Senior Platform Engineer

H2R Consulting; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

H2R Consulting – Wellington Central, North Island is partnering with a major NZ organisation to appoint an experienced Senior Platform Engineer. You will design, build and maintain secure, scalable platform services, drive automation, and advance CI/CD and GitOps practices across cloud and infrastructure.

In this hands-on role you will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, collaborate with vendors and stakeholders, and contribute to a strong engineering culture while improving tooling,

Qualifications

• Strong background in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps in complex environments.
• Experience with modern automation and container technologies, comfortable in fast-paced engineering.
• Hands-on with OpenShift and modern CI/CD/GitOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance secure, scalable, resilient platform and infrastructure solutions.
• Improve automation across environments and deployment processes.
• Build and support modern CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to incident management and service reliability initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to peers.
• Collaborate with vendors and stakeholders to deliver platform outcomes.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement across tooling, processes and performance.

Skills

OpenShift

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

GitOps

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Communication

Tools

Openshift

Tekton Pipelines

Argo CD

Openshift GitOps

Openshift ACM policies

Openshift Operators

Red Hat Service Mesh

MetalLB

Terraform

OpenTofu

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

Job description

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H2R Consulting – Wellington Central, North Island

We're working with a large, well-established New Zealand organisation that supports a critical national service and is investing heavily in the modernisation of its technology platforms. As part of this journey, they're looking to add an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to their team.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys being hands-on while also helping shape technical direction. You'll play a key role in building and maintaining reliable platform services, improving automation, driving operational excellence, and supporting the ongoing evolution of cloud and infrastructure capabilities.

Your day to day will include :

• Designing and enhancing platform and infrastructure solutions that are secure, scalable, and resilient
• Improving automation across environments and deployment processes
• Building and supporting modern CI/CD and GitOps practices
• Working closely with development teams to improve software delivery and operational efficiency
• Troubleshooting production issues and contributing to incident management and service reliability initiatives
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring colleagues, and promoting engineering best practices
• Collaborating with vendors, technical teams, and business stakeholders to deliver platform outcomes
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement across tooling, processes, and performance

We're working with a large, well-established New Zealand organisation that supports a critical national service and is investing heavily in the modernisation of its technology platforms. As part of this journey, they're looking to add an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to their team.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys being hands-on while also helping shape technical direction. You'll play a key role in building and maintaining reliable platform services, improving automation, driving operational excellence, and supporting the ongoing evolution of cloud and infrastructure capabilities.

Your day to day will include :

• Designing and enhancing platform and infrastructure solutions that are secure, scalable, and resilient
• Improving automation across environments and deployment processes
• Building and supporting modern CI/CD and GitOps practices
• Working closely with development teams to improve software delivery and operational efficiency
• Troubleshooting production issues and contributing to incident management and service reliability initiatives
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring colleagues, and promoting engineering best practices
• Collaborating with vendors, technical teams, and business stakeholders to deliver platform outcomes
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement across tooling, processes, and performance

Background required :

You'll bring a strong background in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps within complex environments. The ideal candidate will have experience working with modern automation and container technologies and be comfortable operating in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Key experience :

• Openshift is a must have for this role including: Tekton/Openshift Pipelines, ArgoCD/Openshift gitops, Openshift ACM policies, Openshift Operators, Red Hat Service Mesh, MetalLB
• Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, or similar
• CI/CD and GitOps tooling including technologies such as Jenkins, Argo CD, Tekton, or equivalent
• Monitoring, observability, and logging solutions
• Security-focused platform engineering practices
• Source control and release management using Git
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical decision-making
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to high-performing technical teams

You will be joining an organisation with a strong sense of purpose, a collaborative culture, and a significant technology roadmap ahead. You'll have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects, contribute to modern engineering practices, and help shape the future direction of the platform environment.

Wellington office based role.