Data Engineer
- 10 Mar 2020
- ACT
- Contract
- Engage with the open source community
- develop and apply scalable data science workflows
- Contract till June 2021
The Agency
This agency is the government's technical adviser on all aspects of geoscience, and custodian of the geographic and geological data and knowledge of the nation
Whats in it for you ?
Work on developing and applying scalable data science workflows for Digital Earth Australia and Digital Earth Africa.
The role will involve creating data pipelines and processing techniques that work in both super computer and in cloud computing environments.
What is the Job?
● Create and maintain operational data processing pipelines
● Work with others to continue to develop and maintain the Open Data Cube
● Explore new ways of processing data that save time and deliver improved outcomes
● Work together with a diverse team of people to develop maintainable and well documented code
● Work with cloud engineers to help build and run cloud native solutions
● Provide technical advice to software engineers, data scientists and executive stakeholders via Slack, Github, email and formal documentation
● Join program-wide coordination ceremonies such as daily stand ups, three week sprints and program increment planning
● Engage with the open source community
Our Ideal Candidate Our ideal candidate will have:
● Extensive experience with Python and/or similar programming languages
● Extensive experience with source control management and related processes
● Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
● Working knowledge of AWS and infrastructure as code
● Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
● Knowledge of Linux system administration and relevant scripting languages
Also desirable is:
● Knowledge of Geographic Information Systems and experience working with large volumes of raster data
● Experience working with Postgresql and PostGIS
● Experience using Docker and Kubernetes
● Experience with Flask Python framework or equivalent
● Experience using distributed computing tools like Dask
Our Ideal Candidate?
Our ideal candidate will have:
Whilst this is a Canberra based role - there is NO requirement for any Security clearance - so we will consider all candidates with full Australian work rights.
So want to do some cool techie stuff - Apply online
This agency is the government's technical adviser on all aspects of geoscience, and custodian of the geographic and geological data and knowledge of the nation
Whats in it for you ?
Work on developing and applying scalable data science workflows for Digital Earth Australia and Digital Earth Africa.
The role will involve creating data pipelines and processing techniques that work in both super computer and in cloud computing environments.
What is the Job?
● Create and maintain operational data processing pipelines
● Work with others to continue to develop and maintain the Open Data Cube
● Explore new ways of processing data that save time and deliver improved outcomes
● Work together with a diverse team of people to develop maintainable and well documented code
● Work with cloud engineers to help build and run cloud native solutions
● Provide technical advice to software engineers, data scientists and executive stakeholders via Slack, Github, email and formal documentation
● Join program-wide coordination ceremonies such as daily stand ups, three week sprints and program increment planning
● Engage with the open source community
Our Ideal Candidate Our ideal candidate will have:
● Extensive experience with Python and/or similar programming languages
● Extensive experience with source control management and related processes
● Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
● Working knowledge of AWS and infrastructure as code
● Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
● Knowledge of Linux system administration and relevant scripting languages
Also desirable is:
● Knowledge of Geographic Information Systems and experience working with large volumes of raster data
● Experience working with Postgresql and PostGIS
● Experience using Docker and Kubernetes
● Experience with Flask Python framework or equivalent
● Experience using distributed computing tools like Dask
Our Ideal Candidate?
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Extensive experience with Python and/or similar programming languages
- Extensive experience with source control management and related processes
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Working knowledge of AWS and infrastructure as code
- Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
- Knowledge of Linux system administration and relevant scripting languages
- Knowledge of Geographic Information Systems and experience working with large volumes of raster data
- Experience working with Postgresql and PostGIS
- Experience using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Flask Python framework or equivalent
Whilst this is a Canberra based role - there is NO requirement for any Security clearance - so we will consider all candidates with full Australian work rights.
So want to do some cool techie stuff - Apply online