The role

Working closely with architects, cloud engineers, security specialists, delivery teams and senior stakeholders, you will be responsible for setting priorities, managing competing demands and providing strategic technical advice that supports departmental objectives. You will foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, automation and service reliability while supporting and developing the capability of engineers across the team.

Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Team Leader may include:

• Leading cloud engineering and operational support activities.
• Driving Infrastructure as Code, automation and DevOps maturity.
• Supporting release governance, change management and reliability engineering practices.
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.
• Ensuring cloud platforms remain secure, compliant and resilient.
• Building strong relationships with delivery teams and stakeholders across the organisation.
• Supporting the transition toward standardised and scalable cloud operating models.

Job description

Reporting to the Director of Technology Architecture, the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Team Leader is responsible for leading a high-performing team of cloud engineers, platform specialists and reliability professionals who support the delivery of secure, reliable and scalable digital services across the Department.

This role combines technical expertise with people leadership and plays a critical role in enabling modern cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps practices, release management and operational reliability. The successful candidate will provide leadership across cloud engineering initiatives, guide the implementation of cloud technologies and automation, and ensure the reliability and resilience of mission-critical systems.

The role offers significant opportunities to broaden your leadership capability, expand your strategic influence and contribute to some of the Department's most important digital transformation initiatives.

Eligibility requirements

Please note, under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the APS unless the Agency delegate has agreed, in writing.

This is a designated security assessed position. The successful candidate will have the ability to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance. 

This selection process may be used to establish a merit pool. The pool might be accessed to fill ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies for similar roles in the Department over the next 18 months.

About the agency

We are the department that helps job seeking Australians find safe, secure, and well-paid work while we ourselves strive to be a model employer. We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or retraining to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities. Secure jobs are vital—driving future economic growth and providing people with the certainty. We focus on connecting Australians who are starting, advancing or changing their career with the relevant skills, knowledge and experience to gain or regain employment. Our work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. It is our unique purpose to help people realise their potential and we want you to be part of it. Underpinning our important work is our focus on culture. We recognise that how we do things is equally important as what we achieve. Our workplace is one where different perspective are encouraged, people feel a sense of belonging and draw on the expertise of their peers. Our people demonstrate the APS Values, which includes being open, thoughtful, curious and candid. We also value employee wellbeing and developing leadership through investment in capability.