Defence Applications & Systems Engineer

Showtime Consulting; Australia; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Showtime Consulting is seeking up to three Application / Systems Engineers to join a Defence-focused team delivering critical systems, applications and infrastructure platforms across Australia. You will work with engineering, project, and operations teams to sustain Defence capabilities and ensure mission-critical outcomes.

Ideal candidates bring broad technical exposure across systems administration, application support, and integration, with strong troubleshooting and stakeholder engagement

Qualifications

• NV1 Australian Government Security Clearance (minimum).
• NV2 Australian Government Security Clearance highly regarded.
• Experience in systems engineering, application support, or related technical roles.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience across application, infrastructure, and integration environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience supporting mission-critical or highly secure environments.
• Defence experience highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support the deployment, configuration, maintenance, and optimisation of Defence applications and systems.
• Perform systems administration, troubleshooting, and issue resolution across diverse technology environments.
• Assist with systems integration activities between applications, services, and infrastructure components.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and operational health.
• Investigate and resolve technical incidents, outages, and service issues.
• Collaborate with engineers, developers, project teams, and stakeholders to deliver technical outcomes.
• Assist with upgrades, patching, configuration changes, and environment improvements.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, support procedures, and operational artefacts.
• Support testing, validation, and deployment activities across project and operational environments.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on reliability, security, and performance.

Skills

Systems engineering

Application support

Systems administration

Systems integration

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Team collaboration

Defence environments

Tools

Monitoring & support tools

Job description

Showtime Consulting is seeking up to three Application / Systems Engineers to join a Defence-focused team delivering critical systems, applications and infrastructure platforms across Australia. You will work with engineering, project, and operations teams to sustain Defence capabilities and ensure mission-critical outcomes.

Ideal candidates bring broad technical exposure across systems administration, application support, and integration, with strong troubleshooting and stakeholder engagement