AI-First Cloud SRE | Azure & DevOps

Propellerhead Limited; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Knowledge sharing sessions

Employee Share Purchase Scheme

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Job summary

Propellerhead in Auckland, New Zealand, is looking for an experienced, AI-native Systems Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering Team. You will support operations, improve reliability, and optimise software and infrastructure in an AI-assisted delivery pipeline.

You will design Azure cloud deployments, manage deployments and networking, ensure security and performance, and automate CI/CD pipelines while contributing to proactive problem solving in a hybrid Auckland-based role.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Site/Systems Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or equivalent role.
• Agentic-first mindset: comfortable using AI to diagnose, script, automate and document in an AI-assisted delivery pipeline.
• Expertise developing scalable web applications.
• Proficiency in Rust, Java, .NET or Go; experience with JavaScript frameworks (Node.js, ReactJS, AngularJS).
• Scripting experience using PowerShell, Ruby, Python, shells; AI-assisted tooling welcome.
• Strong experience with Azure deployment architectures, DevOps pipelines, GitHub Actions, Terraform.
• System administration of Linux cloud-based servers.
• Troubleshooting and configuring virtual networks.
• Familiarity with monitoring frameworks such as New Relic, Dynatrace; dashboards and alerts.
• Experience with AWS and Bamboo/Bitbucket Pipelines is a plus.
• Ability to switch context across complex environments; calm under pressure.
• Willingness to learn and up-skill.
• Auckland-based role; hybrid working with mandatory in-office three days/week.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud deployment architectures on Azure with core development teams.
• Provision deployment environments including servers, services, networking, and client communications.
• Ensure security, scalability, and performance in solution architectures.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and automation for development stacks.
• Coordinate automatic and partial manual software releases with teams.
• Configure monitoring and alerting tools and integrate with support systems.
• Assist with support triage, troubleshooting, and incident verification.
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.
• Document architecture and deployment processes with AI assistance.
• Share knowledge across teams to reduce repeat issues.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Azure

Terraform

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Ruby

Go

JavaScript

ReactJS

Node.js

Linux

New Relic

Dynatrace

AWS

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

New Relic

Dynatrace

Bamboo/Bitbucket Pipelines

Job description

Propellerhead in Auckland, New Zealand, is looking for an experienced, AI-native Systems Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering Team. You will support operations, improve reliability, and optimise software and infrastructure in an AI-assisted delivery pipeline.

You will design Azure cloud deployments, manage deployments and networking, ensure security and performance, and automate CI/CD pipelines while contributing to proactive problem solving in a hybrid Auckland-based role.