Technical Lead
Smart Technology Recruitment Pty Ltd
Job Description
Job Description
\n Technical Lead — Fleet Management & Autonomous Haulage | Brisbane\n
Here’s the puzzle: a real-time platform that’s been running mine sites for decades — trucks, shovels, drills, all coordinated live — now also has to run autonomous trucks, in the same pit as human-driven ones, at sites with high-availability contracts where downtime costs real money.
\nYou can’t take it offline to fix it. You can’t experiment carelessly — these are safety-critical systems with physical consequences. And it’s yours to harden.
\nThis is a hands-on Lead role — you’ll be in the code, in the incident, in the RCA, not just directing traffic from a distance.
What you’d actually be doing:\n- \n
- Personally leading the technical response on customer-blocking defects in a live, decades-old C++/C# codebase — diagnosis, containment, root cause, systemic fix \n
- Running RCAs and FMEAs to find the weak points before they find you, and teaching that methodology to the wider team \n
- Building our client’s support systems from reactive to proactive — new tooling, new processes, real data instrumentation to prove it’s working \n
- Integrating AI into support workflows — genuinely open, high-leverage territory, not a checkbox \n
- Owning technical decisions under pressure, across a broad stack (C++/C#, moving toward Python and Kubernetes) — depth where it counts, breadth to pick up the rest \n
This isn’t a six-month fix. It’s a multi-year, systemic hardening effort on infrastructure running mine sites globally — the kind of problem that rewards someone who actually wants to sit with complexity rather than patch around it. Autonomous trucks are in production now. The stakes are real, and so is the latitude to solve it properly — hands-on, not from the sidelines.
\nBrisbane-based, hybrid (2 days in-office), 9-day fortnight, on-call uplift when you’re on the roster.
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