Platform Engineer: Build Resilient, Cloud-Native Platforms

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

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.