At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives.
If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for a Principal Engineer to join us in our Engineering Practice!
The Engineering Practice led by our Chief Engineer is made up of 600+ people covering roles such as Principal Engineers, Domain Leads, Chapter Leads and Engineers who have capabilities across 7 different Chapters (Development, Data, Technical Analysis, Testing, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering and Security). As a Practice we provide Platforms and Tribes with the enduring Engineering capability to deliver on our business strategy.
About the role:
As a Principal Engineer, you will work on some of our most complex engineering challenges, and design solutions that uplift our entire Engineering Practice. You will be deeply involved in ASB's efforts on Public Cloud and the modernisation of our applications. You will also need to bring technical and non-technical leaders on the journey through building relationships and trust, keeping up momentum and un-picking roadblocks to drive towards business outcomes.
Being part of the Engineering Practice at ASB we encourage our teams to work autonomously in an agile way while actively growing their skills and expertise to continuously improve outcomes for our customers.
You'll have the opportunity to get hands-on with some interesting and complex pieces of work that integrate on an enterprise scale, all while being part of a tight autonomous multi-disciplinary team of uber-talented Principal Engineers that drive engineering excellence across the organisation.
About you:
We'll value your proven initiative, problem solving abilities and ways in which you have shown leadership while performing your role. You will work collaboratively with other leaders across Technology and stakeholders to be the voice of Engineering particularly on our public cloud transformation journey.
We are looking for someone who has:
- A background as an Engineering leader or Architect and are a seasoned operator with experience coming out of a modern tech environment of scale
- Experience working on Public Cloud, and ideally have been involved with Cloud transformations in the past
- Expert knowledge of Public Cloud providers like Azure and an understanding of Cloud security and governance required by large organisations
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships well with tech and non-tech people
- Hands on-experience with Infrastructure as Code, Azure cloud management, networking, release management and workflow automation.
- Strong experience
- Ability to switch context, learn fast, build trust and take people on the (cloud) journey
Working at ASB:
ASB's sense of who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values. They guide our business in our day-to-day interactions with our team, customers and community. They are what makes ASB - ASB.
Along with our interactions, values guide our actions and conduct, making ASB a safe and inclusive environment for both our people and our customers. They show that we care, are passionate and courageous, and that we act with integrity. Most importantly they unite us - because they are ASB.
We offer a flexible and supportive work environment and offer an open and inclusive culture; a place where we welcome and value your individuality, ideas and goals.
If we've nailed our pitch and this role sounds like it might be the one for you then please click "apply"… we'd love to hear from you!
To be considered, all applications need to be via our on-line career channels and will be treated with confidentiality.
