Salary: Own the AWS/EKS platform | Set the SRE standard
About the Opportunity
This is a pivotal, hands on role sitting at the centre of their cloud-native journey. You will be the go to SRE, reporting to the CTO and working closely with a collaborative Digital team to lift reliability, performance and operational maturity across a modern platform.
Day to day, you will use code, automation and smarter processes to improve availability, latency, efficiency, monitoring, incident response and capacity planning. Longer term, you will help build a hyper-scalable platform and strengthen continuous integration and configuration-as-code practices.
This position includes participation in an on call roster as part of the overall salary package.
What You’ll Bring
You are a practical, proactive engineer who enjoys owning outcomes and continuously improving how platforms run in production.
- Strong AWS experience (production), ideally across IaaS and PaaS services
- Kubernetes, ideally EKS
- Infrastructure as code, especially Terraform (CloudFormation and Ansible also useful)
- CI/CD and GitOps-style deployment patterns
- Containerisation with Docker
- Linux lifecycle experience in cloud environments (images/containers, patching, baseline security, networking fundamentals)
- Observability: monitoring, alerting, APM, incident response and post-incident improvement
Ways of Working
- Comfortable taking ownership and working independently (you can spot the problem, design the fix, and ship it)
- Confident partnering with software engineers on build, test and deployment pipelines
- Able to contribute to security posture (IAM, policies, compliance controls and regular assessments)
- Strong documentation habits and a continuous improvement mindset
Nice to Have
- AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner or beyond)
- Networking knowledge (DNS, load balancing, CDN, security)
- Bash scripting and deeper Linux administration
- Understanding of database architectures in cloud-native environments
What’s on Offer
- A rare opportunity to set the SRE standard in an organisation investing in cloud maturity
- High-impact role with direct access to leadership and influence across engineering practices
- Broad scope across reliability, automation, observability, security and performance
- Supportive, collaborative team environment and meaningful technical ownership
- Auckland-based permanent position
- 4 weeks annual leave
- 10 days sick leave, including 2 wellbeing days (available from day one)
- Extra leave: 1 volunteer day, birthday leave, and milestone leave (wedding, birth/adoption)
- Enhanced parental leave plus long service leave
- Subsidised Southern Cross health
- 24/7 EAP support for you and your family, plus wellbeing initiatives and social events
- Travel perks: free travel insurance, discounts across travel brands
- Commuting support: 50% public transport subsidy and car parking contribution up to $15/day
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Teresa Jordan a call on +64 27 376 4884 and quote Job ID: 18670 for a confidential chat.
To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.