Head of Engineering Enablement and Automation

Job no: 537681
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Sydney, Gold Coast, Queensland, Brisbane
Categories: Technology

In this role, you will:

- Lead the establishment and maturity of engineering automation practices across Technology, enabling faster, safer and more consistent delivery.
- Own the enterprise quality engineering capability, including testing strategy, standards, governance, service delivery and uplift of practices across projects and platforms.
- Drive adoption of DevOps, test automation, release, deployment and environment management practices that improve flow, collaboration, traceability and control.
- Oversee non-production setting readiness, release coordination, observability, monitoring and engineering tooling to support reliable delivery outcomes.
- Lead and develop a team across quality engineering, test automation, release, deployment, environments, DevOps and observability disciplines.

The Right Person

You will bring:

- Significant experience leading quality engineering, DevOps, release, deployment, environment management or automation functions in a complex enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of test automation, CI/CD practices, engineering tooling, observability, monitoring and reusable automation frameworks.
- Practical ITIL knowledge, with experience across service transition, release,



change and operational support practices.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, vendors, managed service providers and cross-functional technology teams.
- Strong leadership, planning, risk management and communication skills, with the ability to drive continuous improvement and consistent ways of working.

To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in technology, engineering, IT or business.
- Around 10 years’ experience in technology delivery, quality engineering, automation, release management or related enterprise technology disciplines.
- The right to work in Australia.
- Ability to meet any applicable probity, licensing or background checking requirements relevant to The Star Entertainment Group

Advertised: 18 Aug 2026 AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 25 Aug 2026 AUS Eastern Standard Time

The Star Entertainment Group recognises the continuing connection to land, sea and community of First Nations peoples, and we pay our respects to Elders, past and present.
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which our properties are located - the Turrbal and Jagera people of the Brisbane region, the Yugambeh language people of the Gold Coast region, and the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation in Pyrmont.

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📌 Head of Engineering Enablement and Automation (City of Gold Coast)
🏢 The Star Ent Group
📍 City of Gold Coast