Job descriptions · fictional employers
Eight graduate roles
Written as a real Australian graduate ad would be, for interview practice. Every employer and vacancy here is invented.
Software Developer
Ships features end to end on a customer-facing web platform.
DevOps / Platform Engineer
Builds and runs the infrastructure other engineers deploy onto.
AI / ML Engineer
Builds language-model features that have to work on real, messy inputs.
Data Engineer / Analyst
Turns raw operational data into numbers the business will actually act on.
Cyber Security Analyst
Works the alert queue that decides whether an intrusion is caught in an hour or a month.
Business Analyst
Turns what the business says it wants into something a delivery team can actually build.
IT Support / Systems Administrator
The first person anyone calls, and the most common way into infrastructure work.
QA / Test Engineer
Finds the defect before a customer does, and can prove it in a way a developer can act on.