Senior Cloud Database Engineer

New Zealand Government Joba; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NZ Qualifications Authority in Wellington is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our Systems Team within the Information Services group. The role focuses on managing development, test, and production databases, supporting application development, and ensuring availability and performance across environments.

Key responsibilities include tuning, IaC with Terraform/CDK, AWS RDS, and Python-based automation.

Qualifications

• Experience building and administering multiple environments from a database perspective.
• Strong scripting skills and ability to automate processes.
• Customer-focused with detail-oriented work approach and calm under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Manage development, test, and production databases.
• Support project and operational teams with database needs.
• Test and tune databases across environments for performance and reliability.
• Ensure production applications meet availability targets and SLAs.
• Collaborate with project teams to deploy new applications and services.
• Provide access to high-quality data for key business areas.

Skills

Database administration

SQL tuning

AWS

Terraform

CDK

Python scripting

DevSecOps

Tools

RDS

Terraform

CDK

Python

Job description

NZ Qualifications Authority in Wellington is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our Systems Team within the Information Services group. The role focuses on managing development, test, and production databases, supporting application development, and ensuring availability and performance across environments.

Key responsibilities include tuning, IaC with Terraform/CDK, AWS RDS, and Python-based automation.