBT
• Development experience with languages such as python, spark

orking at Simple Machines

We’re looking for someone who’s as passionate as we are about building a world-class technology company specialising in engineering for data.

Just some of the benefits of working with Simple Machines include:

• Generous parental leave: Three months’ fully paid primary carer leave and one month fully paid secondary carer leave, subject to a minimum 12 month tenure.
• Learning and development: We all love continually learning and have a generous budget for you to upskill, join conferences, get certified and qualified.
• Lunch is on us. Always! We happily supply lunch at each of our office locations every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

About Simple Machines

Simple Machines isn’t your typical consultancy. Rather, we’re a firm of passionate and talented expert consultants that are as much a community as a company.

When we set out to make a difference nearly 10 years ago, we did so because we weren’t happy with the status quo of technology consultancies. We wanted to build a company we would want to hire ourselves. And we’ve done just that.

At the core of our company is a team of talented individuals, many of whom are at the top of their field. We regularly present at local and international conferences, committing to many of the open-source projects we utilise in our day-to-day engagements and release many other projects back to the broader technology community. 

It would be great if you could join us.

Apply now and let’s see where the connection takes us.