The State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) is looking for a Senior DevOps Lead to deliver and maintain software infrastructure, processes, and tools to ensure seamless delivery of software implementing best practices for continuous integration, testing, and deployment.

You will be joining the Digital Team. The team is central to SIRA's purpose of ensuring NSW insurance schemes protect and support the people who need them, now and in the future.

Benefits

• Fantastic ongoing clerk grade 9/10 Opportunity.
• Salary range: $125,693 to $138,510 + super, commensurate with experience.
• Sydney or Gosford based position with expectation of 2 office days per week.
• State of the art offices.
• Wellbeing programs and resources available.
• Excellent career development and learning development opportunities.

About Us
This is an exciting opportunity to work in our State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) who regulates three statutory insurance schemes in NSW. This role sits more specifically in our Digital team. As the Digital team, our mission is to lead SIRA's digital transformation, helping it become a smarter, more efficient and cyber secure regulator. We create user-friendly systems and services that are accessible to everyone.

Understand more about SIRA - here

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop and implement DevOps strategies, processes and technologies that improve software quality, reliability, and scalability in collaboration with the stakeholders
• Manage and monitor the continuous integration and deployment pipelines, ensuring that software is tested and deployed efficiently and effectively
• Ensure that security, compliance, and performance requirements are met throughout the development and deployment process
• Provide coaching and mentoring and direct support to internal and external teams during various operations, such as deployment and general production operational issues to produce efficient and effective services
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between development and support operations teams to ensure smooth handover of code from development to operations
• Drive the adoption of best practices, such as infrastructure as automated deployment and testing.

About you:

• A strong Senior DevOps Lead who is willing to lead and deliver a pivotal transformation in software development and operations practice
• A great communicator with excellent stakeholder management skills
• A genuine interest in using digital to improve services to the people of NSW through the State's insurance compensation schemes
• ITIL Certified, or has good understanding of release management and change management
• Experience in Salesforce, Azure DevOps, GitHub, bash, python and automated testing is desirable

If you want to be part of this forward thinking, innovative team that thrive in challenging the status quo, we would love to hear from you!

What we need from you:
To start your journey towards becoming our Senior DevOps Lead, please click on the link below and attach your resume (max 5 pages) and cover letter (max 2 pages).
In your cover letter please share your motivation for applying for this position and your relevant skills.

A talent pool may be created from this recruitment process to fill future ongoing and temporary opportunities.

Salary Grade 9/10, with the base salary for this role starting at 125,693 base plus superannuation

Click Here to access the Role Description. For enquiries relating to recruitment please contact Vanessa Stanghieri via [email protected].

Visit the Capability Application Tool to prepare for the recruitment process by accessing practice application and interview questions based on the focus capabilities listed in the role description.

Closing Date: Tuesday 15th July 2025 [9:59am]

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