Senior Platform Engineer: Automate, Scale & Secure

Westpac New Zealand Ltd; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks holiday + 5 wellbeing days

Additional leave options up to 4 weeks

Banking benefits

Growth and internal mobility

Recognition program

School holiday subsidy

2 Volunteer days

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand Ltd is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support, modernise and improve our critical technology platforms. You’ll work across platform engineering, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and production support to build reliable, secure and scalable platforms for application teams.

You’ll bring strong Windows and Linux administration, hands-on DevOps with Ansible and Terraform, and a proactive approach to security, monitoring and incident response.

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering experience across Windows and Linux.
• Hands-on DevOps with CI/CD, automation and engineering practices.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell.
• Experience supporting production platforms and incident response.
• Solid troubleshooting and security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and support enterprise infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop automation to improve provisioning, deployment and operations.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Support Windows and Linux-based platforms across environments.
• Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure and application integration issues.
• Work with workload automation and scheduling tools.
• Support production systems, respond to incidents and remediate issues.
• Contribute to platform modernisation, security uplift and continuous improvement.
• Enhance monitoring and observability using relevant tools.

Skills

Windows administration

Linux administration

CI/CD

Automation

DevOps engineering

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

Production platforms

Troubleshooting

Security practices

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

VMware

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Westpac New Zealand Ltd is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support, modernise and improve our critical technology platforms. You’ll work across platform engineering, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and production support to build reliable, secure and scalable platforms for application teams.

You’ll bring strong Windows and Linux administration, hands-on DevOps with Ansible and Terraform, and a proactive approach to security, monitoring and incident response.