DevOps Engineer (Data)

About the ARDC

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is Australia’s leading research data infrastructure, funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). We partner with the research community and industry to build leading-edge digital research infrastructure, providing Australian researchers with competitive advantage through data.

At the ARDC, we’re accelerating Australian research and innovation by driving excellence in the creation, analysis and retention of high-quality data assets. We’re committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, fostering an organisational culture that values individual differences and treats all people with respect, dignity and equity.

Our organisational values guide everything we do: Ambition, Focus, Collaboration, Flexibility, Transparency.

The ARDC is looking to recruit a DevOps Engineer (Data). This position can be based in Canberra, Brisbane or Melbourne.

About the Role

As our DevOps Engineer (Data), you will build and maintain the pipelines, search and graph indexes, databases and APIs that keep metadata from many data providers accurate, current and discoverable across ARDC’s national research data products. You will design and implement these components with a degree of autonomy and help shape team practice and standards.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build and maintain pipelines that harvest and ingest metadata from multiple data providers, and monitor them and fix failures.

• Maintain graph databases and search indexes, including reindexing, SQL schema migrations and data migrations between environments.

• Build capabilities to validate, assess and normalise metadata, and report quality issues to product teams and data providers.

• Develop and document APIs and integrations with partner systems and catalogues.

• Contribute to AI-readiness practices for metadata, vocabularies, quality and provenance, and integrate large language models (LLMs) into services when applicable.

To find out more about this role, please visit our website to see the position description: https://ardc.online/3apdc8d7

What We Are Looking For

We want to speak with individuals who have:

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams in a matrix environment.

• Experience working with or in the Australian higher education or research sector, with demonstrated understanding of research infrastructure and the role it plays in enabling research activity.

• Suitable experience and qualifications to meet the requirements outlined in the position description.

Terms of Appointment

This position will be offered on a fixed term appointment through to 30 June 2028.

In return, we offer:

• A competitive remuneration package.

• Flexible working arrangements across our distributed team model.

• Professional development opportunities.

• The chance to work with talented individuals on exciting Australian research infrastructure projects.

Application Process

Applications should address the key selection criteria outlined in the position description and demonstrate your capacity to fulfil the requirements of the role you are applying for. Applications should include a cover letter, CV and response to the Key Selection Criteria (max 2 pages) as a separate document.

Applications close on Friday 13th November 2026

All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, which will include reference checks, verification of qualifications, and confirmation of the right to work in Australia. This role will require a National Police Check and/or Working with Children Check.

For more information or any questions please contact hr@ardc.edu.au

Agencies, please note: we are managing this recruitment directly and are not seeking agency support at this stage.