Site Reliability Engineer

Tribe Group; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks annual leave

10 days sick leave (wellbeing days)

Wellbeing program

Volunteer/ birthday/ milestone leave

Parental leave + long service

Travel perks & insurance discounts

Public transport subsidy

Job summary

Tribe Group is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Auckland to drive reliability, performance and operational maturity for a modern cloud-native platform. You will own initiatives, collaborate with software engineering teams, and contribute to automation, CI/CD pipelines and IaC practices.

The role involves on-call responsibilities and a hands-on approach to improve availability, latency and efficiency across the platform, with opportunities to influence architectural decisions and security

Qualifications

• Strong AWS experience in production environments (IaaS/PaaS).
• Kubernetes experience, ideally EKS.
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform; CloudFormation/Ansible also useful.
• CI/CD and GitOps deployment patterns.
• Containerisation with Docker.
• Linux lifecycle management in cloud environments (patching, security, networking).
• Observability including monitoring, alerting, incident response.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

Terraform

CI/CD / GitOps

Docker

Linux in cloud

Observability & incident response

On-call readiness

Tools

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

About The Opportunity

We are partnering with a high performing digital product organisation to appoint a Site Reliability Engineer in Auckland.

This is a pivotal, hands on role sitting at the centre of their cloud-native journey. You will be the go to SRE, reporting to the CTO and working closely with a collaborative Digital team to lift reliability, performance and operational maturity across a modern platform.

Day to day, you will use code, automation and smarter processes to improve availability, latency, efficiency, monitoring, incident response and capacity planning. Longer term, you will help build a hyper-scalable platform and strengthen continuous integration and configuration-as-code practices.

This position includes participation in an on call roster as part of the overall salary package.

What You’ll Bring

You are a practical, proactive engineer who enjoys owning outcomes and continuously improving how platforms run in production.

Core Experience

• Strong AWS experience (production), ideally across IaaS and PaaS services
• Kubernetes, ideally EKS
• Infrastructure as code, especially Terraform (CloudFormation and Ansible also useful)
• CI/CD and GitOps-style deployment patterns
• Containerisation with Docker
• Linux lifecycle experience in cloud environments (images/containers, patching, baseline security, networking fundamentals)
• Observability: monitoring, alerting, APM, incident response and post-incident improvement

Ways of Working

• Comfortable taking ownership and working independently (you can spot the problem, design the fix, and ship it)
• Confident partnering with software engineers on build, test and deployment pipelines
• Able to contribute to security posture (IAM, policies, compliance controls and regular assessments)
• Strong documentation habits and a continuous improvement mindset

Nice to Have

• AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner or beyond)
• Networking knowledge (DNS, load balancing, CDN, security)
• Bash scripting and deeper Linux administration
• Understanding of database architectures in cloud-native environments

What’s on Offer

• A rare opportunity to set the SRE standard in an organisation investing in cloud maturity
• High-impact role with direct access to leadership and influence across engineering practices
• Broad scope across reliability, automation, observability, security and performance
• Supportive, collaborative team environment and meaningful technical ownership
• Auckland-based permanent position

Additional Benefits

• 4 weeks annual leave
• 10 days sick leave, including 2 wellbeing days (available from day one)
• Extra leave: 1 volunteer day, birthday leave, and milestone leave (wedding, birth/adoption)
• Enhanced parental leave plus long service leave
• Subsidised Southern Cross health
• 24/7 EAP support for you and your family, plus wellbeing initiatives and social events
• Travel perks: free travel insurance, discounts across travel brands
• Commuting support: 50% public transport subsidy and car parking contribution up to $15/day