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Westpac New Zealand

Senior Platform Engineer

  • Posted 2d ago
  • On Site
  • Fixed Term Contract, Contract
Location

Auckland

Job Description

About us
At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.

Mō te tūranga | About the Role
As a Platform Engineer for Westpac, you will help engineers be successful developing platforms. Your role plays an important part in the development and maintenance of technical solutions across Westpac enterprise compute environments – such as on-premises and cloud and helps develop tooling and software to enable the orchestration and automation of maintaining VM workloads across platforms.

You will be required to work across the chapter, sharing knowledge and driving improvement across the craft of Platform Engineering.

Key Responsibilities include.

  • Provide technical expertise to Enterprise Compute and Storage teams, covering all aspects of the cloud within a specific service or pattern.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the service and platform throughout their lifecycle.
  • Demonstrate a deep understanding and a high level of experience with DevOps, CI/CD, SecOps, test driven development (TDD) and other high maturity practices
  • Evaluate and provide diagnosis and resolution of complex service (cross infrastructure/application) issues that may arise during the cloud life cycle to ensure effective development, maintenance and support of patterns and platform
  • Identify and facilitate the resolution of design decisions and issues through the solution design and delivery phases to ensure timely identification and resolution of design issues and decisions


Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

  • Demonstrable experience in applying DevOps/SRE principles/practices and tooling to deliver automation across one or more cloud platforms private VMWare-based infrastructure and public cloud.
  • Development experience in one or more programming or scripting languages – JavaScript (NodeJS), PowerShell, Python, Go, BASH, Ruby, Rust etc.
  • Experience with provisioning automation tools (e.g. Terraform, vRealize Automation/Orchestrator, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager etc), Configuration Management tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible) and tools for building Images/Templates (e.g. Packer).
  • Exposure to modern application architectures such as Microservices and experience with technology that supports them (e.g. Kubernetes/Containers)
  • Solid understanding of network principles including TCP/IP, VLANs and overlays, Firewalling and Routing.
  • Strong communication skills with an emphasis on writing well-structured technical documentation.
  • Advanced analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting and consultative skills.
  • Experience in Agile methodologies with good understanding and working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, extreme programming (XP), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), test driven development (TDD), customer centric design, and behaviour driven development (BDD)
  • Demonstrable ability in analysis, problem solving and troubleshooting in a hybrid cloud environment (on-prem, offsite, and public) and across multiple consumption models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).

Hard Skills Required

  • Software Engineering

Soft Skills Required

  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Adaptability

Benefits and Perks

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    Lifestyle Leave
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    Counselling Services
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    Extended Parental Leave
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    Referral Bonuses
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    Work from Home
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    Discounted Phone or Internet Plans
  • 🏎
    Competitive Salary
  • ⏰
    Flexible Work
  • ⛑
    Uniform Provided
  • 💻
    Company Supplied Technology
  • 📆
    Paid Volunteer Leave
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    Health Insurance
  • 💸
    Payroll Giving
  • 💯
    Employee Mentoring Program
  • 🚶
    Ease Back to Work
  • 🧕
    Inclusive Workspace
  • 💼
    Life Insurance
  • 🎉
    Employee Discounts and Rewards
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    Childcare Support
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    Performance Bonus
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    Professional Development
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    Long Service Rewards
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    Work-Life Balance Support
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    Subsidised Health Insurance

Job Schedule

  • Monday to Friday

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