- Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT
- $129,477 - $143,099
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.
We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.
With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.
It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’– where our people reflect our purpose.
The Role
Reporting to the Director of Technology Architecture, the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Team Leader is responsible for leading a high-performing team of cloud engineers, platform specialists and reliability professionals who support the delivery of secure, reliable and scalable digital services across the Department.
This role combines technical expertise with people leadership and plays a critical role in enabling modern cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps practices, release management and operational reliability. The successful candidate will provide leadership across cloud engineering initiatives, guide the implementation of cloud technologies and automation, and ensure the reliability and resilience of mission-critical systems.
The role offers significant opportunities to broaden your leadership capability, expand your strategic influence and contribute to some of the Department's most important digital transformation initiatives.
Duties and Responsibilities
Working closely with architects, cloud engineers, security specialists, delivery teams and senior stakeholders, you will be responsible for setting priorities, managing competing demands and providing strategic technical advice that supports departmental objectives. You will foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, automation and service reliability while supporting and developing the capability of engineers across the team.
Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Team Leader may include:
- Leading cloud engineering and operational support activities.
- Driving Infrastructure as Code, automation and DevOps maturity.
- Supporting release governance, change management and reliability engineering practices.
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.
- Ensuring cloud platforms remain secure, compliant and resilient.
- Building strong relationships with delivery teams and stakeholders across the organisation.
- Supporting the transition toward standardised and scalable cloud operating models.
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 1000 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.
In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:
- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.
Don’t meet all the role requirements?
At DEWR we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and seek to recruit staff with a wide range of backgrounds, skill levels, disciplines and working styles. If this role resonates with you and you are excited about making an impact, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.
Security Clearance - our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.
Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.
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