Senior Platform Engineer - Connected Aircraft & Cloud Ops

Airnewzealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join TechOps Performance Tribe in the Connected Aircraft squad. You will engineer secure Windows platforms, manage AWS/hybrid infra, and drive automation, security, and operational readiness across Boeing and Airbus fleets.

In this role you will build CI/CD pipelines, maintain PKI and TLS, and lead incident response in a 24/7 environment. Strong scripting in PowerShell/Python and experience with Azure DevOps are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Significant senior platform, infrastructure, cloud engineering experience with strong operational ownership and troubleshooting capability.
• Strong hands-on Windows Server engineering and business-critical application support experience.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support secure, reliable Windows platforms, AWS and hybrid infrastructure for Connected Aircraft applications and associated ground systems, using Infrastructure as Code and secure engineering practices.
• Provide Level 2 and Level 3 support for OEM Ground Support Equipment (GSE), including aircraft maintenance laptops, device configuration, application integration, troubleshooting and lifecycle management.
• Build and improve CI/CD, source control, automated testing and repeatable deployment practices for infrastructure, configuration and application changes.
• Engineer and maintain security and identity infrastructure including PKI, certificate lifecycle management, TLS, access controls and secure connectivity.
• Develop PowerShell, Python, Shell or similar automation to reduce manual work and improve platform reliability, consistency and supportability.
• Own monitoring, observability, incident response, problem management and production readiness for business-critical services in a 24/7 environment, including participation in an on-call roster.
• Lead testing, validation and production deployment of aircraft application and platform changes, and work across Engineering, Digital and vendor partners to troubleshoot complex issues through to resolution.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring, contributing to platform engineering practices that strengthen resilience, automation and service outcomes.

Skills

Platform engineering

Windows Server

AWS

PKI

Active Directory

Identity management

Terraform

CloudFormation

PowerShell

Python

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Networking fundamentals

DNS/DHCP/Firewalls

Splunk

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Azure DevOps

Splunk

Job description

Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join TechOps Performance Tribe in the Connected Aircraft squad. You will engineer secure Windows platforms, manage AWS/hybrid infra, and drive automation, security, and operational readiness across Boeing and Airbus fleets.

In this role you will build CI/CD pipelines, maintain PKI and TLS, and lead incident response in a 24/7 environment. Strong scripting in PowerShell/Python and experience with Azure DevOps are highly valued.