Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Geospatial & Maritime Apps

Land Information New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing allowance

Additional leave

Reduced health insurance premiums

Diversity groups and networks

Parental leave top up

Four weeks and three days annual leave

Job summary

Land Information New Zealand in Wellington seeks a Senior Developer to own cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, migrating hydrographic systems to AWS, building scalable, secure cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines. You will lead releases, perform production incident investigations, mentor colleagues, and collaborate across squads to deliver bathymetric data processing, nautical charts, and ENCs.

This role supports the MDT programme and future hydrographic applications; strong dev, cloud,

Qualifications

• Senior-level development experience in an enabling/platform role, supporting AWS infrastructure and application delivery for a hydrographic/geospatial squad.
• Experience applying modern software engineering practices, including modular design, automated testing, secure coding, dependency management, observability, cost optimisation and performance optimisation.
• Strong experience designing, building and maintaining production applications hosted on AWS, including backend services, APIs, data-processing workflows and integrations.
• Experience designing and working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimisation and application integration.
• Experience building and maintaining IaC using AWS CDK (TypeScript), and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Experience with AWS services relevant to our stack (RDS/PostgreSQL, S3, Docker, AppStream) including designing and operating distributed and serverless AWS architectures.
• Experience leading code reviews and setting standards for maintainable code across the team.
• Experience independently owning release management, production incident investigation and resolution, and change management.
• Scripting/automation experience (Bash, PowerShell, Python) to support operational and data workflows.
• Experience applying security-by-design principles across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and application development.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence technical direction.
• Collaborative and adaptive mindset – willing to share information and comfortable to both propose and consider new ideas.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud infrastructure development and DevOps practices for hydrographic/geospatial squad.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, release management and deployment workflows.
• Mentor and peer-review other developers’ work; drive security and reliability across systems.
• Partner with squads to migrate hydrographic systems to a secure, scalable AWS platform.
• Support production operations, incident investigation and continuous improvement of workflows.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

AWS platform engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Release management

Production incident handling

Python

Bash

PowerShell

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

AWS CDK

PostgreSQL

Docker

Observability

Security-by-design

Communication

Leadership/mentoring

GIS/Geospatial knowledge (advantage)

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Docker

AppStream

S3

RDS/PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

TypeScript

Job description

Land Information New Zealand in Wellington seeks a Senior Developer to own cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, migrating hydrographic systems to AWS, building scalable, secure cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines. You will lead releases, perform production incident investigations, mentor colleagues, and collaborate across squads to deliver bathymetric data processing, nautical charts, and ENCs.

This role supports the MDT programme and future hydrographic applications; strong dev, cloud,