Senior Infrastructure Engineer

This role is a full-time opportunity to join the Local Peoples team permanently, with your first project supporting one of our Federal Government Clients. Local Peoples partners with government agencies to deliver robust ICT infrastructure and technical engineering solutions. Beyond this project, you would be contributing to impactful ICT initiatives that improve digital services, security, and system operations for agencies across Australia.

About the first project:

The initial engagement involves providing senior-level technical engineering expertise to manage and maintain the Government client's ICT platforms. You will work on infrastructure design, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of technical components including IBM ISVA, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM MQ, and App Connect Enterprise (ACE). This role includes hybrid working arrangements across QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, and SA, supporting strategic ICT operations and ensuring the resilience, security, and efficiency of agency systems.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the design, installation, configuration, and operation of ICT system landscapes, transport processes, and client components.

• Provide technical support for project build, testing, and solution deployment activities.

• Configure and maintain non-functional platform capabilities including job scheduling, output management, email, archiving, technical security, and system connectivity.

• Liaise with infrastructure teams on hardware procurement and deployment.

• Maintain patches, support packages, and perform routine updates across technical layers.

• Oversee backups, high availability, and disaster recovery operations for ICT systems.

• Administer databases, execute data archiving, and forecast infrastructure growth.

• Perform problem management, root cause analysis, and technical troubleshooting.

• Support integration and connectivity testing with internal and external stakeholders.

• Mentor and provide guidance to less experienced colleagues.

• Contribute to ICT strategy, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Degree or Diploma in Software Engineering

• Minimum 3 years’ experience working with IBM ISVA, WebSphere technologies, and/or Message Queue technologies

• Competent in coding/fault-finding in Java, JavaScript, Python, Ansible, XML, and XSLT

Essential Criteria:

• Proven experience in ICT technical engineering, infrastructure management, and system maintenance

• Expert knowledge in Service-Oriented Architectures, Governance Frameworks, and Message Queue Manager

• Experience with integration technologies, OAuth/OIDC, SAML 2.0, MFA, MQ, ACE, and WAS

• Strong organisational and time management skills with ability to meet priorities and tight deadlines

Residency and Clearance

• Must have Baseline Clearance or be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1

• Australian Citizen

• This role is open to hybrid working arrangements across QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, and SA

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.

Why join Local Peoples?

• Representative and inclusive - we are dedicated to building an inclusive and accessible workplace for people from diverse backgrounds

• Impact driven - work towards achieving real impact for people and the environment

• Fantastic culture - driven by a welcoming, supportive and collaborative team environment

• Professional support for design excellence- benefit from being a part of one of Australia’s fastest growing design and delivery communities

• Flexible working arrangements - including the ability to work remotely

• Market rate salaries - attractive remuneration packages in line with the market rate

• Flexible employment types - including the preference for permanent, but will consider contracting

Local Peoples proudly supports the LGBTQ+ community, neurodiverse individuals, and First Nations people. We are committed to creating inclusive spaces where everyone, regardless of their identity, feels valued and respected. Together, we strive for equality and a positive future for all.

Local Peoples works, creates, and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong, and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognize and pay our deepest respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land