Principal Engineer – DevOps - Single Digital Patient Record

• Permanent Full Time
• Health Manager Level 5, $166,678 – $186,448 pa + 11.5% super
• Chatswood, St Leonards location 
• Flexible working 

Join the team driving the largest digital transformation program for Australia’s largest public health system.

NSW Health has established a Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) which will provide a secure, holistic and integrated view of the care a patient receives across the NSW Health system.

The SDPR program will transform how people experience and deliver care across the state, providing benefits for the people of NSW and the NSW Health workforce regardless of their location and role.

It will bring the state healthcare system together, unifying access to patient clinical information in one view. This will help to provide connected, transparent and safe care for any person at any public healthcare setting statewide. All NSW Health care teams and clinicians, no matter where they work, will securely access the same information about a patient in real time from one source.

For more information on the Single Digital Patient Record, click here.  

About the Role

The Single Digital Patient Record Implementation Authority (SDPRIA) has been established to coordinate the implementation of the SDPR across NSW Health.

We have an exciting opportunity in our Single Digital Patient Record Implementation Authority (SDPRIA), for a Principal Engineer - DevOps.

 The SDPRIA Cloud Hosting Team is building the new mission critical system which clinicians across NSW Health rely on to provide 24 x 7 critical care. A key aspect of the role will be to contribute to a team supporting the core technology infrastructure for our new Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) electronic medical record, with a focus on the Amazon Web Services tier, which is the foundation application hosting platform for the SDPR program. SDPR will provide a secure, holistic, and integrated view of the care a patient receives across the NSW Health system, enabling clinicians to access a patient's medical information in real time from a single source.

What you will do

Your team will support the core technology infrastructure for SDPR by:

• Taking accountability for the design, implementation, and operations of hosting the Epic software solution on the Amazon Web Services Public Cloud platform.
• Supporting the SDPR program's capability to deliver subsequent implementation schedules to time, budget, and quality.

 More information on the role can be found in the Position Description

About you

To be successful, you will have: 

• Extensive experience in solution, architecture, design and build of enterprise services on public cloud platforms in a shared services environment. Expertise with application virtualisation, public Cloud (AWS), image management (AWS image builder, Ansible, Packer, powershell), end to end delivery of Citrix Cloud (including DaaS) on AWS, WEM, AWS Workspace core.
• Demonstrated experience with leading modern ICT Delivery and operational practices, including associated operating methodologies (such as Agile)
• Extensive achievement in delivering large or complex enterprise solutions on public cloud platforms including use of Infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation preferred, Ansible and/or Terraform).

Benefits working with us

We support our people with great benefits so they can support the patients and staff of NSW Health. These include:

• Flexible work options
• Skills and leadership development training programs
• Salary Packaging
• Health and wellbeing programs

 More information about these benefits can be found here.

Valuing diversity and inclusion

NSW Health is committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from diverse community groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disability for all advertised positions and have strategies in place to support them.

For more information on the strategies in place to support diversity and inclusion such as NSW Health’s Stepping Up program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and our Disability Employment Strategy, please visit https://www.ehealth.nsw.gov.au/about/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion.

Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day – Apply now!

Applications close: 11:59PM Tuesday, 27^th May 2025

How to apply

To start your application, click the APPLY FOR JOB button at the top of the page and provide:

• Your current resume (up to 5 pages)
• A cover letter (up to 2 pages) which describes how your capabilities, knowledge and experience that make you the best person for this role.
• Response to the two targeted questions below:

1. Provide an example where you had to architect, design and build a Citrix DaaS on AWS based application virtualisation enterprise service for a large and complex environment, with a focus on security and handling sensitive data.
2. Provide an example where you have delivered an end to end automation solution on AWS and Citrix cloud. What technologies did you use and why were those options used? 

Role-specific enquiries: If you have any questions about the role, please contact the hiring manager Michael Ormerod via Michael.ormerod@health.nsw.gov.au 

General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: If you require assistance, have any questions about the recruitment or require adjustments to the recruitment/interview process, please contact Taylah Lagos on taylah.lagos@health.nsw.gov.au

Additional information

• This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months. 
• To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).