Contract Platform Engineer

Westpac New Zealand Limited; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand Limited seeks a Platform Engineer to own the engineering, automation, operational support and continuous improvement of critical platform services. You will work in a collaborative team to deliver highly available, secure platforms supporting application deployment, integration, observability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities include architecture, deployment automation, maintenance, capacity planning, security hardening, troubleshooting, disaster recovery and

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end platform lifecycle, including architecture, deployment automation, maintenance and capacity planning.
• Lead security hardening, disaster recovery planning, and continuous optimisation of platform services.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver highly available, secure platforms for application deployment.
• Drive automation and observability initiatives across the platform stack.
• Contribute to incident response, monitoring improvements, and reliability engineering practices.

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Networking

Databases/Storage

HA/DR

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

Security

Identity Management

Monitoring/Observability

Troubleshooting

CI/CD

DevOps Tools

Cloud Platforms

Tools

Jenkins

CloudBees

Bitbucket

Jira

SonarQube

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

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.

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.

Our culture is rich with stories of how our people like to help, our customers, our community and each other. This is reflected through flexible working arrangements to ensure that our people have a balance in their life with those things that are important to them. Through ensuring that we provide opportunities to everyone regardless of what society throws at them, we are a safe place to work where you are treated equally and appreciated.