IT Service Reliability and Operational Excellence Manager

One New Zealand; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Southern Cross health insurance

Lifestyle leave

Employee discounts

Rainbow Tick certification

Job summary

One New Zealand is building an AI-enabled telco with a focus on reliability and user outcomes. We seek experienced leaders in live IT operations and SRE to drive proactive, automated service management. You will oversee large teams, governance of providers, and the adoption of AIOps to reduce toil and improve service outcomes.

Join a diverse, future-focused org that values learning, flexibility, and customer-centric delivery while shaping how AI informs service reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of large-scale Application Operations and Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• Experience managing onshore and offshore outsourced service providers.
• Strong knowledge of SRE and observability, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, logging and tracing.
• Experience applying AI/Ops, automation and ML to reduce toil and improve remediation.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, resilience and performance of live IT services, with a clear focus on customer and business outcomes.
• Lead Application Operations and SRE, building stronger service ownership, engineering accountability and continuous improvement.
• Drive AI, AIOps and automation to predict issues earlier, reduce operational toil and increase self-healing.
• Translate operational issues into engineering, testing, environment, release and platform improvements.
• Evolve the operating model toward service and value-stream ownership.
• Strengthen observability and reliability engineering with SLIs and SLOs to improve decisions.
• Manage operational risk, service continuity and disaster recovery.
• Shift from reactive support to proactive, automated, AI-led service management.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Observability

AIOps

Automation

Stakeholder management

Education

Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering/Computer Science/IT

Job description

He aha ai tātou – Why us?

At One NZ we’re not just imagining the future, we’re building it. Our purpose? A better-connected Aotearoa New Zealand.

Kia renarena te taukaea i Aotearoa New Zealand.

Our ambition? To become the most AI-enabled telco on the planet. This isn’t just about our technology, It’s about you. We’re investing in our people like never before.... empowering them to grow, lead, and shape what’s next.

He aha ai tātou – Why us?

At One NZ we’re not just imagining the future, we’re building it. Our purpose? A better-connected Aotearoa New Zealand.

Kia renarena te taukaea i Aotearoa New Zealand.

Our ambition? To become the most AI-enabled telco on the planet. This isn’t just about our technology, It’s about you. We’re investing in our people like never before.... empowering them to grow, lead, and shape what’s next.

Through our AI School, access to world-class learning platforms, or career pathways that evolve with you, we create an environment where your curiosity thrives, and your skills accelerate.

Join us and be part of something extraordinary: connect with purpose and help redefine what’s possible.

Uia mai koe te pātai, he aha te mea nui o tēnei ao? Māku koe e ki atu he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

“If you asked me, what is the greatest thing in this world, I would say it is people, it is people, it is people.”

Ko Tō Mahi – What You’ll Do

• Own the reliability, resilience and performance of live IT services, with a clear focus on customer and business outcomes.
• Lead Application Operations and SRE, building stronger service ownership, engineering accountability and continuous improvement.
• Drive AI, AIOps and automation to predict issues earlier, reduce operational toil and increase self-healing.
• Making sure operational issues don't simply get resolved — they get translated into engineering, testing, environment, release and platform improvements.
• Evolve the operating model from reactive, application-based support towards service and value-stream ownership.
• Connect what is happening in live production back into Quality, Release, NPE, Service Desk, Architecture and Engineering, so the organisation continuously learns and improves
• Strengthen observability and reliability engineering, using service health, SLIs and SLOs to improve decisions and outcomes.
• Manage operational risk, service continuity and disaster recovery, ensuring issues are visible, owned and resolved
• Transform strategic partner performance from ticket and SLA management towards automation, engineering improvement and shared service outcomes.
• Improve operational readiness, problem management and resilience so change lands safely and recurring failure is systematically engineered out.
• For us, operational excellence means moving from reactive support to a more proactive, automated and Agentic AI-led model — with fewer incidents, faster recovery, stronger ownership and better customer outcomes.

Na Tōu Rourou - What You’ll Bring

• A tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• 8–10 years’ experience in IT operations, application support, reliability engineering or service management within a large, complex technology environment.
• Proven leadership of large-scale Application Operations and Site Reliability Engineering teams in an always-on service environment.
• Experience managing onshore and offshore outsourced service providers through strong commercial governance and continual service improvement.
• Strong practical knowledge of SRE and observability, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service mapping, monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, capacity and resilience engineering.
• Demonstrated experience transforming operations from reactive support to proactive, automated and value-stream-aligned service management.
• Demonstrated leadership across major incidents, problem management, service transition, operational risk, service continuity, disaster recovery and IT service management.
• Experience applying AIOps, automation and machine learning to reduce toil, detect anomalies, correlate events and improve remediation.
• Strong influencing skills across Architecture, Engineering, Delivery, Quality Assurance, Environment Management, Cyber Security, business stakeholders and strategic partners.
• Highly developed people leadership, commercial management, communication and data-driven problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate customer and business impact into clear reliability priorities.

Nā Mātou Te Rourou – What You’ll Get

• One New Zealand is leading the way by ensuring you can have a truly balanced life. Most roles allow flexibility to work from home and flex your hours to enjoy work & whānau commitments.
• A fully subsidised Southern Cross health insurance cover for you and your family.
• Lifestyle leave, giving you the option to purchase an extra week or two of annual leave.
• Discounts on One New Zealand products, services and much more!

We are proudly Rainbow Tick certified and champion diversity of thought, perspective and background. Joining our whānau is more than starting a new job – it’s the beginning of a journey that will challenge and inspire you to play a role in something bigger.

Tū hikitia rā, tū hāpainga. Tū hāpainga, tū hikitia rā.

We stand to uplift, to support and to elevate others.