GIS Terrain Developer

Cleared Recruitment are seeking GIS Terrain Developers to join one of our Defence Clients based in Canberra.

You will be working closely with a large team of simulation specialists to support the development and delivery military exercises, and be responsible for the requirements gathering phases of military exercise design and planning to determine the terrain requirements for each activity including terrain box requirements, fidelity, terrain formats required as well as broader geospatial requirements.

Responsibilities include:

• Conduct analysis of existing terrain sets to determine applicability and derive new build requirements.

• Engage relevant internal and external organisations to obtain applicable source data.

• Be responsible to produce required terrain sets to meet overall exercise test and production requirements.

• Participate in event functional and operational tests as well as ongoing verification/validation testing to validate the terrain sets.

• Be responsible for the managing terrain metadata and storage/archiving.

• Provide advice to exercise staff (technical and exercise plans teams) on the suitability of extant terrain sets to meet exercise training objectives.

Required Skills

• Experience with common Geospatial manipulation tools (ArcGIS, etc.)

• Knowledge of common geospatial terrain formats.

• Exposure to Defence simulation environments and protocols and/or a background as a military geospatial specialist.

• Experience with common simulation terrain production tools (TerraTools, TerraSim) desirable but not essential

• Some knowledge of common military constructive and virtual simulation applications (JSAF, JCATS, etc.) is desirable but not essential

• Minimum NV1 clearance required with an ability to upgrade to NV2. (NV2 preferred)

Even if you are not ready for a move right now but would still like to have a conversation about opportunities in the future, feel free to reach out for a confidential discussion.

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