Platform Engineer

Westpac Bank; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks standard holiday + 5 wellbeing

Additional purchased leave options up

Banking benefits, insurance discounts

Growth and development

Recognition

School holiday subsidy

2 Volunteer days

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, operate, and continuously improve secure, scalable technology platforms supporting essential banking services. You will partner with architects, engineers, and security teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities that boost availability and customer outcomes.

You will contribute to platform strategy, automation, lifecycle management, and modern engineering practices, ensuring services remain secure and performant.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise technology platforms and services.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering, infrastructure, application hosting, or integration technologies.
• Knowledge of modern architectural patterns including APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• Experience with distributed systems, platform architectures, and API gateway management such as Kong, API Connect, DataPower, Anypoint or equivalent.
• Experience working with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of security and identity controls, including authentication, authorisation, encryption, and certificate management.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and operational tooling such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across distributed environments.
• Experience delivering platform upgrades, migrations, and technology lifecycle initiatives with minimal customer or business impact.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and operational support practices.
• Experience driving automation, standardisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A focus on reliability, service resilience, operational excellence, and delivering positive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate and continuously improve secure, resilient, scalable technology platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable platform capabilities.
• Contribute to platform strategy, automation, lifecycle management and modern engineering practices.

Skills

Platform engineering

Architectures

DevOps

Stakeholder engagement

Reliability

CI/CD

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Automation

Security awareness

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kong

API Connect

DataPower

Anypoint

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

As a Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, operating, and continuously improving secure, resilient, and scalable technology platforms that support critical banking services.

This is an opportunity to work across a complex enterprise technology landscape, partnering with architects, engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable platform capabilities that improve service availability, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes.

You will contribute to platform strategy, automation, lifecycle management, operational excellence, and the adoption of modern engineering practices, ensuring platform services remain secure, performant, and aligned with business needs.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise technology platforms and services.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering, infrastructure, application hosting, or integration technologies.
• Knowledge of modern architectural patterns including APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• Experience with distributed systems, platform architectures, and API gateway management such as Kong, API Connect, DataPower, Anypoint or equivalent.
• Experience working with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of security and identity controls, including authentication, authorisation, encryption, and certificate management.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and operational tooling such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across distributed environments.
• Experience delivering platform upgrades, migrations, and technology lifecycle initiatives with minimal customer or business impact.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and operational support practices.
• Experience driving automation, standardisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A focus on reliability, service resilience, operational excellence, and delivering positive business outcomes.

In addition to immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, you'll receive some great job perks and benefits including:

• 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
• Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
• Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
• Growth and development – we provide opportunities for development and promote internal mobility
• Recognition - we recognise and reward our star performers
• School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
• 2 Volunteer days per year

Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation

At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.

What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!

The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us – we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodiverse, have chronic health conditions or disabilities – your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.