DevOps Lead

Join us and let’s make a bigger difference together.

Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to Help People to Thrive.

It’s an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity – we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Our Opportunity:

The DevOps Lead is responsible for enabling high-performing, scalable, and secure software delivery by defining and promoting best practices across Development practices, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure management, release governance, and security. Rather than directly managing delivery or infrastructure teams, this role focuses on setting the strategic direction, frameworks, and guardrails that empower engineering teams to deliver with speed, safety, and consistency.

This role will lead the development of a DevOps strategy and maturity model, establish standards for development, CI/CD pipelines, and guide the adoption of secure, automated, and compliant delivery practices. It will also play a key role in fostering a DevOps culture across the organisation by facilitating knowledge sharing, aligning cross-functional teams, and uplifting capability through enablement and governance.

Accountabilities include:

• Define and drive the DevOps vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with engineering and business goals
• Champion a DevOps culture by advocating for collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement across development, operations, QA, and security teams
• Establish and maintain a DevOps maturity model and associated KPIs to assess adoption, performance, and areas for improvement.
• Define and promote best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) across teams
• Establish standardised pipeline patterns, quality gates, and deployment strategies to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable delivery
• Collaborate with engineering and QA teams to guide the integration of automated testing, security scans, and compliance checks into pipelines
• Act as a subject matter expert and advisor on pipeline design, deployment workflows, and release readiness
• Establish baseline metrics for system health, performance, and availability (e.g., uptime, latency, error rates, MTTR, MTTD)
• Collaborate with platform and operations teams to ensure consistent implementation of monitoring and alerting tools
• Guide teams in adopting SLOs/SLIs and integrating them into delivery pipelines
• Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams to align DevOps practices with internal policies and external regulatory requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2)
• Support teams in integrating automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines

About You:

To be successful in the role you will bring a unique blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and stakeholder engagement — acting as a trusted advisor, thought leader, and enabler of DevOps excellence across the organisation.  You will also be able to demonstrate the following capabilities / experience:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles, with at least 2 years in a leadership or enablement capacity
• Proven experience guiding the adoption of DevOps practices, tools, and frameworks across multiple teams
• Experience collaborating with engineering, security, QA, and product teams to align on delivery and operational practices
• Demonstrated success in defining and rolling out DevOps standards, maturity models, and enablement programs
• Experience producing playbooks, templates, and reference architectures for DevOps practices

What’s on Offer:

You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

• Competitive salary + bonus program
• Enjoy additional yearly Well-Being and Community leave days
• 14-week paid parental leave, with equal benefit for both parents PLUS our Bump to Baby
• Employee Referral Program
• Employee Assistance Program – support and assistance for you and your partner at those times in life when you need it most
• Maxxia Rewards - a great range of discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets, department stores, attractions, travel, cinemas, restaurants.
• Discounts across the Australian Unity business including Private Health Insurance, General Insurance + more!
• Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform

For further benefits visit: https://www.australianunity.com.au/careers/culture

Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature aged people.