Hybrid Cloud Reliability Engineer - AWS/EKS & GitOps

Webjet Group; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid work options

Central Auckland office

Health insurance discounts

Travel discounts

Job summary

Webjet Group NZ is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead cloud-native operations, from code to platform to continuous integration. You will own the AWS-based cloud footprint, including EKS, monitoring, and automation, reporting to the CTO and working with the Digital team.

This is a pivotal, entrepreneur-like role in a travel e-commerce environment. You will drive CI/CD, IaC, and performance improvements, partnering with development to ensure scalable, reliable services while maintaining

Qualifications

• Experience with IaaS and PaaS cloud stacks, AWS preferred.
• Hands-on experience with GitOps-style CI/CD in production.
• Experience in cloud provisioning code development and tools.
• Familiar with containerisation and Linux server lifecycle on public cloud.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain code for distributed applications to meet requirements.
• Maintain CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code culture across the platform.
• Operate and maintain AWS-based cloud footprint and EKS environment.
• Ensure platform capacity and performance meet SLIs/SLAs.
• Identify toil and automate to improve reliability and reduce lead time.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable cloud-native software.
• Maintain cloud security posture and IAM/permissions controls.
• Contribute to system design, capacity planning and docs.
• Participate in on-call support for the platform.

Skills

GitOps CI/CD

Cloud architecture

Automation & scripting

Performance troubleshooting

Proactive problem solving

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

AWS

EKS

Job description

Webjet Group NZ is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead cloud-native operations, from code to platform to continuous integration. You will own the AWS-based cloud footprint, including EKS, monitoring, and automation, reporting to the CTO and working with the Digital team.

This is a pivotal, entrepreneur-like role in a travel e-commerce environment. You will drive CI/CD, IaC, and performance improvements, partnering with development to ensure scalable, reliable services while maintaining