IAG Defence & National Security (DNS) is part of IAG, a specialist advisory firm supporting complex infrastructure, Defence and national security programs across Australia.
Our DNS team works closely with Commonwealth agencies and industry partners to deliver specialist expertise into nationally significant programs. Our success depends on our ability to identify, engage and mobilise highly specialised talent quickly and effectively. IAG is recognised as Veteran Friendly Employer under the Veteran Employment Program.
Join Geoscience Australia’s Earth Observation (EO) Program and play a key role in supporting nationally significant Earth Observation capability initiatives, including Digital Earth Australia and the Australia–United States Landsat partnership. As a Systems Engineer, you will support the whole-of-life management of EO capability through engineering governance, technical assurance, certification, capability acceptance, asset management, and lifecycle planning. Working closely with cross-functional teams, Government stakeholders, and international partners, you will contribute to capability strategy development, engineering processes and frameworks, integration requirements, and program delivery outcomes that support Australia’s environmental and resource decision-making capabilities.
This role offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative, high-performing environment focused on innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement across complex digital and scientific capability programs. A hybrid working arrangement may be considered for the right candidate.
You are an experienced Infrastructure or Systems Engineer with strong technical, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills, ideally gained within complex Government, scientific, ICT, engineering, or capability delivery environments. You bring a sound understanding of systems engineering principles, engineering governance, technical assurance, lifecycle capability management, and technical certification processes.
You are highly organised, capable of managing competing priorities, and confident working across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholder groups. Your ability to communicate clearly and influence outcomes enables you to build strong working relationships with technical specialists, program teams, executives, and external partners.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:
Baseline Security Clearance eligibility is required.
With offices in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra, we’re a tight-knit team, working across some of Australia’s most critical infrastructure and Defence projects. We come from diverse backgrounds and pride ourselves on our flexible, supportive and collaborative team culture. We can offer great work, great people, great culture, great conditions, and an all-round great time, whilst you go about developing a great career in this space.
As part of IAG, you’ll be joining a team of more than 250 professionals’ working across a range of integrated workstreams in a friendly and approachable environment.
IAG Defence and National Security (DNS) is a multidisciplinary team of Project Management, ICT, Logistics, Engineering and Commercial advisory professionals who primarily provide services to the Defence Sector, Australian Department of Defence and Defence Industry.
Thanks to the diversity of its service offerings, IAG Defence & National Security is uniquely positioned to provide its partners and clients with holistic solutions that address complex cross-subject requirements.
IAG DNS is part of the wider IAG team - Australasia’s most trusted transaction, commercial, strategic advisory, delivery and technical services firm.
IAG has assisted clients to successfully plan, transact and deliver more than $200 billion of projects across Australia and internationally. This combined experience ensures our team of specialist advisors effectively navigate complex governance frameworks, challenging stakeholders, multifaceted technical environments and regulatory intricacies to deliver value for money outcomes.
We bring a flexible, scalable team with unmatched professional diversity – a national pool of approximately 250 advisors with diverse backgrounds in law, commerce, engineering, defence, construction, environmental management and stakeholder engagement.
