At NCS Australia, we are more than a technology services company—we are a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and creators shaping the future. With a strong presence across the APAC region, we partner with government and enterprise organisations to tackle complex challenges and deliver solutions that drive real, lasting impact.

We are passionate about unlocking value through technology. By focusing on people, committing to quality, and challenging traditional thinking, we believe technology services can be done better. Our team brings this to life by advising, transforming, and managing technology to help our clients and communities thrive.

We love big ideas and bold thinkers. Bring your ambition and your creativity—together, we will turn them into extraordinary opportunities. Ready to make tomorrow with us? Explore our opportunities and join a team that is redefining what’s possible.

• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to understand customer needs, shape technical solutions, and lead an Agile team to deliver roadmap priorities and sprint outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, software design, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and engineering best practices.
• Lead and contribute to the development, testing, deployment, and support of cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, platforms, and user interfaces.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews, automated testing, and secure software development practices.
• Collaborate with Engineering Leads, Architects, and Product teams to drive technology, process, tooling, and platform improvements.
• Support technical decision-making, technology selection, architecture governance, and alignment with engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Oversee platform and cloud engineering activities, including infrastructure automation, containerisation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence.
• Ensure delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions that meet customer and business objectives.
• Support product deployments, customer implementations, technical escalations, training, and ongoing operational support.
• Mentor and coach engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and foster a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.
• Drive continuous improvement across people, processes, technology, and delivery, while documenting and communicating outcomes to enable repeatable and sustainable practices.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and role model company values across all interactions.

• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers within Agile software development teams.
• Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in Rust and exposure to Python and/or C++.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, system integration, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, and secure software development.
• Knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Familiarity with networking and integration technologies including REST, gRPC, MQTT, JSON, XML, and Protobuf.
• Experience with engineering tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, and Confluence.
• Strong problem-solving, stakeholder management, communication, and coaching skills.
• Experience working with cloud-native, edge, IoT, or other distributed systems environments.
• Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent industry experience.

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks