DevOps Engineer

Employment Type: Various

Position Classification: Health Manger Level 3

Remuneration: $127,150.00 - $144,444.00 per annum plus superannuation

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ572578

Location: Negotiable - Sydney or Newcastle

Applications close: 10th June 2025 - 11:59pm

About The Opportunity

Are you a DevOps Engineer who thrives at the intersection of technology, healthcare, and innovation? NSW Health Pathology is seeking forward-thinking professionals to help shape the future of digital health across New South Wales!

We are currently recruiting for both a Permanent Full-Time and a Temporary Full-Time (3-year contract) DevOps Engineer positions, while also establishing an eligibility list for potential future vacancies within NSW Health Pathology.

In this dynamic role, you’ll collaborate with clinicians, scientists, and business leaders to deliver agile, impactful solutions that improve real-world patient outcomes. From designing and implementing complex business systems to enhancing our DevOps capabilities, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our technology solutions are sustainable, secure, and cutting-edge.

We operate more than 60 laboratories and around 200 collection centres across NSW and conduct over 60 million tests per annum. Our network of pathologists are supported by scientists, technicians and support staff who quickly and accurately assess samples so clinical teams can make the best possible treatment decisions for patients. We encourage our staff to be involved in research and innovation opportunities to help create safer, healthier communities. Our Forensic & Analytical Science Service provides independent, objective analysis to the NSW criminal and coronial justice systems.

Being part of NSW Health Pathology means you’re helping create better health and justice systems every day.

What We Can Offer You

• Accrued Days Off in addition to Annual Leave
• Generous salary packaging options and other fringe benefits
• Corporate wellbeing programs, including the Fitness Passport
• Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning
  
  

What You'll Be Doing

Collaborate with clinicians, scientists, and business professionals to drive the sustainable and innovative application of new technologies that improve health outcomes, including but not limited to, designing, implementing, and maintaining DevOps pipelines to support continuous integration, delivery, and deployment; automating infrastructure and application provisioning using modern tools and best practices; and working closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver scalable, high-performance systems. This role also focuses on enhancing system reliability, monitoring, and incident response processes, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

Interested in joining Australia’s largest public pathology service? Apply now by addressing the following questions:

• Demonstrated experience working across a range of web, server, database, mobile and integration languages and technologies, preferably Angular, NodeJS, Java and the Microsoft Power Platform.
• Previous experience working in a team environment across varying geographical locations operating continuous integration platforms and techniques including test, build and deployment automation.
• Ability to work within or lead a vendor or contractor based team and drive effort towards achieving business outcomes and alignment with NSW Health Pathology reference architectures.
• Experience working with activities like; - Deploying cloud products and vendors such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services - Infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform - Low Code and robotic process automation technologies such as the Microsoft Power Platform - Database platforms such as SQL Server, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB - Docker and container orchestration technology like Kubernetes and Helm.
• Experience operating business analytics tools such as MS Excel and PowerBI.
• Ability to craft and tune complex SQL and NoSQL query statements.
• Ability to be on call out of hours if issues under DevOps team are identified and require urgent resolution.
• Experience with monitoring and diagnostic tools and frameworks such as OpenTelemetry, Microsoft AppInsights or Amazon X-Ray.
  
  

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For role related queries or questions contact Daniel Ormerod on [email protected]

New to NSW Health Pathology?

The preferred candidate may be required to undergo a functional assessment prior to appointment.

Talent Pool

If the selection panel identifies more than one suitable candidate for the role, an eligibility list will be created for future temporary and casual vacancies.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

NSW Health Pathology is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We seek to recruit from diverse applicants and create teams with skills, perspectives and experiences that complement each other at work. We welcome suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, ethnicity, socio-cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.