Senior Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Automation & Cloud

ASB Bank; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental and flexible leave

Wellbeing initiatives

Customisable benefits

Job summary

ASB Bank is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer in Auckland to strengthen reliability, security and resilience across customer-facing platforms. The role spans Windows/Linux, automation and observability with cross-squad impact.

You will join the SIS Squad within Customer Tribe, driving automation, CI/CD and proactive reliability initiatives while supporting a predominantly on-premises environment with growing cloud adoption.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or related discipline.
• Strong Windows and Linux server-administration experience in enterprise-scale environments.
• Expertise in PowerShell and Python scripting with automation experience.
• Strong vulnerability-management and patching experience.
• Experience supporting critical production systems within complex enterprise environments.
• Azure cloud experience and exposure to hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, using Git-based source control and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong monitoring, observability and operational-support experience.
• Experience driving reliability or SRE-focused initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimise Windows and Linux server environments.
• Drive vulnerability remediation and patching through automation.
• Support reliable, secure services across Customer Tribe.
• Design and implement operational tooling, monitoring, alerting and observability solutions.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform and infrastructure delivery.
• Identify operational risks and implement preventive controls.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Develop automation to improve platform management and security.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to promote SRE principles.
• Create and maintain runbooks and operational procedures.
• Influence platform strategy to enhance reliability and reduce effort.
• Collaborate across squads to solve complex platform challenges.
• Participate in on-call support when required.

Skills

Platform engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Windows administration

Linux administration

PowerShell

Python scripting

CI/CD

Observability

Automation

Azure cloud

Kubernetes / AKS

Ansible

Vulnerability management

Tools

Azure

AKS

Kubernetes

Ansible

Git-based source control

CI/CD tooling

PowerShell

Python

Job description

ASB Bank is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer in Auckland to strengthen reliability, security and resilience across customer-facing platforms. The role spans Windows/Linux, automation and observability with cross-squad impact.

You will join the SIS Squad within Customer Tribe, driving automation, CI/CD and proactive reliability initiatives while supporting a predominantly on-premises environment with growing cloud adoption.