ABOUT PLEXSYS
At PLEXSYS, our teams design, build and deliver Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) innovation and training solutions to customers around the world. With over 200 employees in nine states and four foreign countries, we contribute our success to enabling better training…everyday…across the globe.
As an employee of PLEXSYS, you’ll find a culture that empowers you to achieve your professional objectives, give your personal best, and work with other highly passionate individuals. Our core values of integrity, excellence, teamwork and agility drive our daily decisions, identify our focus areas, and inspire our organizational culture
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The IT Systems Engineer supports our customers with IT system support, design and provide technical advice to Operational personnel. Responsibilities include coordination with stakeholders to ensure operational requirements and technical requirements are met. This person will work to provide effective solutions to the customer identifying solutions using the System Engineering principles to manage the lifecycle development of projects including completing integration work as required, and work with external customers to gather use cases.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the design, development, and maintenance of training IT systems both from a simulation and system perspective.
- Prepare and deliver quality written guidance, briefings, for system architecture.
- Distil requirements to provide functional needs of architecture.
- Identify assisting products to achieve system goals.
- Planning and integrating products to achieve the desired system architecture.
- Development and implementing V&V procedures for solutions.
- Support testing and integration events for PLEXSYS-designed systems and products
- Work with customers to capture use cases.
- Produce various technical documents to support system design and testing.
- Be able to manage diverse and dynamic daily work schedules.
- Support LVC exercises, demonstrations, and training events
- Support the development and maintenance of databases, scenarios, and product use cases.
- Assist in the development, maintenance, and update of internal training products.
- Maintain a satisfactory level of understanding of PLEXSYS products and operational use cases as defined by the Systems Engineering Manager
- Apply systems engineering practices with experience across the lifecycle of complex engineering systems through concept development, design, integration, test, sustainment, and disposal.
- Integrating components, sub-systems, and systems.
- Conduct test and evaluation activities including establishing test strategies, and developing test plans, procedures, and reports.
- Undertaking system modelling and developing system architectures using digital tools.
- Provide assistance and feedback to security practices and system documentation implanted at external sites.
System Administration
- Assessing the stability, security, and scalability of installed operating systems including Windows, Linux and Virtualisation software.
- Installing or upgrading systems and servers.
- Providing technical support to RAAF personnel and back-end system users.
- Troubleshooting system and server errors.
- Review system error logs and user-reported errors.
- Managing user access.
- Maintaining server architecture security and creating system backups
- Configuring networks to suit system needs.
- Manage multiple systems across a Wide Area Network.
System Engineering
- Provide design documentation for all aspects on new systems or upgrades.
- Implementation of upgrades.
- Documenting running system procedures.
- Complete V&V for systems.
- Competence with all aspects of IT Systems.
- Competence with network WAN networks.
Network Engineering
- Configure and install various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls).
- Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hotfixes, and security configurations.
- Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability.
- Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
- Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval, and success of changes made to the network infrastructure.
- Select and implement security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the Defence ISM.
- Manage multiple systems across a Wide Area Network.
Requirements
- Display working knowledge of specifications and requirement documentation during system development.
- Demonstrate understanding of gathering use cases.
- Demonstrate work history and knowledge of Network and IT Systems Engineering and design.
- Independently perform a range of design, development, analysis, or review tasks under generally established project deadlines.
- Ability to synthesize high-level requirements to the low-level system and design specifications.
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues within multiple systems.
- Develop, maintains, and produce technical documentation and system/subsystem specifications.
- Ability to travel both domestically.
- Ability to work flexible working hours as required.
- Security Clearance: NV1 or above
DESIRABLE
- Experience developing military training systems
- Experience with simulation software
- Experience with Distributed simulation exercises
- Proficiency with all PLEXSYS software
