LIMS System Administrator – Federal Lab

CareCone Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CareCone Group is seeking a LIMS System Administrator for a Federal client in ACT/NSW/VIC. The role is a 12-month contract with extensions, requiring strong LIMS, database, and scripting skills to support laboratory operations.

Responsibilities include managing LIMS systems (Sample Manager or similar), ensuring availability, reliability, and disaster recovery readiness, and collaborating with business stakeholders to resolve complex issues.

Qualifications

• Practical knowledge of, or experience in LIMS administration such as Sample Manager or a similar system relevant to the functioning of a commercial analytical/scientific laboratory.

Responsibilities

• Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability.
• Contributes to the availability management process and its operation.
• Performs defined availability management tasks.
• Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels.
• Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures.
• Conducts testing of recovery procedures.
• Investigates problems in systems, processes and services.
• Assists with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors simple programs/scripts.
• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Reviews own work.

Skills

LIMS administration

SQL

C#.Net

VB

Java

HTML

Database administration

Disaster recovery

Problem solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Sample Manager

SQL tooling

Job description

CareCone Group is seeking a LIMS System Administrator for a Federal client in ACT/NSW/VIC. The role is a 12-month contract with extensions, requiring strong LIMS, database, and scripting skills to support laboratory operations.

Responsibilities include managing LIMS systems (Sample Manager or similar), ensuring availability, reliability, and disaster recovery readiness, and collaborating with business stakeholders to resolve complex issues.