Senior Network Engineer - Automation

Senior Network Engineer – Automation (Health Manager Level 4) 
 

• Permanent Full-Time | Chatswood or St Leonards office
• In-office presence with hybrid flexibility for work-life balance
• Attractive salary, up to $175,151 + 12% Super and annual leave loading
• Allocated day off per month, salary packaging, discounted fitness passport and more!
• Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation

Applications Close: 11:59pm, 29 January 2026

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.

About the Opportunity 
As Senior Network Engineer of our Statewide Network Services (SNS) – Automation team at eHealth NSW, you will help make a real difference in healthcare through your technical expertise, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design effective automation solutions using Cisco and CI/CD practices. 

This role offers the opportunity to optimize automation workflows for performance and efficiency. This includes integrating feedback for improvements and implementing robust processes for testing, validation, and deployment of network changes to ensure platforms across NSW Health operate seamlessly to deliver patient care.

In this role, you will:

• Be a technical SME in technical delivery, automation designs, deployment, and solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across SNS to incorporate CI/CD designs, workflows, and practices to accelerate network automation changes.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using programming languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash, ensuring robustness, efficiency, and adherence to coding standards.
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipeline to streamline testing, validation, and deployment of network automation changes, whilst monitoring for feedback – ensuring timely detection and resolution.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for all automation solutions, configurations, and processes.  

   

About You

We are looking for someone who:

• Is proficient in programming and brings practical experience in programming and scripting, with exposure to languages such as Python and other relevant technologies.  
• Has demonstrated experience working in a similar role with RESTful APIs, Web Services, Cisco, IaC, CI/CD Pipelines and Ansible.
• Will collaborate and develop processes with cross-functional teams, ensuring optimal performance of the network automation process.
• Is pro-active in monitoring and improving deployments, procedures, and designs – providing clear configurations and solutions aligned with policies and standards, including documentation.

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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 welcome 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, Shannon C and quote REQ634957.

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.