Job Satisfaction at Queensland Government

Customer engagement, material preparation, research is varied and engaging. Some limits to long-term thinking and being blocked by decisions out of your control

Varies across teams as an IT grad within the graduate program. Worked as a graduate business analyst, cybersafety officer.

As a business analyst in the health system, we are often providing solutions to project business problems. Day-to-day could involve, but not limited to, responding to RFIs, working on artefacts (documentation) for the customer, meetings/workshops to elicit requirements, internal meetings to discuss direction moving forward, detail design activities, setting up meetings, minute documentation, process flow documentation.

Engaging with different stakeholders, documenting requirements and processes, attending many meetings,

Cyber security graduate

System administration, monitoring queues, answering client requests for information and assistance.

The work I have completed is not what I imagined I'd be doing, but that isn't in a negative sense. I usually work on collating information and presenting it in a way that everyone will understand, alongside assisting the team in any other work they might need help with.

So far, I've completed tasks related to Queensland Health's networking equipment. I haven't been assigned to any projects yet.

Doing jobs in the queue.

Data analysis and reporting/discussing results. Lots of programming related to data visualisation and analysis.

Working in Scrum Team. Data Migration. Meeting with stakeholders.

I do a lot of BAU, which suites me well.

Tasks I complete are varied. There are some routine processes and tasks I need to complete but the majority of my work revolves around system defects and investigating issues.

Check all vulnerabilities to the system. Help customers with enquires. Check software is running smoothly. Check firewalls are keeping the "bad people" out.

I triage, investigate, and remediate cyber security incidents as a member of the incident response team. I also perform proactive security such a threat hunting and creating new alerts and detections.