Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - 24/7 PaaS & Platform Lead

Randstad New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad New Zealand in Wellington is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support and modernise a critical, high-availability platform delivering essential public services 24/7 nationwide and internationally. This role requires strong hands-on technical execution alongside strategic leadership.

You will take ownership of cloud platform engineering, pro-code development, and vendor integrations while establishing best practices across the team, driving reliability, security, and scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree required.
• Senior-level DevOps experience with Azure.
• Proven ability to manage vendor relationships and mentor peers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Azure platform engineering, infrastructure provisioning, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and maintain robust CI/CD, automation tooling, and IaC solutions.
• Deliver high-availability integration architecture, API designs, and enterprise cloud connections.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and proactive incident detection.
• Drive platform reliability, security best practices, cost management, and governance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineering staff.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

Containerisation

Vendor management

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Job description

Randstad New Zealand in Wellington is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support and modernise a critical, high-availability platform delivering essential public services 24/7 nationwide and internationally. This role requires strong hands-on technical execution alongside strategic leadership.

You will take ownership of cloud platform engineering, pro-code development, and vendor integrations while establishing best practices across the team, driving reliability, security, and scalable