Environmental Monitoring Applications Support - Application Maintenance And Operations Services

Affinity Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Affinity Group is seeking consultants for the Environmental Monitoring Applications Support Team to provide maintenance and operations services for several custom-built Java/Oracle and Postgres applications used by the Ministry of Environment.

You will analyze incidents, develop enhancements, support upgrades and migrations, prepare deployment and knowledge transfer materials, and collaborate with ministry staff to ensure stable, scalable application operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years in application maintenance, testing, deployment and production support.
• Strong experience with Java and Python applications.
• Experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience with OpenShift or container platforms.
• Experience with Agile delivery and Jira/Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of incidents and defects.
• Development, testing, and implementation of enhancements and changes.
• Maintenance and support of Ministry Environmental Monitoring applications.
• Support for upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Documentation, deployment guides, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Collaboration with ministry staff and stakeholders to ensure operations.

Skills

Java

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Tools

OpenShift

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Job description

Environmental Monitoring Applications Support - Application Maintenance and Operations Services

Environmental Monitoring Applications Support - Application Maintenance and Operations Services

Information Technology

Job Description:

On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is seeking consultants for the Environmental Monitoring Applications Support Team - Application Maintenance and Operations Services. The Contractor will provide Application Maintenance and Operations Services in support of several custom-built Java/Oracle and/or Postgres applications and related technologies. Work will be assigned through individual service requests based on operational priorities, business requirements, and resource availability.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of application incidents and defects.
• Development, testing, and implementation of application enhancements and approved changes.
• Maintenance and support of Ministry Environmental Monitoring applications and related technologies.
• Support for application upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Development and modification of application interfaces, integrations, reports, and database components.
• Preparation of technical documentation, deployment documentation, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Support for application testing activities, including unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Support for deployments and promotion of application changes through development, test, and production environments.
• Collaboration with Ministry staff and stakeholders to support ongoing application operations and service delivery.
• Provision of recommendations to improve application performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational support.
• Performing general administrative duties associated with the management of tasks, including general correspondence, day-to-day contact and coordination, administration, and monthly invoicing in a form that is acceptable to the Ministry.
• Preparing and presenting a schedule showing a breakdown of all tasks to be performed for each phase of work and their timeframe for completion.
• Attend status meetings to identify the activities that have been performed in the period, work activities anticipated in the upcoming period, and action items required of the Ministry.
• Identifying any delays and/or variances to identified tasks or scheduling; and
• Provide summary of meeting and action items within two business days of the meeting.

The team of Resources will provide the following services:

• Application Maintenance and Operations Services in support of several of the Ministry of Environment's custom-built Java/Oracle and/or Postgres applications and related technologies including maintenance activities (emergency fixes and nonemergency fixes), as well as the ongoing improvement or enhancement activities.
• Regular status reports on work in progress to the Ministry contact. These reports should include tasks completed, planned activities, issues, financial status, and schedule information.
• Signoffs of quality assurance and testing activities performed by the Contractor.
• If required by the nature of the Service Requests, updates to the code repositories, logical and physical data models may be required.
• If required by the nature of the Service Requests, updates to the documentation (confluence/Sharepoint/LAN); and application deliveries which will proceed as follows:
• o Schedule delivery with the Ministry contact.
• o If applicable, follow the application's documented deployment pattern (e.g. pull request, CI/CD, releases etc.)
• o Notify the Ministry contact that the delivery has been completed; and
• o For all application deliveries, expect at least one iteration of revisions based on review and feedback from the Ministry.
• o For all application deliveries, expect a delivery to a test environment, followed by UAT and then delivery to production.

Qualifications:

• Minimum five (5) years of recent experience in the last ten (10) years in Application Maintenance, enhancement, testing, deployment, incident management, defect resolution, production support, and release management, for Enterprise applications, including critical systems with public health and safety implications.
• Minimum five (5) years of recent experience within the last ten (10) years supporting and enhancing Java and Python based applications, including application analysis, troubleshooting, development, testing, deployment, and performance optimization.
• Minimum five (5) years of recent experience within the last ten (10) years working with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL databases, including SQL development, database design, performance tuning, stored procedures, data migration, and database troubleshooting.
• Minimum three (3) years of recent experience within the last ten (10) years deploying, supporting, administering, or maintaining applications hosted on Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent container platform, including containerized application deployments, configuration management, monitoring, troubleshooting, and environment management.
• Minimum three (3) years of recent experience within the last ten (10) years utilizing GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Jenkins, or equivalent CI/CD platforms to automate build, test, deployment, and release management processes.
• Minimum three (3) years of recent experience within the last ten (10) years preparing technical documentation, support documentation, deployment guides, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Minimum three (3) years of recent experience within the last ten (10) years utilizing Agile delivery methodologies and service request management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Github or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience with R, Nginx, React, Nest JS, Typescript.
• Demonstrated experience developing and supporting application integrations and web services (SOAP and/or REST).
• Demonstrated experience with Windows web servers (IIS, Apache, Tomcat).
• Demonstrated experience with applications with a userbase of 100-1000's.
• Demonstrated experience with applications using Spatial integration (ArcGIS, Google Maps API).
• Experience providing Application Maintenance and Operations Services for British Columbia public sector, provincial government, natural resource sector, environmental sector, or regulatory organizations.
• Experience providing support services under documented Service Level Agreements (SLAs), including emergency response, incident management, and production support.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Object Store, Fabric, and WebADE.
• Experience supporting applications integrated with mapping technologies, financial systems, or external partner systems.
• Experience supporting data extraction, transform and loading activities.

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About Affinity:

Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

For more information on Affinity, please visit www.affinity-group.ca