Principal Engineer - Oracle Cloud and Engineered Systems
Principal Engineer – Oracle Cloud and Engineered Systems
Permanent Full-Time
Opportunity to work from our modern Chatswood, St Leonards, or Charlestown Office
In-office presence with hybrid flexibility for work-life balance
Attractive salary, up to $208,821 (TRP) + 17.5% annual leave loading
Accrue up to 12 extra days off per year + 4 weeks annual leave
Increase your take-home pay with salary packaging, fitness passport and more
Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation
Applications Close: 11:59pm, 27 Aug 2025
Make a Meaningful Impact in Healthcare Technology
Join eHealth NSW as a Principal Engineer in our Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure – Corporate Applications team, where your expertise will directly contribute to improving healthcare outcomes across the state.
In this pivotal role, you’ll design and support cutting-edge hybrid solutions built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle engineered systems. You’ll leverage your deep technical knowledge to deliver reliable, scalable, and supportable platforms that power critical business applications—helping frontline health workers access the tools and data they need, when they need it.
If you're passionate about innovative cloud architecture and want your work to drive real-world impact, this is your opportunity to lead meaningful change in a vital sector.
In this role, you will :
Be our subject matter expert (SME) in Oracle platform engineering, providing technical leadership and mentoring across engineering teams.
Collaborate closely with developers, DBAs, cloud engineers, and application teams to streamline operations and improve platform resilience.
Supporting cloud integration and migration efforts, particularly for Oracle workloads on AWS, OCI, and hybrid environments.
Lead the design, automation, and optimisation of Oracle Exadata infrastructure to support enterprise-critical workloads.
Perform incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring rapid recovery and long-term remediation of platform issues.
Ensure compliance with security, governance, and audit requirements, embedding best practices into platform design and operations.
Contribute to and promote a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and technical excellence.
This role is internally referred to as Principal Engineer - DevOps
About You
We are looking for someone who has :
Extensive expertise in Oracle Exadata and recovery appliances, including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, and performance tuning for high-volume OLTP systems.
Proven experience designing scalable, secure, and resilient platforms for complex ERP solutions on OCI and hybrid cloud environments.
Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, routing, load balancing, VPC/VCNs, firewalls, and VPNs.
Expertise in CI/CD pipeline development and configuration management as well as scripting and automation.
Familiarity with Oracle Enterprise Manager, database and application observability tooling.
Strong commercial awareness in cloud cost management, budgeting, and optimisation strategies.
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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
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.
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 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 at Hayley.Cheng@health.nsw.gov.au or Hiring Manager, Geoff Neve at Geoff.Neve@health.nsw.gov.au and quote REQ594298.
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).
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