Senior Linux Engineer (Health Manager Level 4)

Permanent Full-Time

Modern office located 5 mins walk from Chatswood station

In-office presence with hybrid flexibility for work-life balance

Attractive annual salary of $141,974.00 - $169,151 + 12% Super and 17.5% annual leave loading

Accrue up to 12 extra days off per year + 4 week’s annual leave

Increase your take-home pay with salary packaging, meal allowance, fitness passports and more!

Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation

Applications Close: 11:59pm, 15 August 2025

About the Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Linux Engineer to join our dynamic Corporate Applications Team making a real difference in healthcare across NSW.

You’ll play a key role in managing, enhancing, and supporting both cloud-based and on-premises IT systems. You’ll be hands-on with the installation, configuration, and operational oversight of critical infrastructure, contributing to major IT projects with expert input and high-quality technical design. This role blends development and operations (DevOps), where you’ll collaborate closely with the wider team to handle incidents, implement changes, and drive strategic projects – all while ensuring alignment with our technical, security, and business architecture standards.

We currently have plans to transition to a hybrid model, involving both on-prem and public cloud usage, so the following skills are necessary: OpenLDAP, DNS, YUM Repositories, EXADATA’s and ZDLRA’s, NetApp, NFS, Oracle Linux Virtualisation Management (OLVM), Containerized Management, CFengine, and Ansible.

In this role, you will:

Contribute to the design, delivery, and documentation of high-level infrastructure solutions.

Provide technical leadership and input to resolve complex infrastructure related issues.

Implement automated procedures to improve operational capability, including self-service.

Drive improvements in service delivery aligned to industry trends and standards in DevOps tools.

Collaborate with key stakeholders and provide plain language advice on complex technical issues to non-technical audiences.

Set up performing monitoring metrics for infrastructure, including regular performance reporting to ensure we are operating to SLA’s.

About You

We are seeking a highly skilled and self-driven Senior Linux Systems Engineer to join our infrastructure team. This role is pivotal in managing and evolving our Oracle Linux-based on-prem environment as we transition to a hybrid infrastructure model incorporating public cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Deploy, manage, upgrade, and patch core Linux services including:

OpenLDAP, DNS, YUM Repositories, NFS

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM)

Containerized environments

cfengine and Ansible

Administer and support EXADATA and ZDLRA systems, and NetApp storage solutions.

Demonstrate experience in public cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google, and Oracle Cloud. Also, experience with technologies such as EC2, VPC, CloudFormation, CodeCommit, Systems Manager, Route 53, Load Balancers, and CodePipeline is required.

Develop and maintain automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code using tools like Ansible, Terraform, CFEngine, Puppet, Python, Unix Shell, and PowerShell.

Working knowledge as a L3-level support for Linux-centric systems, virtualization platforms, Windows Server, application packaging, patching, and networking.

Drive operational excellence in managing enterprise applications across a large and diverse IT environment.

A self-starter and proactive approach to ownership of tasks and drive them to successful completion with minimal supervision.

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Working at eHealth

Our people are at the heart of who we are. We support our people with great benefits so they can enrich health in millions of ways every day:

Flexible work options

Professional growth and career development

Allocated day off per month

Salary packaging

Various health and wellbeing programs to support our team

About Us – eHealth NSW

At eHealth NSW, we’re leading the digital transformation of Australia’s largest health system. As NSW Health’s digital centre of excellence, we design, build and support world-class ICT solutions that improve patient care across the state.

Guided by a Cloud First Strategy, we’re harnessing digital technology to better patient care and deliver scalable, quality, patient-centred, digital healthcare. With your skills and experience, you can help enrich the lives of millions while developing your career within Australia’s largest health organisation—alongside passionate tech professionals, health partners and industry leaders building solutions that truly make a difference.

How to apply

Click APPLY and share with us your cover letter and most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience.

We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we welcome their use, we’re eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application!

For further discussions around the role or recruitment process, including adjustments, please contact our Talent Advisor Hayley Cheng at [email protected] or Hiring Manager, Jacob Chabo at [email protected] and quote REQ594286.