Senior Engineer - DevOps (Windows) - Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR)

• Permanent Full Time
• Health Manager Level 4, $137,173 – $163,431 pa + 11.5% super 
• Chatswood, St Leonards location
• Flexible Working

About us 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 for a Senior Engineer - DevOps (Windows) to work within the SDPRIA.

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.

For more information, read the full POSITION DESCRIPTION.

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.
• Aligning team practices with eHealth NSW’s Service Delivery Operating Model.

You will:

• Develop, plan & deliver complex systems architecture, guidance & advisory, and ensure the successful building, operating and running of products or platforms in alignment with relevant roadmaps.
• Design, deploy, and manage the foundational infrastructure for robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Account for optimisation, cost efficiency, integrations, and automation.
• Deliver the Disaster Recovery and Resilience required.
• Collaborate with the team to achieve cross-functional synergy, lifting the overall cloud capability of the Epic platform.
• Collaborate with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, including platform and product owners, solution architects, engineers, project team members, and SMEs from our partners.

About you

The skills, knowledge and experience we are looking for in you are:

• Demonstrated experience in solution, design, build and operations of enterprise applications on public cloud platforms in a shared services environment. Expertise with Windows Server, AWS, automation, a working knowledge of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and networking protocols, Active Directory, Group Policy, Domain Name Services, FTP/SCP and HTTP
• Demonstrated experience with leading modern ICT Delivery and operational practices, including associated operating methodologies (such as Agile)
• Demonstrated achievement in delivering large or complex enterprise solutions on public cloud platforms including use of Infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation preferred, Ansible and/or Terraform).

If this sounds like you and you’re looking for a rewarding new opportunity, we would love to hear from you.

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 on our Benefits Page.

Valuing diversity and inclusion

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

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 Diversity and Inclusion page.

How to apply

To apply for this role, please submit an online application and attach your resume (up to 5 pages) along with responses in the online questionnaire which describes how your capabilities, knowledge and experience make you the best person for this role. 

Please note there are 3 different positions advertised, ensure you tailor your Answers to the specific position.

1. Provide an example where you had to design and build a cloud based enterprise service for a large and complex environment, with a focus on security and handling sensitive data.

2. Provide an example where you have proposed and developed an enhancement to an existing solution. What problem were you solving through this enhancement?

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Michael Ormerod on michael.ormerod@health.nsw.gov.au

If you require adjustments to the recruitment/interview process, please contact Olivia Liu on olivia.liu@health.nsw.gov.au

Applications Close: Sunday 24th November, 2024 (11:59PM AEST)

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).