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

Westpac New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks standard holiday + 5 wellbeing

Additional leave options up to 4 weeks

Banking benefits, insurance discounts,

Growth and development opportunities

Recognition of performance

School holiday subsidy

2 Volunteer days per year

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platform solutions. You will drive automation for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operations while applying Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure reliability and performance.

You will mentor engineers, help define standards, and explore emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-scale environments with SRE practices.
• Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Ability to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability tools (Elastic, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace).
• Cloud certifications are advantageous.
• Knowledge of security engineering practices and automating compliance.
• Knowledge of Agentic AI is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, scalable platform services.
• Lead automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
• Promote Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve stability and performance.
• Mentor engineers, help set engineering standards, and evaluate new technologies.

Skills

SRE practices

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & observability

Security engineering

Agentic AI

Troubleshooting

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Deployment strategy

Networking

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

Elastic

Splunk

Prometheus

Dynatrace

Job description

Westpac New Zealand is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platform solutions. You will drive automation for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operations while applying Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure reliability and performance.

You will mentor engineers, help define standards, and explore emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities and developer productivity.