senior devops engineer

Randstad Digital New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital New Zealand is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and modernise a high-availability platform delivering essential public services. You will drive cloud platform engineering, pro-code development, and vendor integrations while establishing best practices across the team.

The role requires hands-on execution and strategic leadership, including designing robust CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and secure cloud architectures.

Qualifications

• Requires 5+ years of experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer or similar.
• Experience in 24/7 enterprise PaaS environments, with strong security and monitoring.
• Proven ability to lead cloud platform engineering and vendor engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead Azure platform engineering and infrastructure provisioning.
• Design and maintain CI/CD, automation tooling, and IaC solutions.
• Deliver high-availability integration architecture and API designs.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and incident detection using cloud-native tools.
• Drive platform reliability, security best practices, and cost governance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor peer engineers.

Skills

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

IaC (Bicep/Terraform)

C# development

Python development

Security & monitoring

Vendor management

Mentoring

24/7 enterprise PaaS

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

Azure

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support and modernise a critical, high-availability platform delivering essential public services 24/7 nationwide and internationally. This position 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Azure platform engineering, infrastructure provisioning, and continuous automated deployment pipelines.
• Design and maintain robust CI/CD, automation tooling, and infrastructure as code solutions.
• Deliver high-availability integration architecture, API designs, and enterprise cloud service connections.
• Implement comprehensive observability, monitoring, and proactive incident detection using cloud-native tools.
• Drive platform reliability, security best practices, cost management, and system governance standards.
• Provide technical leadership, guide external vendor deliverables, and mentor peer engineering staff.

Skills & Experience

• Strong 24/7 enterprise PaaS, containerisation, security, monitoring, observability
• Skilled in vendor management, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, problem-solving
• Expert Azure Platform, DevOps, Bicep/Terraform, CI/CD, C#, Python development
• Strong Azure platform delivery using Azure DevOps, infrastructure as code (Bicep/Terraform), and cloud-native automation.
• Hands-on development proficiency in C#, Python, or equivalent modern languages.
• Strong implementation of cloud security practices, proactive system monitoring, and application observability frameworks.
• Proven background operating, containerising, and supporting highly integrated 24/7 enterprise applications and PaaS offerings.
• Strong communication skills to manage key vendors and engage non-technical stakeholders
• Solutions-focused mindset dedicated to solving complex technical problems, sharing knowledge, and mentoring team members.
• Wellington Based, NZ Citizenship required
• 5 years
• Experienced Azure DevOps Engineer
• Bachelor Degree

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.

• Please note, we can only consider applicants that are legally entitled to work in New Zealand at the time of application.