Principal Engineer - Cloud Security Operations

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.

Join our Cloud Team

Are you passionate about building secure, scalable cloud platforms that make a real impact? We’re looking for a Principal Engineer - Cloud Security Operations to join our Cloud Services Division at eHealth NSW.

In this senior role, you’ll play a key part in shaping and securing the cloud infrastructure that powers our services across NSW Local Health Districts and eHealth NSW. Reporting to the Capability Manager, you’ll lead the design, planning, and management of the platforms that enable our cloud deployments, ensuring they’re not only robust and efficient, but built with security at the core.

This is more than just a technical role - it’s a leadership opportunity where your expertise will directly influence the success and safety of our cloud operations.

In This Role, You Will

• Drive technology development including roadmaps and transition plans.
• Lead collaboration to prioritise design trade-offs, risks, and delivery timelines.
• Lead the team to execute complex migration, implementation, and transformation activities, that align to technology solutions, services and components roadmaps.
• Drive the development and improvement of coding and testing standards, focussing on security, functionality, supportability, and efficiency.
• Ensure a consistent high level of platform security, optimisation, resiliency, stability and availability.

About You

We are looking for someone with:

• Ability to work within a demanding and complex shared services environment.
• Superior hands-on experience leading the design, build and operations of Cloud Services infrastructure.
• Passion for SecOps, modern security practices and knowledge to share with others.
• Demonstrated strong experience in Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Networking, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), Scripting, Automation and Linux or Windows support.
• Desire to deliver quality, impactful, enterprise solutions - with ability to navigate complex challenges and deliver results.

Working at eHealth

Benefits

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. As part of your application process, you will be required to answer the following target question:

Target Question (up to 500 words): Describe a time you led the design or implementation of cloud security architecture. Including the key requirements, risks, and compliance needs, how did you handle identity, data protection, and threat detection? What was the outcome and lessons learned?

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 or Hiring Manager, Martin Laslett and quote REQ644761.

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.

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).If you currently reside outside NSW, please confirm in your application your willingness to relocate if successful.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Security
• AWS
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Automation
• SecOps
• Solution Architecture
• Platform Security
• Resiliency
• Scalability