Civilian jobs in Australia after military software development work

984 open roles at 347 companies in Australia fit the civilian work of military software developers: Backend (405), DevOps (349), Data Science (168) and QA (62). The roles were matched by hand to the work these specialties do in most armed forces, whatever a given army calls the trade.

Roles matched by handRebuilt 28 Oct 2026
open roles in Australia
984
companies
347
civilian role areas
4
median stated pay (backend)
$87k

Civilian roles for military software development

Match: the share of the specialty's civilian work in each area
Role areaMatchOpen rolesMedian pay
Backend50%405$87k
DevOps20%349$95k
Data Science15%168$91k
QA15%62

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Lockheed Martin

lockheedmartin.com
lockheedmartin.com · HQ: Bethesda, United States · Military Satellites · Aerospace Manufacturing · Missiles · Combat Aircraft · Defense Manufacturing · 5000+ employees · Est. 1995 · NYSE: LMT · Trust A · Hiring 2882, 178 new
HQ: Bethesda, United States · Military Satellites · Aerospace Manufacturing · Missiles · Combat Aircraft · Defense Manufacturing · 5000+ employees · Est. 1995 · NYSE: LMT · Trust A · Hiring 2882, 178 new
Lockheed Martin is the largest defence contractor in the world, formed in 1995 by merging Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Its single most important programme is the F-35 Lightning II, the most expensive weapons system ever built, alongside the F-16, the C-130 transport and classified work at the Skunk Works advanced development unit. The company also dominates missile defence with THAAD and PAC-3 interceptors, supplies HIMARS and Javelin systems, owns the helicopter maker Sikorsky, and builds the Orion crew capsule and military satellites through its space division.
Evan Scott · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
James Taiclet · Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Marillyn Hewson · former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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Verified live · 12 min ago 1 month ago Fading · 37%

Ground Systems & Infrastructure Engineer

In office (Adelaide, Melbourne, Australia) · Citizenship or vetting required
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Verified live · 12 min ago 1 month ago Fading · 27%

Software DevOps Developer

Junior · 2+ years exp · Hybrid (Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Williamtown, Australia) · PhD · Citizenship or vetting required · Junior
Packer
VMWare
SOAP
GitLab
Ansible
Terraform
Rest API
Docker
Linux
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Management
SharePoint
Jira
SpaceTech
MBSE
+6
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Roles that fit military software development

symssg.com · HQ: Ashburn, United States · EHR & Clinical Software · Digital Government · 51-200 employees · Hiring 92, 92 new
HQ: Ashburn, United States · EHR & Clinical Software · Digital Government · 51-200 employees · Hiring 92, 92 new
Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG) is a technology consulting and federal IT services enterprise specializing in healthcare IT, systems engineering, and digital transformation for defense and civilian government agencies. Headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, United States, the SBA-verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) delivers mission-critical technical and professional services to public sector clients, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. Through enterprise software development, health informatics, IT infrastructure modernization, and administrative program management, the organization enables federal institutions and military commands to optimize operational workflows, secure legacy environments, and streamline agency service delivery.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 99%

Automated Test Engineer (MUMPS) - Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG)

$85k – $117k per year · Staff+ · 10+ years exp · Melbourne · Remote (United States, Australia) · Bachelor's Degree · Public Trust · Staff
SQL
DevOps
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
Azure
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
QA
TestRail
MedTech
HL7
FHIR
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HCLTech

hcltech.com
hcltech.com · HQ: Noida, India · Science & Engineering · Professional Services · Cybersecurity · Systems Integrators · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · 5000+ employees · Est. 1976 · Hiring 3879, 857 new
HQ: Noida, India · Science & Engineering · Professional Services · Cybersecurity · Systems Integrators · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · 5000+ employees · Est. 1976 · Hiring 3879, 857 new
HCLTech is a major Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Spun off from the original HCL Group in 1991, it ranks as one of India's largest technology companies alongside firms like TCS, Infosys, and Wipro.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 4 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 90%

Senior Azure Logic Apps Technical Specialist

≈ $62k – $173k per year (Estimated) · Senior · In office (Sydney, Australia) · Senior
Azure
Management
Agile
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 6 days ago Hiring now · 97%

Technical Specialist - Java, Microservices, React.js

≈ $56k – $145k per year (Estimated) · In office (Melbourne, Australia)
Java
JavaScript
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
Management
Agile
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Monks

monks.com
monks.com · HQ: London, United Kingdom · Digital Marketing · Branding · Creative Agencies · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2001 · Trust B · Hiring 315, 26 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom · Digital Marketing · Branding · Creative Agencies · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2001 · Trust B · Hiring 315, 26 new
Monks is a global digital-first marketing, creative production, and technology services enterprise that integrates data, digital media, and content execution. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, the organization operates as the operating brand of S4Capital plc with a presence across dozens of international markets. Through AI-driven automation, proprietary workflow platforms, and integrated media strategies, the agency empowers global brands to modernize marketing operations and maximize campaign performance.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 3 hours ago 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

Data Specialist

≈ $66k – $136k per year (Estimated) · In office (Melbourne, Sydney, Australia)
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
AI/ML
NLP
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Analytics
Looker
Tableau
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Volga Partners

volgapartners.com
volgapartners.com · HQ: Kirkland, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · AI Training Data & Annotation · Trust A · Hiring 54, 3 new
HQ: Kirkland, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · AI Training Data & Annotation · Trust A · Hiring 54, 3 new
Volga Partners is an enterprise AI services company based in Kirkland, Washington, that supplies AI training data, data annotation, model evaluation and reinforcement learning environments and AI engineering on its own platform. It covers text, speech, image and video data in more than 150 languages and dialects and draws on a global network of freelance linguists and subject matter experts, with clients that include Fortune 500 and technology companies. Most openings are freelance, task-based language data quality reviewers, transcriptionists and conversational audio data collectors for European and Asian languages, plus finance AI evaluators and AI and backend engineers in Pakistan.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 90%

User Experience Study Tester - OKX Crypto Exchange (AUS)

$40k – $50k per year · Remote (Australia, SGT hours) · Contractor
Machine Learning
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commbank.com.au · HQ: Sydney, Australia · Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms · Mortgage Lending & Brokers · Commercial & Retail Banks · 5000+ employees · Est. 1911 · Trust A · Hiring 156, 63 new
HQ: Sydney, Australia · Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms · Mortgage Lending & Brokers · Commercial & Retail Banks · 5000+ employees · Est. 1911 · Trust A · Hiring 156, 63 new
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the country's largest bank, established by federal legislation in 1911 as a government-owned institution and fully privatised by 1996. It serves roughly one in three Australians across retail deposits, home lending, business banking and institutional markets, and holds the largest share of the domestic mortgage market. The bank has invested unusually heavily in technology for its size, rebuilding its core systems and pushing the CommBank application into a broader financial and lifestyle platform, and it runs the venture arm x15ventures to build and buy adjacent digital businesses.
Alan Docherty · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Paul O'Malley · Chairman · decision-maker
Matt Comyn · Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 90%

Data Scientist - Credit Risk Models

≈ $74k – $152k per year (Estimated) · In office (Sydney, Melbourne, Australia) · Full-Time
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Time Series
Machine Learning
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 90%

Data Scientist

≈ $73k – $148k per year (Estimated) · In office (Sydney, Australia) · Full-Time
TypeScript
SQL
Python
Python
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
XGBoost
Fine-tuning
Langfuse
Synthetic Data
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI Agents SDK
LLM Guardrails
LangChain
Claude Code
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
GitHub
CI/CD
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Westpac

westpac.com.au
westpac.com.au · HQ: Sydney, Australia · Business & SME Lending · Commercial & Retail Banks · 501-1000 employees · Est. 1817 · Trust A · Hiring 79, 30 new
HQ: Sydney, Australia · Business & SME Lending · Commercial & Retail Banks · 501-1000 employees · Est. 1817 · Trust A · Hiring 79, 30 new
Westpac is an Australian banking and financial services group headquartered in Sydney, providing personal, business, corporate and institutional banking, home loans, cards, wealth and payment services across Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales, it is the oldest bank in Australia, is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and also operates the St.George, Bank of Melbourne and BankSA brands. It hires software, mainframe, network and data engineers, information security consultants, business analysts, controls and monitoring managers, fraud and financial crime specialists, and transactional banking sales leaders.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 90%

Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift

≈ $83k – $229k per year (Estimated) · Lead · Hybrid (Kogarah, Australia) · Principal
OpenShift
GitOps
ArgoCD
FinOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Cybersecurity
HashiCorp Vault
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 3 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Senior Service Engineer - Observability

≈ $68k – $189k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Kogarah, Australia) · Senior
ElasticSearch
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Kibana
OpenTelemetry
AppDynamics
SLI/SLO/SLA
CI/CD
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How is military software development matched to civilian roles?

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