Details: Do you want to enrich your community by providing digital government services that are so easy, they just happen? That’s what Digital Canberra is here to do. We deliver and support digital government services that are easy to access, save time, and are safe to use.

Digital Canberra is seeking an enthusiastic Database administrator to contribute to a business system uplift project, supporting the delivery of modern, secure, and reliable systems.

As part of a Multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high-quality support for systems including design, enhancement and troubleshooting. The successful candidate will have extensive experience with Windows Database administration along with one or more of the below Technologies and will collaborate with technical teams to uplift business systems.

Experience with one of more of the following technologies is highly desirable:

• Microsoft Office 365
• Azure / AWS Cloud Technologies
• Microsoft Server Operating Systems and related infrastructure
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft IIS, Azure WebApps
• Microsoft Systems Centre Operations Manager (SCOM)
• VMware vSphere ESX including vCenter
• Commvault Data Protection Suite
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN)
• Networking, including Azure Networking and Network segmentation

Refer to the Position Description for further information about this role. You may wish to speak to the listed Contact Officer if you have any queries once you have reviewed the Position Description.

What we offer

At Digital Canberra, we offer a rewarding government career that has a direct, positive impact on your neighbourhood. You may be strategic, helping us lead technology investment decisions to build a genuinely connected Canberra. Or you may enjoy the hands-on satisfaction of working with the latest technology to keep our hospitals, schools, and government running. At Digital Canberra, you will make a difference!

As part of the ACT Public Service (ACTPS), Digital Canberra offers some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in Australia. Flexible working in the ACTPS means we provide the opportunity to work remotely (from home) or from a choice of office locations around Canberra, although the exact arrangements will be discussed with your hiring manager, based on operational needs.

Canberra is Australia’s capital – a welcoming, unique city with a quality of life that many cities aspire to. It’s the perfect place to raise children, take advantage of world-class cultural institutions, and enjoy the great outdoors. Canberra is primed for technology evolution. As a young and growing city, the shape of our community and our digital government services will continue to change.

Just like our city, Digital Canberra is inclusive. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply. We welcome candidates who have the right to work in Australia, which may include temporary and permanent visa holders (subject to your visa conditions and security clearance restrictions).

If you want to be part of our exciting journey to transform Canberra into a digital powerhouse, apply for this job today!

Eligibility/Other requirements: Current AGSVA NV1 security clearance or ability to obtain and hold a NV1 security clearance is mandatory.

Notes: This is a temporary position available immediately until 30 June 2027 with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.

A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.

Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.

How to apply: For further information, please visit www.jobs.act.gov.au