Introduction
The Senior DevOps Engineer role at Revenue NSW is assessed through a brief application, so the quality of your selected outcomes matters. Based in Parramatta with flexible office locations and hybrid working, the ongoing Clerk Grade 9/10 role supports the build, release and maintenance of digital services used across NSW.
Use the brief cover letter to centre your application on two practical outcomes: safer, repeatable delivery through automation or CI/CD, and stronger operational resilience through monitoring, hardening or release improvement. The CV can then carry the supporting technology and career detail.
When explaining how to apply for Senior DevOps Engineer, show what you changed in the delivery environment and how the team or service benefited. Evidence involving AWS, Infrastructure as Code, pipelines, controlled releases and support for colleagues will be especially useful.
Applications close Monday 27 July 2026 at 9:59am. Read the official job ad before submitting.
Contents
- Senior DevOps Engineer role snapshot
- Application requirements
- Candidate evidence areas
- Example application structure
- Help with your application
Senior DevOps Engineer role snapshot
| Role title | Senior DevOps Engineer |
| Organisation | Revenue NSW, Department of Customer Service |
| Location | Parramatta, with flexible office locations across NSW |
| Employment | Ongoing full-time, 35 hours per week |
| Grade | Clerk Grade 9/10 |
| Salary | $133,348 to $146,945 plus superannuation |
| Closing date | Monday 27 July 2026 at 9:59am |
| Official job ad | View the official job ad |
Application requirements for Senior DevOps Engineer
- Up-to-date CV
- Brief cover letter outlining how your skills and experience align with the role
Candidate evidence areas for Senior DevOps Engineer
| Evidence area | How to demonstrate it |
|---|---|
| Cloud and platform delivery | Show how you supported AWS or mixed cloud and non-cloud environments, with a result involving resilience, scale, cost or service quality. |
| CI/CD and automation | Use an example involving GitLab, Bamboo, Subversion, pipelines, scripting or Terraform and quantify what became faster or more repeatable. |
| Security and operational resilience | Explain a hardening, cloud-network security, monitoring, alerting, release-control or incident improvement and the risk it addressed. |
| Containers and supporting systems | Connect relevant Docker, AWS ECS, Unix, Windows, databases, batch scheduling or development-environment experience to a delivery outcome. |
| Collaboration and documentation | Show how you mentored colleagues, facilitated a technical decision or wrote documentation that improved team operation. |
Essential role requirements
- Ability to travel regularly to engage with the Revenue NSW team and partners at Parramatta if required
- AWS certification or willingness to attain it
Example application structure for Senior DevOps Engineer
The application requires an up-to-date CV and a brief cover letter. Keep the letter focused on the outcomes most relevant to Revenue NSW’s delivery environment. The table below shows a practical structure.
| Cover letter section | What to include |
|---|---|
| Opening | State your DevOps focus and connect it to reliable Revenue NSW digital services. |
| Delivery outcome | Explain one cloud, pipeline, Infrastructure as Code or automation improvement, including your decisions and measurable result. |
| Reliability outcome | Show how hardening, monitoring, incident management or release control made a service safer or more resilient. |
| Team contribution | Demonstrate mentoring, collaboration or documentation that helped others deliver and support the environment. |
| Closing | Confirm your interest in improving the platforms and delivery practices behind public digital services. |
What the panel will want to see in your examples
- Clear ownership of a delivery or reliability improvement
- Technical choices explained in terms of risk and service outcomes
- Automation that reduced manual effort or release variability
- Operational awareness across cloud and existing platforms
- Practical contribution to DevOps culture and team capability
Help with your Senior DevOps Engineer application
Before submitting, check that the brief cover letter contains two complete outcomes and that the CV makes the relevant environment, tools and scale easy to find. Read the official job ad again and confirm the final application fields.
If you want help selecting and presenting the strongest DevOps evidence, request tailored NSW Government application support from Team 3Thirty.