About us
At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.
Mō te tūranga | About the Role
As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the engineering, automation, operational support, and continuous improvement of critical platform services.
Working within a collaborative engineering team, you'll help deliver highly available and secure platforms that support application deployment, integration, observability, and operational excellence.
You'll contribute to the full platform lifecycle, including architecture, deployment automation, maintenance, capacity planning, security hardening, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and continuous optimisation.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
Strong experience administering Linux-based systems and platforms.
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes and/or OpenShift environments.
- Sound understanding of networking concepts.
- Experience with databases and storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, or object storage platforms.
- Knowledge of high availability, resilience, clustering, disaster recovery, and failover architectures.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable tools.
- Understanding of GitOps and modern platform delivery practices.
- Experience with platform security, identity management, and access control.
- Knowledge of authentication and federation technologies such as LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, and OIDC.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and platform health management.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins or CloudBees.
- Experience with Bitbucket, Jira, SonarQube, and related DevOps tooling.
- Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
- Experience working within highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Exposure to cloud platforms and container ecosystem technologies.
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