DevOps Engineer – Enterprise Platform & Automation

Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities is hiring DevOps Engineers to strengthen the Asset Delivery Platform team. The role focuses on leveraging DevOps and platform engineering to improve reliability, security, scalability, and deployment efficiency in a permanent Wellington or Christchurch-based position.

You’ll help develop reusable services, automation frameworks, and operational solutions for faster technology delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience configuring, automating, upgrading and managing lifecycle of enterprise platforms.
• Ability to implement cost optimization within production environments.
• Strong incident management and operational risk practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience building reusable platform components and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated delivery pipelines for platform configuration and code promotion.
• Create and enhance scripts and tools to reduce manual effort and improve performance.
• Configure, build, and support enterprise platforms that are secure, scalable, and resilient.
• Develop reusable platform components and automation to enable consistent delivery across teams.

Skills

Platform configuration

Automation

Release management

Cost optimization

Incident management

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities is hiring DevOps Engineers to strengthen the Asset Delivery Platform team. The role focuses on leveraging DevOps and platform engineering to improve reliability, security, scalability, and deployment efficiency in a permanent Wellington or Christchurch-based position.

You’ll help develop reusable services, automation frameworks, and operational solutions for faster technology delivery.