Principal Engineer – Oracle Cloud and Engineered Systems

Permanent Full-Time

Opportunity to work from our modern Chatswood, St Leonards, or Charlestown Office

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

Attractive salary, up to $208,821 (TRP) + 17.5% annual leave loading

Accrue up to 12 extra days off per year + 4 weeks annual leave

Increase your take-home pay with salary packaging, fitness passport and more

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

Applications Close: 11:59pm, 27 Aug 2025

Make a Meaningful Impact in Healthcare Technology

Join eHealth NSW as a Principal Engineer in our Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure – Corporate Applications team, where your expertise will directly contribute to improving healthcare outcomes across the state.

In this pivotal role, you’ll design and support cutting-edge hybrid solutions built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle engineered systems. You’ll leverage your deep technical knowledge to deliver reliable, scalable, and supportable platforms that power critical business applications—helping frontline health workers access the tools and data they need, when they need it.

If you're passionate about innovative cloud architecture and want your work to drive real-world impact, this is your opportunity to lead meaningful change in a vital sector.

In this role, you will :

Be our subject matter expert (SME) in Oracle platform engineering, providing technical leadership and mentoring across engineering teams.

Collaborate closely with developers, DBAs, cloud engineers, and application teams to streamline operations and improve platform resilience.

Supporting cloud integration and migration efforts, particularly for Oracle workloads on AWS, OCI, and hybrid environments.

Lead the design, automation, and optimisation of Oracle Exadata infrastructure to support enterprise-critical workloads.

Perform incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring rapid recovery and long-term remediation of platform issues.

Ensure compliance with security, governance, and audit requirements, embedding best practices into platform design and operations.

Contribute to and promote a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and technical excellence.

About You

We are looking for someone who has :

Extensive expertise in Oracle Exadata and recovery appliances, including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, and performance tuning for high-volume OLTP systems.

Proven experience designing scalable, secure, and resilient platforms for complex ERP solutions on OCI and hybrid cloud environments.

Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, routing, load balancing, VPC/VCNs, firewalls, and VPNs.

Expertise in CI/CD pipeline development and configuration management as well as scripting and automation.

Familiarity with Oracle Enterprise Manager, database and application observability tooling.

Strong commercial awareness in cloud cost management, budgeting, and optimisation strategies.

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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

How to apply

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 accept 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 at [email protected] or Hiring Manager, Geoff Neve at [email protected] and quote REQ594298.

We will review all applications after the closing date. If your application is successful, you may be invited to take part in additional assessments as part of the recruitment process.