Senior Engineer, DevOps & Incident Leader

New Zealand Government; Auckland; On-site; NZD 112,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance or protection package

Critical illness protection

Discounted insurances

Will services

Savings schemes

Mortgage guidance

Job summary

New Zealand Government, via the NZDF context, seeks an experienced Senior Engineer to provide technical leadership in a DevOps environment. You will escalate incidents, participate in major incident resolution, and ensure architectural alignment with the technology strategy.

Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential, and on-call duties are required after training. The role emphasizes security clearances and rigorous vetting, with a salary range reflecting skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Senior Engineer with proven leadership in a DevOps environment.
• Ability to lead in ambiguous environments and make sound technical decisions.
• Strong knowledge of Windows and UNIX/Linux platforms, virtualization, and Citrix.
• Experience with databases (Sybase, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and networking.
• Understanding of SDLC and SAFe agile practices.
• Experience with IT change, configuration and capacity management in an agile context.
• Proven collaboration and excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and act as escalation point for incidents and changes.
• Lead and support resolution of major incidents and operational issues.
• Maintain understanding of current and future architecture to align with strategy.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver shared outcomes.
• Participate in on-call roster and be available for duty when required.

Skills

Windows & UNIX platforms

Virtualisation

Citrix technologies

Networking

SDLC / Agile

SAFe

Change management

Automation tooling

Tools

Citrix

Sybase

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Ansible

Git

Nexus

Job description

New Zealand Government, via the NZDF context, seeks an experienced Senior Engineer to provide technical leadership in a DevOps environment. You will escalate incidents, participate in major incident resolution, and ensure architectural alignment with the technology strategy.

Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential, and on-call duties are required after training. The role emphasizes security clearances and rigorous vetting, with a salary range reflecting skills and experience.