Senior Platform Engineer

Air New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel benefits

FlexiLeave

Learning & development

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong DevOps experience to join our DevOps Chapter. You will design scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services to empower product teams, lead CI/CD development, and champion automation and IaC practices across a multi-cloud stack.

You will collaborate with engineers, SREs, and security specialists to deliver secure, observable platforms and mentor others to grow in DevOps capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software or platform engineering with microservices and cloud-native development.
• Strong interest in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Lead CI/CD platform development across multiple applications.
• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code to improve reliability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with software engineers, SREs, and security specialists to deliver secure, observable platforms.
• Mentor engineers to grow their DevOps and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to platform strategy, tooling decisions, and technical direction.
• Support platforms such as Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, API Gateway, and Kafka.

Skills

CI/CD principles

DevSecOps

Programming languages

Cloud-native development

Collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

ECS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure DevOps

Prometheus

Grafana

API Gateway

Kafka

Job description

At Air New Zealand, we’re on a journey to reimagine and elevate our digital platforms. Cloud computing enables us to modernize and consolidate infrastructure, automate workflows, and drive next-gen innovation, all powered by a robust multi-cloud strategy across AWS and Azure.

We’re now looking for aSenior Software Engineerwith strong DevOps experience, or asoftware engineer ready to evolve into the platform engineering disciplineto join our DevOps Chapter. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in building microservices and distributed systems who’s eager to shape the future of platforms and developer experience at Air New Zealand.

The Role You’ll Play

As a senior engineer, you will:

• Design and implementscalable cloud infrastructureandplatform servicesthat empower product teams to build, deploy, and operate with speed and confidence.
• Lead CI/CD platform development, owning the build, test, and deployment systems that underpin dozens of applications.
• Championautomation and Infrastructure as Code, driving reliability, consistency, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, SREs, and security specialists to deliversecure, observable, and resilient platforms.
• Mentor and support engineersgrowing their DevOps and platform capabilities — fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
• Contribute to and influenceplatform strategy, tooling decisions, and technical directionacross the organisation.
• Support key platforms such asKubernetes (EKS),ECS,API Gateway, andKafka, helping ensure their scalability, reliability, and performance.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years’ experience in software or platform engineering, ideally with exposure tomicroservices architectureandcloud-native development.
• A strong interest inDevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure, and a desire to deepen your expertise in this space.
• Proven skills in CI/CD principles, DevSecOps practices, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Hands‑on experience withAzure DevOpstoolsets (Pipelines, Repos) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).
• Hands‑on experience with modern programming or scripting languages (Python, Java, Go, Bash, etc.)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• A collaborative and curious mindset — you thrive on solving complex problems and helping others succeed.
• A solid understanding of cloud architecture, security, and automation best practices.

Ready for take‑off?

This is your opportunity to help shape the platforms that power one of New Zealand's most recognised brands. You'll work with modern cloud technologies, solve meaningful engineering challenges, and be part of a collaborative team that values curiosity, continuous learning, and innovation. If you're excited by the opportunity to grow your platform engineering expertise while making a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work. As part of Air New Zealand, you'll enjoy benefits including generous staff travel, the opportunity to purchase up to four additional weeks of FlexiLeave each year, ongoing learning and development opportunities, and access to a wide range of employee discounts and wellbeing support.

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

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