DevOps Engineer - Data Migration

NSW Health Pathology; Sydney; On-site; AUD 138,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Additional leave days

Learning & development

Fitness & wellbeing

Job summary

NSW Health Pathology is seeking a DevOps Engineer at Health Manager Level 3 to drive secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions across cloud platforms. You will lead data migration initiatives and collaborate with clinicians, scientists and business professionals to improve health outcomes.

Join Australia's largest public pathology service and benefit from professional growth opportunities, flexible benefits, and a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with web, server, database, and integration technologies.
• Proven data migration planning and execution.
• Ability to lead or work within vendor-based teams on CI/CD and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clinicians and business teams to apply new technologies to health outcomes.
• Lead data migration initiatives with minimal business disruption.
• Support CI/CD and deployment automation across cloud platforms.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Data migration

CI/CD

Power Platform

Tools

Azure

AWS

Terraform

Elasticsearch

Splunk

Power Platform

Job description

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time up until June 2028 with potential for ongoing employment

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3

Remuneration: $137,525.00 - $156,231.00 per annum + Superannuation

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ696352

Location: Newcastle or Chatswood

Applications Close: 5 October 2026 - 11:59pm

About the opportunity

Build the future of digital healthcare and help drive innovation across one of Australia's largest pathology networks. NSW Health Pathology is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a team at the forefront of delivering secure, scalable and reliable technology solutions that support critical health services. In this exciting role, you'll lead and support complex data migration initiatives, helping ensure the accuracy, integrity and seamless transition of data while minimising disruption to business operations and patient-focused services.

Working across cloud platforms, integration technologies and modern automation tools, you'll collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to develop streamlined deployment processes and enhance DevOps capabilities across the organisation. If you're passionate about technology, enjoy solving complex challenges and want to contribute to meaningful projects that have a direct impact on healthcare delivery, this is an exceptional opportunity to grow your career in a collaborative, innovative and purpose-driven environment.

What you’ll be doing

To collaborate with clinicians, scientists and business professionals to drive the sustainable and innovative application of new technologies in order to improve people's health outcomes.

What we can offer you

Financial Benefits - Generous salary packaging options and other fringe benefits

Work-life Balance - Up to 12 additional days off per year in addition to Annual Leave (for full-time employees)

Professional Growth - Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning

Health & Wellbeing - Fitness Passport gym discounts and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and families.

Interested in joining Australia's largest public pathology service?

• Demonstrated experience working across a range of web, server, database, mobile and integration languages and technologies, preferably Angular, MuleSoft, .Net, NodeJS, Java and the Microsoft Power Platform
• Demonstrated experience in planning and executing data migration activities, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and minimal business disruption.
• Hands‑on experience with data migration, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, and post‑migration quality assurance.
• 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 such as or similar to;

• 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 Automation

Anywhere, the Microsoft Power Platform and document infrastructure like Adobe Sign and Document Core Pack

• Log management and analysis systems such as Elasticsearch and Spunk
• Database platforms such as SQL Server, MongoDb, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB.
• Demonstrated ability to craft and tune complex SQL and query statements.
• Ability to be on call out of hours if issues under DevOps team are identified and require urgent resolution.

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Information for applicants

• NSW Health Pathology is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We value, and welcome all suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, background, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.

NSW Health Pathology is committed to providing accessibility and reasonable accommodations and ensuring our recruitment process is flexible, inclusive, and free from barriers, promoting equal opportunities for all to succeed. Please reach out if you need adjustments.

NSW Health Pathology is committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce in public health. For Aboriginal candidates, support is available through the Stepping Up website

You must have valid working rights in Australia for the duration of the appointment to be eligible to apply.

All workers must meet NSW Health’s vaccination and screening requirements before starting employment. See PD2026_004 for more detail. The preferred candidate may be required to undergo a functional assessment prior to appointment.

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