Job Description

You see the big picture, you’ve always worked on a grand scale, and now you’re ready to re-focus on grand impact.

You have the opportunity to gain a wealth of expertise and a diverse range of skills, providing insight and knowledge without losing sight of your work-life balance or wellbeing.

In this role, you'll:

Work within the SCATS team (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System), the world’s leading intelligent traffic management system, powering smarter cities across more than 200 locations globally. Created by Transport for NSW, SCATS enables road authorities to optimise traffic flow across some of the most complex transport networks in the world using advanced algorithms, real time data, and high performance software.

SCATS is now undergoing a major transformation, evolving into a modern, cloud enabled platform to capture growing global demand and unlock new commercial opportunities. This is a rare chance to join a mission critical technology organisation at a pivotal moment and help shape the future of intelligent transport at a global scale.

In the Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer role, you’ll build and operate cloud-based products that enable governments to manage traffic more efficiently and safely. You’ll work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, automation, resilience, and real time systems, supporting capabilities such as coordinated traffic signals, connected vehicle communication, and priority routing for emergency services.

The primary purpose of this role is to deliver highly effective, practical, and reliable software components for new and existing intelligent transport systems. Furthermore, the role continuously develops and assesses the systems to ensure systems meet the evolving needs of customers.

If you’ve ever been curious about how cities keep traffic moving, how vehicles interact with intersections, or how technology enables green light priority for emergency services, this role offers the chance to work on systems that make a real, visible impact every day.

Duties and responsibilities will include (not limited to):

• Collaborating within a project team to streamline workflows and release processes supporting cloud infrastructure design, build and maintenance
• Reviewing requirements to design and develop high quality, secure and robust infrastructure, and software solutions
• Monitoring system capabilities and diagnostics to maintain business continuity and maximise application uptime
• Conducting code reviews and analysis to identify issues and ensure consistency, efficiency and reliability of new software and infrastructure
• Supporting deployment of component packages and applications to ensure successful imports across environments

For more information on this position and business unit, view the and information pack

About You:

For you to be successful within this role you should meet with all, or most of the following criteria:

• 3+ years' experience gained in a similar role, as described above
• Completed a technology focused degree, or demonstrated equivalent practical experience Ability to work within a complex operating environment delivering crucial software solutions to the community, and managing potentially conflicting development cycles and deliverables
• Capable of working at a very high level within infrastructure environments, with immutable servers and infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines and principles

This is a permanent flexible hybrid role. Working from the office on Wednesdays until July, then 50% thereafter. This role will be based in our offices at 477 Pitt Street, Sydney CBD.

Why join this team?

• Career mobility and long term stability – Progress across platforms, programs, and domains within a large, future focused organisation. TfNSW has one of the largest employers in the southern hemisphere, with over 30,000 employees
• Deliver DevOps at enterprise scale – Build and operate platforms supporting mission critical systems across one of Australia’s largest transport networks
• Purpose driven engineering – Your pipelines, automation, and reliability practices directly improve services used by millions across NSW
• Modern DevOps tooling and practices – Work with cloud platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability and security by design
• Flexible and hybrid working – Support for work-life balance through flexible hours and hybrid arrangements
• Strong focus on uplift and excellence – Ongoing investment in DevOps maturity, engineering standards, and professional development
• Supportive, inclusive tech culture – Collaborate with skilled engineers in an environment that values diversity, safety. and continuous improvement

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers

Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy

Apply today

Applications closing 11:59 PM, Sunday 17th May 2026.

For more information about this role, please contact KEVIN.DORAN@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Learn more about how to apply via Our recruitment process | Transport for NSW

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