Senior DevOps Engineer – Secure, Scalable Platforms (NV1)

Powerdatagroup; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Powerdatagroup in Canberra, Australia seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to enable secure, scalable platforms for national security systems. You will lead DevOps practices, build CI/CD pipelines, and drive automation across teams in a high‑assurance environment.

The role requires 5+ years of senior DevOps experience, strong IaC and CI/CD expertise, and the ability to operate in defence or national security contexts with NV1 clearance. Expect up to 40 hours weekly and a hands‑on leadership stance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior DevOps experience delivering CI/CD solutions in complex environments.
• Proven ability to operate in high-assurance / regulated environments.
• Experience contributing to availability management, resilience, and disaster recovery practices.
• Strong background in DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and secure software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption and maturity of DevOps practices, tooling, and platforms across ASD environments.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines for applications, infrastructure, and databases.
• Implement and maintain observability capabilities including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate release engineering and availability risks during planning and delivery.
• Improve developer productivity, release frequency, and operational outcomes through automation.
• Support secure build, integration, and deployment pipelines aligned to Defence security requirements.
• Plan, automate, test, and deploy database changes using controlled pipeline processes.
• Identify and implement process and tooling improvements across DevOps workflows.
• Provide senior technical guidance on integration, build, and deployment practices.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and recovery procedures.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Security

Release management

Disaster recovery

Stakeholder comms

Defence environment

Education

Degree in CS / IT or equivalent

Job description

Powerdatagroup in Canberra, Australia seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to enable secure, scalable platforms for national security systems. You will lead DevOps practices, build CI/CD pipelines, and drive automation across teams in a high‑assurance environment.

The role requires 5+ years of senior DevOps experience, strong IaC and CI/CD expertise, and the ability to operate in defence or national security contexts with NV1 clearance. Expect up to 40 hours weekly and a hands‑on leadership stance.