Senior DevOps Engineer — Enterprise Platform Leader (NSW)

University of Newcastle; Newcastle; On-site; AUD 121,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 hour week

17% super

Salary packaging

Flexible working arrangements

Holiday leave

Wellbeing programs

Discounts in private health insurance

Job summary

The University of Newcastle is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Digital Technology Solutions team at Callaghan Campus. You will lead a small team, drive platform reliability and scale across ServiceNow, Dynamics 365, AWS and more.

You’ll mentor developers, implement AI-assisted development, CI/CD pipelines, IaC and observability, and collaborate with stakeholders across IT and vendors to deliver secure, high-performance enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience developing on enterprise platforms with complex upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Experience leading a small development team.
• Hands-on DevOps including automation, observability, IaC, deployment tooling.
• Ability to mentor and train developers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience implementing information security and compliance controls.

Responsibilities

• Develop and provision software and infrastructure across enterprise platforms.
• Lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of AI-assisted development, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Investigate, plan and design systems requirements to meet stakeholder needs, then coordinate implementation end-to-end.
• Provide expert guidance to DTS and university stakeholders on technology platforms and systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex scalability and performance issues across multi-system environments with upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Oversee code and build quality, review deployments, and enforce development standards.
• Ensure platform health through regular maintenance, upgrades, secure coding practices and alignment with University security policies.
• Mentor and lead a small team of developers, supporting their growth through development plans, performance discussions and hands-on coaching.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, managed-service partners and vendors.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Infrastructure as code

Incident/Problem/Change management

Security practices

Mentoring

Tools

ServiceNow

Dynamics 365

Okta

SailPoint

GitHub

AWS

Microsoft Fabric

MuleSoft

Jira/Confluence

Job description

The University of Newcastle is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Digital Technology Solutions team at Callaghan Campus. You will lead a small team, drive platform reliability and scale across ServiceNow, Dynamics 365, AWS and more.

You’ll mentor developers, implement AI-assisted development, CI/CD pipelines, IaC and observability, and collaborate with stakeholders across IT and vendors to deliver secure, high-performance enterprise platforms.