Chapter Lead – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
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Job Location:
Auckland - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Kia ora!
At Air New Zealand were reimagining how technology powers our journey building platforms that enable innovation speed and resilience at scale. Our multi-cloud strategy across AWS and Azure is the backbone of our digital transformation helping us modernise systems automate workflows and deliver exceptional experiences for our customers and teams.
As we continue this evolution were looking for a Chapter Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to provide strategic leadership and technical excellence within our Platform Engineering space. This is a unique opportunity to shape how we build operate and scale reliable high-performing systems across the airline while empowering talented engineers to grow and succeed.
Youll lead a community of skilled SREs fostering a culture of collaboration learning and continuous improvement. Your leadership will ensure our platforms are designed for productivity resilience observability and performance while your technical acumen will guide Air New Zealands digital future.
The Role Youll Play
As a Chapter Lead SRE you will:
- Provide strategic and people leadership across the SRE Chapter developing technical capability and supporting career growth.
- Set direction and best practices for reliability engineering automation and operational excellence.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement using data and metrics to enhance system reliability and customer experience.
- Partner with Product Security and Architecture leaders to align reliability goals with business and platform strategy.
- Drive adoption of platform thinking Infrastructure as Code continuous delivery observability and service-level objectives across engineering teams.
- Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives that improve availability scalability and performance.
- Balance hands-on technical engagement with coaching and mentoring to build strong empowered teams.
What Youll Bring
- Proven leadership experience within a Site Reliability Platform or Software Engineering environment.
- Strong technical expertise in deployment pipelines cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure) Kubernetes Terraform automation and observability tooling.
- A track record of leading and growing engineering teams through mentoring coaching and technical excellence.
- Deep understanding of the principles of internal self-service platforms continuous delivery and resilience.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to bridge technical and business priorities.
- A growth mindset fostering inclusion innovation and continuous improvement within your teams.
If you meet the majority of the criteria and are excited by the opportunity wed love to hear from you.
Whats in it for you
We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work including:
- Discounted flights for you and your whānau.
- Flexile Leave that lets you purchase up to four extra weeks off each year.
- Access to medical cover options and wellbeing resources including our Employee Assistance Programme.
- A learning culture that supports your next step not just your current role.
- Generous parental leave and superannuation contributions.
Ready for Take-off
If youre ready to apply your leadership technical expertise and strategic thinking to shape the next chapter of Air New Zealands reliability engineering journey wed love to hear from you. Join us and help define what exceptional reliability leadership looks like at Air New Zealand.
Additional Information :
At Air New Zealand we are proudly committed to diversity equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds including those with a disability additional health and mental health needs and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.
If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina.
Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near seize them and make them your reality.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
