Senior Platform Engineer | 1128323

H2R; Wellington; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora New Zealand is collaborating with a major New Zealand organisation to recruit a Senior Platform Engineer. The role focuses on designing and maintaining reliable platform services, driving automation, and advancing cloud and infrastructure capabilities.

You will lead technical direction, mentor peers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve delivery and reliability in a fast-paced environment. Wellington-based office role with direct stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps in complex environments.
• Experience with automation and container technologies.
• Strong communication and influencing technical decisions.
• Mentoring engineers and contributing to high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Mentoring engineers

Strong communication

Platform engineering

Tools

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Argo CD

Tekton

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

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
• 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.

Please call Maree Hayes on [phone] for further information.