Senior DevOps Lead — Enterprise CI/CD & Platform Reliability

Newcastle; Newcastle; Hybrid; AUD 121,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remuneration AUD 120,677–140,791 + %33

35 hour week

17% superannuation

Flexible working arrangements

Wellbeing programs

Annual leave & parental leave

Job summary

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

You will mentor a small team of developers and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant technology services. You will champion CI/CD, observability and infrastructure-as-code while guiding strategic improvements and ensuring

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience developing on enterprise platforms with complex upstream and downstream dependencies
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capability, including coordinating multiple stakeholders and managing a team of developers
• Significant hands-on experience applying DevOps practices, including automation, observability, alerting, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management and deployment tooling
• Strong ability to identify, troubleshoot and resolve complex scalability and performance issues, with solid ITSM experience (incident, problem, change, release and service-level management)
• Demonstrated experience implementing information security, risk management and compliance controls within enterprise technology environments
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and build relationships across IT teams and vendors
• Demonstrated knowledge of workplace obligations and experience cultivating a safe, healthy, equitable workplace

Responsibilities

• Develop and provision software and infrastructure across enterprise platforms, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable and secure
• 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 advice, guidance and training to DTS and broader 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 pipelines

Automation

Observability

Infrastructure as code

Security practices

Team mentoring

Cloud AWS

Tools

ServiceNow

Dynamics 365

Okta

SailPoint

GitHub

AWS

Microsoft Fabric

MuleSoft

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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

You will mentor a small team of developers and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant technology services. You will champion CI/CD, observability and infrastructure-as-code while guiding strategic improvements and ensuring