Dev Ops Lead – Wellington!!
- Based at Royal NZ Police College Porirua
- Police Employee
- Permanent/ Full Time
- NAV
- JR 5143723
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Mō te tūnga | About the role
The DevOps Lead is a pivotal role responsible for guiding and overseeing the implementation of DevOps practices within the organization. This includes developing and maintaining DevOps processes, governance structures, and policies, ensuring they align with industry standards and best practices. The DevOps Lead will monitor and optimize performance, integrating these practices across the development lifecycle. A key part of this role is to provide leadership and support to DevOps Enablement Engineers, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and innovation. The DevOps Lead will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, such as development, quality analysts, change management, incident response, security, and operations teams, as well as engage with senior management to align DevOps strategies with organizational goals.
Key Accountabilities:
- Lead DevOps practices, ensuring safe, secure and efficient CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Mentor and develop team capabilities, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align DevOps strategies with organizational goals.
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues and integrate security best practices into all processes.
- Drive adoption of modern tools and methodologies, staying head of industry trends to optimize delivery.
He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring
Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
- Demonstrate proven expertise in DevOps practices, tools and cloud platforms.
- Exhibit strong leadership and collaboration skills with the ability to coach teams, drive transformational change and integrate DevOps practices across development, security, and operations.
- Showcase strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with experience analysing complex issues and implementing effective solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related field with advanced certifications in DevOps, cloud technologies or security (desirable)
This role is set at Strategic Leader level, this means your key purpose is “to lead the strategy, Our Business, and enable our people to deliver it”.
To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser:
https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/02-2025/devops_lead.pdf
Mo tātou | About us
New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government’s largest front-line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over New Zealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas.
Your development is highly valued at NZ Police. Our employees enjoy significant investment in their development not only at an individual level, but also at the team and community practice level. We work hard to match you with work that will both play to your strengths and challenge you in new ways.
The work you’ll be engaged in is real, tangible work that directly benefits our frontline and communities. Taken all together, this means we can offer you career path opportunities to progress in your chosen profession and become a more well-rounded, experienced leader, with opportunities across the range of work we support.
To view more detailed information about our recruitment process along with further details about requirements please click below link:
https://www.newcops.govt.nz/sites/default/files/applicant_information_pack_2023_external.pdf
Tono ināianei | Apply now
If this position sounds like you, click apply now and submit a tailored CV. You will be required to submit an application form. Before confirmation of hire, pre-employment checks will be undertaken which include reference, drug and alcohol testing and police vetting prior to any written offer being made.
For further information on the application process, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers
All applications must be submitted online and will not be accepted directly via email. All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand.
If you are an internal applicant, you must apply internally through the police system. You must provide an alternative contact email address and state your future commitments should you be successful in the next stage of the recruitment process.
Please note: Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm on 3rd March 2025 Applications may be reviewed prior to the close date as well as contact made with candidates.
Interviews are tentatively scheduled for March 2025
If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact deepa.shankar@police.govt.nz
