Geoscience Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Cultures, and to elders past and present. About us Geoscience Australia is Australia's pre-eminent public sector geoscience organisation. We are the nation's trusted advisor on the geology and geography of Australia. We apply science and technology to describe and understand the Earth for the benefit of Australia. We apply our diverse professional expertise, our deep and trusted knowledge, our national-scale Earth observation infrastructure and our strong partnerships, to the opportunities and challenges that face our nation. The opportunity The Australian Government has announced it will partner with the United States in its flagship Landsat Next Earth satellite program. Underpinned by new investment of $207.4m over the next 4 years, Australia will become the first country to join the Landsat 2030 International Partnerships Initiative. Australia's contributions to this partnership will be delivered by Geoscience Australia and will involve investment in new science to take full advantage of Landsat Next's advanced capabilities, including an up to nine-fold increase in spatial resolution for key bands, more than twice the number of spectral bands, and increased frequency of data collection. Geoscience Australia will also deliver significant improvements to our satellite ground station in Alice Springs, our data processing and distribution, quality assurance and integrity monitoring, and Digital Earth and Digital Atlas capabilities. Our team The Satellite Land Imaging Collection Branch (SLIC) will be at the forefront of Australia's delivery of the Landsat Next partnership. A small but rapidly growing branch, SLIC comprises experts from a range of disciplines including data science, engineering, programmatics, Earth observations and remote sensing science, quality and technical assurance. SLIC will deliver the enhanced satellite ground segment including an upgraded Alice Springs ground station, expanded satellite data processing and delivery architectures, new quality and integrity monitoring systems and science, supported by robust partner and stakeholder engagement, integrated systems engineering, governance, and program management. The key duties of the position include This role is for an experienced software engineer to contribute their expertise to the development and testing of an innovative Earth Observation data processing workflow. The workflow will be deployed on cloud infrastructure for on-going processing of large quantities of satellite imagery data. The role will report to the Assistant Director, Satellite Data Processing Systems within the Satellite Land Imaging Collection Branch. In this role you will: Work with counterparts within GA and the USGS to develop, test, and maintain data processing workflows to enable large scale Earth observation data processing on cloud infrastructure. Communicate and coordinate activities and technical status with the Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, and other Project team members, as appropriate. Submit, analyze, and manage configuration change requests in accordance with established Configuration Management (CM) processes. Perform code development for assigned tasks; develop and conduct unit testing. Provide technical leadership, including expert code review via timely verbal and written feedback to other team members.