Principal DevOps Engineer
- Full-Time 5 month Temporary Opportunity (Commencing February 2025)
- Hybrid working conditions, with home office location at Parramatta
- Salary starting from $145,378 + superannuation
About the team
As Principal
DevOps Engineer, you will lead the end-to-end development of product and
platform services for the Better Revenue Outcomes (BRO) project through
collaborative build, release, maintenance, and enhancements of product features.
You will also
mentor other DevOps engineers on the BRO project and be the point of contact to
management and other teams; and work in accordance with the Revenue Digital
DevOps team practices.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the BRO project DevOps Engineering team in Revenue Digital to drive automation, ensure software standards, service modularity, testing standards, and deployment/management of cloud native services adhere to Revenue Digital best practice.
- Lead the effort to solve complex technical problems and produce the highest quality solutions for the BRO project.
- Lead
by example and demonstrate a high degree
of self-awareness, and awareness of your impact
on people and a sharp understanding of people dynamics
- Actively contribute to and guide innovation in DevOps practices and incorporate agile delivery approaches and technologies that assist with the development and delivery of high-quality software in accordance with Revenue Digital DevOps best practice.
- Carry out and deliver efficient/repeatable platform engineering and application maintenance tasks through the orchestration and strategy-building tools to ensure optimal performance of the BRO services.
- Deliver technical consulting and subject matter expertise to the BRO project, including pre-project to ensure risks, interdependencies and exceptions are identified, mitigated, or escalated and solutions are formulated in alignment with ICT strategy and architecture
- Deliver high level options, conceptual approaches, technical recommendations and estimates to support the transition of system designs into operation
- Lead development and maintenance of project support strategies, operational standard procedures, performance strategies, robust configuration practices and automated processes.
To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:
- Proven experience leading DevOps projects and interacting with IT and Business stakeholders
- Strong communication and facilitation skills to contribute to workshops, mentor other DevOps engineers and cross-skill colleagues
- Strong ability to collaborate within the DevOps team and broader stakeholders across Revenue, Department of Customer Service and other stakeholders
- Extensive experience with cloud native design patterns, AWS is essential
- Proven experience of development and test tools with CI/CD pipelines with strong Infrastructure as code development experience, Terraform preferred.
- In-depth experience with logging and monitoring at large scale
- Proven ability to lead and execute implementation, documentation, integration, and support operations of a variety of REST API projects
- Extensive experience with software versioning systems such as Git, with GitLab preferred
- Extensive experience with modern operations, network troubleshooting and security implementation
- Ability to write effective technical documentation such as tutorials and design specifications
- Proven experience to work quickly while maintaining strong attention to detail and accuracy
What
we need from you:
An
up-to-date CV and a brief cover letter outlining how your skills and experience
are aligned to the role.
About
Revenue NSW
As NSW’s
principal revenue management agency, Revenue NSW fairly administers state
taxation and revenue for, and on behalf of, the people of NSW. Our revenue
management helps to deliver government priorities for a fair, safe, and
prosperous NSW. We offer many online services that make it easy to apply for a
grant, pay a fine, fee, tax, duty, or levy and lodge a return. More information
on us can be found on our website https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/.
Revenue
NSW Digital is responsible for the delivery of state-of-the-art digital
experiences focused on simplifying and improving the interactions of 20,000+
businesses and two million+ individuals with the NSW Government.
Why work
for us?
There are
lots of reasons why a role with us is rewarding - working with us gives you:
- The opportunity for meaningful work that matters to all of us in NSW
- Hybrid working, compressed hours and generous leave conditions, so you can make time for what counts
- Much more than just a job, you can build a career here
- Unmatched opportunities for growth and development
We
can’t wait to meet you! If this role sounds like you, you can apply by
clicking the button ‘Apply Online’ below - it’s a simple online process.
If you
don’t meet all the criteria, but still believe you could succeed in this role,
please still apply - we’d love to hear from you!
Further Information
Salary Grade 11/12, with the base salary for this role starting
at $145,378 base plus superannuation
Click Here to access the Role Description. For enquiries relating to recruitment please
contact Bec Conquest via Bec.conquest@customerservice.nsw.gov.au.
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Closing Date: Wednesday 8th January 2025 @ 10am
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