Senior DevOps Lead — AI-Driven Cloud & Automation (Hybrid)

Employers Mutual Management Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Fitness Passport

Discounts with retailers

Corporate wellbeing program

Learning and development

Employee assistance program

Company-wide celebration events

Annual incentive scheme

Job summary

EML is expanding its Technology team in Sydney and inviting applications for a DevOps Lead. The role focuses on leading a DevOps team, shaping engineering standards and coaching, with responsibility for fast, secure releases across cloud and on-premise environments.

You will design and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, manage Kubernetes environments, and strengthen monitoring and incident response. Attention to security and collaboration with AI/infrastructure teams are key.

Qualifications

• Full Australian working rights without restriction.
• 7+ years IT experience, including 5 years in DevOps, site reliability engineering or cloud infrastructure, and 3 years leading, supervising or mentoring a technical team.
• Strong hands-on expertise across AWS and Azure hybrid environments, Terraform, Ansible, Linux and scripting, with experience managing containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools, applying GitOps and progressive delivery practices, and supporting microservices, serverless computing and APIs.
• A security-focused approach, with experience applying cloud security frameworks, managing risk and disaster recovery, and holding your team accountable for secure, reliable delivery.
• Strong communication, troubleshooting and prioritisation skills, with the ability to coach others, engage senior stakeholders and clearly document technical solutions.
• Basic AI or LLM knowledge is expected, ideally with practical application in pipelines or operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the DevOps team, setting engineering standards, prioritising work and building capability through coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automation to support fast, reliable and secure software releases across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Design and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, improving scalability, resilience and cost efficiency across AWS, Azure and VMware.
• Manage Kubernetes environments and containerised applications, ensuring availability, security and effective disaster recovery.
• Strengthen monitoring, observability and incident response to proactively identify issues, resolve problems and improve system performance.
• Partner with AI development, infrastructure and security teams to improve developer tools, embed security into delivery workflows and meet APRA CPS 234 and ISO 27001 requirements.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Scripting

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitOps

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

EML is expanding its Technology team in Sydney and inviting applications for a DevOps Lead. The role focuses on leading a DevOps team, shaping engineering standards and coaching, with responsibility for fast, secure releases across cloud and on-premise environments.

You will design and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, manage Kubernetes environments, and strengthen monitoring and incident response. Attention to security and collaboration with AI/infrastructure teams are key.