Senior DevOps Engineer - Contract/Perm

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.

We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of enterprise DevOps practices, cloud automation frameworks, and platform engineering capabilities.

This role plays a critical part in driving automation-first, cloud-native engineering approaches across large-scale ICT environments. You will work across multiple agile delivery teams, partnering with architects, developers, security specialists, and business stakeholders to uplift engineering maturity, improve delivery performance, and ensure secure, reliable, and scalable systems.

You’ll be a key contributor to enterprise transformation initiatives—embedding DevSecOps, reliability engineering, and continuous delivery practices while reducing operational risk and enabling innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation frameworks
• Architect and deliver reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions (Terraform, Ansible, YAML, cloud-native tooling)
• Drive adoption of DevOps, DevSecOps, and automation-first practices across delivery teams
• Implement cloud governance frameworks, including security controls and operational resilience best practices
• Lead observability initiatives (monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting)
• Optimise cloud usage and cost efficiency through FinOps practices and performance tuning
• Support container platforms, microservices deployments, and platform engineering capabilities
• Collaborate with architects and technical leaders to align with enterprise architecture standards
• Mentor and guide engineers across DevOps tooling, automation, and cloud engineering practices
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex infrastructure and deployment issues
• Contribute to operational governance, risk management, and continuous improvement
• Support high availability, disaster recovery, and resilience planning

You are a hands-on technical leader with deep DevOps expertise and a passion for improving engineering practices at scale. You enjoy mentoring others, influencing technical direction, and delivering high-impact solutions in complex environments.

Skills & Experience:

• Extensive experience in AWS cloud engineering and automation
• Strong expertise across CI/CD tooling and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks
• Proven experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps, platform engineering, and cloud-native architectures
• Advanced scripting and automation capability (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering initiatives and mentoring teams
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

What You’ll Bring:

• Ability to provide expert technical leadership and guidance
• Experience influencing and uplifting organisational DevOps practices
• Proven track record delivering complex engineering and operational initiatives
• Focus on governance, resilience, scalability, and quality outcomes
• Commitment to continuous improvement and capability development

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks