Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Job Location:
Wellington - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
$ 131659 - 146288
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
- Do you have a passion for automation
- Work in agile teams using the latest technologies
- GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Integration automation and Azure experience preferred
- Full time permanent position - Auckland or Wellington or Palmerston North location
Te Whiwhinga mahi The opportunity
The purpose of this role is to work alongside others to define the best practices of your craft whilst working with teams to improve the reliability and observability of our systems and also improving development and delivery pipelines across NZTAs complex technology estate.
You will be working alongside Software Developers Business Analysts Product Owners Technology Leadership Business Owners QA Engineers Vendors and Suppliers. You should be able to select best solutions in cloud environments based on best practices.
We are looking for someone with someone who has excellent analytical ability and is a logical problem solver with clear communication skills. Integration automation and Azure experience preferred.
View the position description here.
We are seeking to appoint at a salary between $131659 and $146288 of band commensurate to skills and experience.
Ko koe tēnei About you
To be successful in this role you will have:
- The ability to understand on how solutions are architected and integrated internally and with external third-party software.
- Significant understanding of CI/CD
- Significant experience creating pipelines in a CI/CD platform (e.g. GitHub ADO)
- Significant experience in managing job artefacts
- Significant experience in running large systems and infrastructure
- Significant experience with Monitoring platforms (e.g. Azure Monitor GCP Cloud Monitoring)
- Significant experience with observability platforms (e.g. Azure Application Insights Grafana)
- Significant experience in Alerting systems (e.g. Opsgenie PagerDuty)
- Significant experience in IaC tools (e.g. Terraform)
- Significant experience in working with SLOs SLI and SLAs
- Significant experience in working with at least one of the major cloud providers Azure preferred
- Significant experience working with Site Reliability Engineering concepts
- Tertiary level qualification in relevant subject or equivalent experience
You will demonstrate knowledge of or a willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori. You will also have knowledge of or a willingness to gain an appreciation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as it applies in the public service.
Mō mātou About Us
Te Aukaha Digital strengthens Waka Kotahi through supporting our people and delivering future-focussed solutions. We enable digital change and provide quality data information and security services.
The Technology group implements supports and maintains digital capability for NZTA. Our teams design and deliver new digital initiatives that use data and information smartly so we can keep pace with digital change in all areas of the land transport addition our teams look after the digital needs of NZTA employees to perform their functions and manage information effectively and efficiently and in accordance with all legislative and Government requirements.
Ka whiwhi koe i te aha What you will get in return
You will work in a high performing team within our Engineering Chapter and can take advantage of the following benefits.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Flexible working arrangements including remote/hybrid options - role dependant.
- Along with our otherbenefitswe also have 5 weeks annual leave and an Income Protection and Critical illness Insurance scheme available for all permanent employees.
Ready to take the next step in your career and join our Engineering Chapter. Wed love to hear from you. Apply today!
Rā Katinga Applications close:
4 November 2025For further information email:
To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.
Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
