Senior DevOps Engineer

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

• 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 24/7 enterprise PaaS, containerisation, security, monitoring, observability
• Skilled in vendor management, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, problem-solving
• Wellington Based, NZ Citizenship required

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 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.

Experience

5 years

Skills

Experienced Azure DevOps Engineer

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree

We actively encourage applications from any background.

education

Bachelor Degree&ICT