Senior DevOps Engineer

DFP Recruitment; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The EL1 DevOps Engineer (Labour Hire) role is with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) via DFP Recruitment in Australia. You will design, implement and support the Agency’s Cloud & Data Infrastructure, with responsibilities spanning deployment, collaboration with CRM teams and agile project leadership to deliver key initiatives across Salesforce and MuleSoft environments.

The position requires extensive AWS experience, strong DevOps practices, IaC with Terraform, and container

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on AWS infrastructure experience and ability to design, implement and manage scalable cloud solutions.
• Strong experience building and deploying DevOps practices and CD pipelines with GitLab, Artifactory and Jira.
• Expertise in IaC tools such as Terraform for automating infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Proficiency with Git with agile development to support collaborative, iterative development.
• Ability to write/maintain code in Python, JavaScript, and Golang.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization, deployment and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design, development, deployment and support of the Agency’s Cloud & Data Infrastructure.
• Prioritising and managing the work queue to ensure timely delivery of key initiatives.
• Ensuring that solutions adhere to integration best practices and are well documented.
• Collaborating with business stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Playing a leadership role in project teams, using an agile development framework.
• Engaging with stakeholders to define project requirements, set priorities, and deliver results.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Python/JavaScript/Go

Git

Agile methodologies

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

GitLab

Artifactory

Terraform

Jira

Job description

The EL1 DevOps Engineer (Labour Hire) will work closely with key business stakeholders, CRM developers and testing teams to enable and support Salesforce and MuleSoft development across the Agency. The role will also manage critical internal and external stakeholder relationships, representing and negotiating on behalf of the NDIA to support delivery outcomes and advance Agency objectives across a range of forums.

A supplier briefing will be held for this role on Tuesday 29 September – meeting details will be posted in the “Q&A” section of the RFQ for invited Sellers only.

Rate

The proposed rate should reflect candidate's skills and experience against the Evaluation Criteria. Candidates that do not demonstrate these criteria will not be assessed. Candidates should be aware that rates may be negotiated further as part of the selection process.

Citizenship

As part of the eligibility and suitability requirement, NDIA seeks Labour Hire Workers who are Australian citizens only. Successful candidates will be required to furnish valid evidence of citizenship during the Pre-engagement Check.

Labour Hire Licence

Applicable for ACT, VIC and QLD: Labour hire licences are required in the state that specified personnel are being contracted.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Design, development, deployment, and support of the Agency’s Cloud & Data Infrastructure.
• Prioritising and managing the work queue to ensure timely delivery of key initiatives.
• Ensuring that all solutions adhere to integration best practices and are well documented.
• Collaborating with business stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Playing a key leadership role in project teams, utilising an agile development framework.
• Engaging with stakeholders to define project requirements, set priorities, and deliver results.

• Role available in all states

(Note: Responsibilities may evolve in line with changing organisational priorities.)

About the team

The Environment and Release Management Directorate’s Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) team is responsible for improving and optimising the delivery pipelines for the Agency’s Core CRM platform, which is underpinned by Salesforce and MuleSoft technologies. The broader Directorate commissions and supports pre-production environments and coordinates and performs production releases. Together, these capabilities play a critical role in enabling efficient development, testing and release workflows, improving delivery velocity and supporting the Agency’s ability to achieve Scheme objectives.

About the organisation

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is an independent statutory agency that is responsible for implementing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which will support a better life for hundreds of thousands of Australians with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers. The NDIA values a positive contemporary attitude to disability.

As a Federal Agency, we work within a legislative and regulatory environment. We adhere to the Australian Public Service Code of Conduct as set out in section 13 of the Public Service Act 1999.

Our work is driven by the Corporate Plan which provides strategic direction to achieve our purpose of making a difference so that people with disability can choose and achieve their goals.

Our values

• We value people – We put participants at the heart of everything we do.
• We grow together – We work together to deliver quality outcomes.
• We aim higher – We are resilient and always have the courage to do better.
• We take care – We own what we do and we do the right thing.

Our values reflect our passion and commitment to building a positive, participant-centred culture.

DFP welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

Criteria

Each candidate must provide a response to each criterion. Each response is limited to 3000 characters.

Essential criteria

• 1.Extensive hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and services, with proven ability to design, implement, and manage scalable cloud solutions.
• 2.Strong experience in building and deploying DevOps practices, tools, and continuous delivery pipelines, including GitLab, Artifactory, and Jira, to streamline development workflows.
• 3.Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform for automating infrastructure provisioning and management
• 4.Proficiency with version control systems like Git, combined with a solid understanding of agile development methodologies to support collaborative, iterative development..
• 5.Ability to write and maintain moderately complex code across multiple programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, and Golang.
• 6.In-depth experience with containerization, cluster deployment, and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring efficient application delivery and management.

Desirable criteria

• 1.Demonstrated experience working with Salesforce, MuleSoft and/or AWS environments, including Kubernetes-based platforms.
• 2.Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault for securing sensitive data and managing secrets across cloud infrastructure.
• 3.Designing and managing intelligent CI/CD automation where AI agents execute discrete, permission-constrained tasks (e.g., auto-remediation, documentation, or testing).
• 4.Demonstrated experience performing or leading GitLab to GitHub migrations within a complex SDLC environment supporting Salesforce, MuleSoft or comparable enterprise technologies.