Senior Database Administrator - Cloud & Automation Lead

Nz Qualifications Authority; Wellington; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join the Information Services team in Wellington. The role focuses on managing development, test, and production databases, while ensuring availability, performance, and reliability across environments.

You will work with AWS services (RDS) and IaC tooling (Terraform, CDK) and collaborate with application owners to deploy new solutions following best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing development, testing, and production databases.
• Experience with AWS Cloud services and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Ability to collaborate with application owners and IS teams.

Responsibilities

• Management of development, test, and production databases
• Supporting project and operational application development teams
• Carrying out testing and tuning in databases for multiple environments
• Ensuring production applications meet availability, reliability, and performance targets
• Working within project teams to ensure new applications and services are deployed according to good practices and can be supported by operational teams
• Providing access to high-quality data and robust data sources to key business areas
• Working with AWS Cloud services, including RDS, IaC (Terraform, CDK) and Python-based automation
• Contributing to cloud-native solution design and NZQA's cloud platform evolution
• Leveraging IaC approaches to support deployment and management of database and platform services
• Azure experience is welcomed and considered an advantage

Skills

SQL

Database administration

AWS

Terraform

Python scripting

Tools

RDS

Terraform

CDK

Python automation

Job description

New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join the Information Services team in Wellington. The role focuses on managing development, test, and production databases, while ensuring availability, performance, and reliability across environments.

You will work with AWS services (RDS) and IaC tooling (Terraform, CDK) and collaborate with application owners to deploy new solutions following best practices.