Senior Director, Application Platforms & Operations

Transpower; Wellington; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Transpower in New Zealand is seeking a Head of Application Platforms and Operations to lead operational excellence across critical and enterprise applications and platforms, ensuring high availability and security while guiding end-to-end lifecycle delivery.

You’ll oversee 24x7 systems, drive DevOps maturity, and provide technical governance for development, integration and migrations, building inclusive teams and partnering with IST and senior stakeholders to lift delivery, reliability and

Qualifications

• Significant IT leadership experience in complex software delivery and enterprise platforms.
• Proven ability to lead managers and senior technical specialists.
• Strong delivery governance, quality assurance and lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing DevOps practices, automation and observability.
• Commercial accountability including budgeting and vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational excellence across mission-critical applications and platforms.
• Build inclusive, high-performing teams across application operations and platform engineering.
• Drive monitoring, disaster recovery and high-availability practices.
• Provide governance for development, integration and lifecycle refresh projects.
• Partner with IST and business stakeholders to strengthen DevOps and service reliability.
• Oversee 24x7 operations and enterprise SaaS platforms.

Skills

IT leadership

Application platforms

DevOps

OpenShift

CI/CD

Monitoring/observability

Security

Vendor management

Budgeting/financial accountability

Team leadership

Job description

Transpower in New Zealand is seeking a Head of Application Platforms and Operations to lead operational excellence across critical and enterprise applications and platforms, ensuring high availability and security while guiding end-to-end lifecycle delivery.

You’ll oversee 24x7 systems, drive DevOps maturity, and provide technical governance for development, integration and migrations, building inclusive teams and partnering with IST and senior stakeholders to lift delivery, reliability and