DevOps Engineer (Enterprise Digital Tooling)

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities; Wellington, Blenheim; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks leave

Insurance benefits

Job summary

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join the Asset Delivery Platform team in Wellington or Christchurch. You will improve platform reliability, security, scalability, and deployment efficiency while developing reusable services and automation to speed up delivery across teams.

Key focus areas include pipelines for platform configuration, automation, and governance, with an emphasis on operational stability and continuous improvement in enterprise platforms like

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and optimizing platforms.
• Experience with automation and modern engineering practices.
• Proven ability delivering reliable, scalable platform services.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining automated delivery pipelines for platform configuration and code promotion Platform Engineering.
• Creating and enhancing scripts, tools, and automation solutions that reduce manual effort, increase efficiency, and improve operational performance.
• Configuring, building, and supporting enterprise platforms, ensuring they are secure, scalable, resilient, and fit for purpose.
• Developing reusable platform components, templates, and automation capabilities that enable consistent, reliable, and efficient technology delivery across teams.

Skills

Platform engineering

Automation scripting

Enterprise platforms

IT service management

Job description

• Improve platform reliability, security, scalability, and deployment efficiency
• Assist in continuously improving engineering practices
• Permanent Wellington or Christchurch-based role, 5 weeks leave + insurance benefits

Te whiwhinga mahi - Our opportunity

Kāinga Ora are currently looking for a DevOps Engineers for our wider Platforms team. As one of our DevOps Engineers you will leverage DevOps and platform engineering practices to improve platform reliability, security, scalability, and deployment efficiency. This role sits within our Asset Delivery Platform team.

Working within a shared engineering capability, you'll develop and maintain reusable engineering services, automation frameworks, and operational solutions that empower teams to deliver technology outcomes faster and more effectively.

Our DevOps Engineer's responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining automated delivery pipelines for platform configuration and code promotion Platform Engineering
• Creating and enhancing scripts, tools, and automation solutions that reduce manual effort, increase efficiency, and improve operational performance
• Configuring, building, and supporting enterprise platforms, ensuring they are secure, scalable, resilient, and fit for purpose
• Developing reusable platform components, templates, and automation capabilities that enable consistent, reliable, and efficient technology delivery across teams.

Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu - What you will bring

We're looking for a collaborative and solutions-focused professional to help drive the ongoing evolution, reliability, and optimisation of our technology platforms including ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence. To be successful in this role, you'll bring proven experience supporting and engineering enterprise platforms within complex environments, with a strong focus on operational stability, service reliability, and continuous improvement. You'll have hands-on experience configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and optimising platforms throughout their lifecycle, while leveraging automation and modern engineering practices to improve efficiency and performance.

Here's what you will bring to the role:

• Experience supporting, engineering, and enhancing enterprise platforms to ensure reliable and resilient technology services
• Experience with platform configuration, automation, upgrades, lifecycle management, release management, and cost optimisation within production environments
• Ability to apply IT service management principles, operational support processes, and incident and problem management practices to maintain service excellence
• Experience diagnosing and resolving complex platform issues while effectively managing operational risk and implementing secure engineering and governance controls
• Capability in building strong relationships with technical and business stakeholders, using excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to achieve successful outcomes.

Nōu te rourou - What's in it for you?

We offer competitive salaries, five weeks' annual leave and a benefits package including a range of insurances, flexible working arrangements and career development.

These benefits are described in more detail here https://careers.kaingaora.govt.nz/a-great-place-to-work/benefits

As a Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities employee, we want to make sure that you have all the tools and support you need. We want to ensure you are healthy and have work-life balance. We also want to support and grow your personal and career development through on-the-job learning, training courses, secondments and study opportunities.

Mō mātou - Our Organisation

At Kāinga Ora, ours is the important responsibility of transforming New Zealand's housing choices, outcomes and the entire housing sector by creating homes and communities that allow New Zealanders to thrive.

What is exciting about working for Kāinga Ora is getting the chance to make a real and positive impact on New Zealanders' lives. With skills, planning and purposeful action, our people are creating the homes and neighbourhoods that will build the future of Aotearoa.

We are passionate about transforming New Zealand for the better. That includes being a trusted partner for Māori and iwi, protecting and enabling their rights, interests and aspirations under the guidance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Ō tātou uara - Our values

Our values were developed by us, for us. They unite us as an organisation and guide how we work every day.

Our values are:

• Manaakitanga - People at the Heart
• Mahi Tahi - Better Together
• Whanake - Be Bold