Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, IaC & CI/CD Leader

Westpac New Zealand Limited; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday + wellbeing leave

Additional leave options

Banking benefits

Growth opportunities

Recognition program

School holiday subsidy

Volunteer days

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand Limited is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platform services. You will leverage cloud technologies, IaC, and CI/CD practices to enable product teams to deliver high-quality applications with reliability and efficiency.

You will promote Site Reliability Engineering principles, drive automation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve platform performance, security, and developer experience, while mentoring peers

Qualifications

• Experience with high-scale environments and SRE practices.
• Strong Linux administration skills and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure, scalable platform services.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring and resilience.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

SRE practices

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Linux administration

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & observability

Security engineering practices

Agentic AI awareness

Problem solving

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Deployment techniques evaluation

Networking

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

Jenkins

Elastic

Splunk

Prometheus

Dynatrace

Job description

Westpac New Zealand Limited is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platform services. You will leverage cloud technologies, IaC, and CI/CD practices to enable product teams to deliver high-quality applications with reliability and efficiency.

You will promote Site Reliability Engineering principles, drive automation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve platform performance, security, and developer experience, while mentoring peers