Senior System Analyst

Local Peoples is seeking enthusiastic and talented Senior System Analyst in the ACT, QLD, SA, VIC to join our team as embedded members with our prestigious Government client.

The Cyber Secrets Management project is focused on implementation and agency adoption of a secrets management solution (HashiCorp Vault) to increase cyber security capability and reduce enterprise risk. The project is seeking a technical Senior Systems Analyst with cyber security specialisation. The role focuses on engagement with potential technical and non-technical consumers to analyse their current secrets management practices and evaluate and design integration solution proposals using HashiCorp Vault to meet their business needs.

The resource will be closely working with the Engagement Lead, Technical Lead, and project management staff within the internal team to articulate design requirements to feed into the engineering backlog of work. The Senior Systems Analyst will be required to undertake work that is highly complex or sensitive and operate under broad direction. They will exercise a considerable degree of independence. Given the nature of the role and technology, the resource should have significant technical experience with a broad range of technologies and experience working with different applications development and infrastructure teams.

The following experience and knowledge are required: Technical systems analyst experience working across a broad range of capabilities such as Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Integration, DevSecOps, CI/CD. Demonstrated systems analyst experience working with a Secrets Management Solution within complex ICT environments. Preferably HashiCorp Vault. Understanding of credential usage in a complex ICT environment, risks relating to the compromise of credentials, and techniques to mitigate risks.

Primary Technologies.

• HashiCorp Vault, CompTIA Security+ or ISC2 CISSP

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Perform detailed analysis and evaluation of business processes and requirements Create solution designs and implement solutions to meet business needs.

• Create and maintain solution documents.

• Support daily operations and monitor performance of business solutions.

• Adhere to delivery and support methodologies and contribute ideas for improvement.

• Perform detailed technical application assessments considering feasibility, resource effort, risks and benefits.

• Conduct testing activities such as test planning, execution coverage reviews and defect management.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define tasks, resolve issues, solve problems and ensure effective and timely implementation of projects.

• Undertake project quality management tasks such as peer and quality reviews of specifications, design and testing documents.

• Review research, process models and documentation of other staff, providing guidance and feedback.

• Resolve or escalate issues as required and suggest alternative approaches and solutions.

• Perform cost analysis activities as required.

• Manage the life cycle of changes and improvements to systems.

• Contribute towards team performance and engagement through coaching capability development set priorities, manage resources, and assist with the development of work plans exercise delegations in line with legislation and guidelines as required.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrated Systems Analyst experience working with a secrets management solution within complex ICT environments - preferably HashiCorp Vault. Response should consider experience with secrets managements concepts such as authentication methods, system integrations and configuration of a secrets management solution to support stakeholder needs.

• Demonstrated technical Systems Analyst experience working across a broad range of capabilities, such as DevSecOps, CI/CD, Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Integration.

• Demonstrated understanding of credential usage in a complex ICT environment, identifying risks relating to the compromise of credentials, and working with stakeholders to propose and implement solutions to mitigate risks.

• Demonstrated experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to elicit requirements and support them to adopt a capability or product. Response should consider approach to working with teams onboarding the capability/product as well as best practices and lessons learned from prior implementations.

• Demonstrated experience developing and documenting system specifications and modelling (e.g. UML and BPMN) in consultation with technical stakeholders.

• The agency has a complex ICT environment. Please describe your strategy to quickly upskill in our environment, technologies and projects.

Residency & Clearance:

• Must have NV1
  
• Australian Citizen
  
• This role is open to ACT, QLD, SA, VIC
  

Who are Local Peoples?

Local Peoples is a strategic research and design studio based in Melbourne and Canberra.

Our mission is to design healthy, resilient and resourceful communities. We are proud to be a certified B-Corporation with a strong focus on our social, environmental and economic impact.

We work across brand and digital design, place and experience design,, content and community engagement. Our key partners include state and local government, social enterprises, universities and large commercial organisations. All are experiencing complex challenges right now and we believe that design research, thinking and delivery can help to solve these challenges and make positive change for people and the planet.

We produce www.mattersjournal.com, a publication and community of 100K+, which focuses on design-led social innovation and impact.

Benefits of working with Local Peoples:

• We are experts in team design and augmentation - supporting with the right skills and experience at the right time.

• We are leaders in the human centred design space with diverse design skills across brand design, service design, User interface (UI) and User experience (UX) design, design research, communications and place design.
• We are a certified B-Corporation and prioritise the social, environmental and economic impact of our work.
• Our people always have the full support of the studio to call upon for design thinking, tools and tips, so you are not just getting access to one bright mind, but a collective of many with diverse and deep experiences.
• We are top tier talent who are experienced and incredibly passionate about supporting the impact of your agency and the public sector