Senior Platform Engineer – AKS & Cloud Platforms

ASB Bank; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ASB Bank is seeking a Software Consultant (Platform Engineer) to join the Identity & Integration Platform Engineering team. You will lead hands-on development of AKS-based platform capabilities and reusable components that empower ASB's engineering teams to deploy securely and reliably.

You will influence platform architecture, collaborate across software and platform engineering, and help shape automation, CI/CD and IaC practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong cloud infrastructure engineering experience (Azure or AWS).
• Software development and engineering practices across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and evolve AKS platform capabilities for apps and integration workloads.
• Design, develop and support containerised services and platform components.
• Develop automation and tooling to improve deployment, configuration and operations.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Bicep and Terraform.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and workflows for platform and application delivery.
• Work across Kubernetes capabilities including networking, workload identity, policy, routing and observability.
• Contribute to API gateway and service mesh capabilities, including Kong.
• Embed secure-by-design principles across the platform and workloads.
• Improve observability, reliability and operational support of platform services.
• Provide technical leadership through design and code reviews, engineering standards and mentoring.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure engineering

Software development

Containerized apps

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

API gateways & service mesh

Kong

Secure software practices

Troubleshooting

Architectural decision making

Mentoring & leadership

Tools

Terraform

Kong

Job description

ASB Bank is seeking a Software Consultant (Platform Engineer) to join the Identity & Integration Platform Engineering team. You will lead hands-on development of AKS-based platform capabilities and reusable components that empower ASB's engineering teams to deploy securely and reliably.

You will influence platform architecture, collaborate across software and platform engineering, and help shape automation, CI/CD and IaC practices across the organization.