Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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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 NZTA's 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.

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Have

• The ability to understand 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 working with SLO’s, SLI and SLA’s.
• Significant experience working with at least one of the major cloud providers, Azure preferred.
• Significant experience working with Site Reliability Engineering concepts.
• Tertiary level qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience.
• Willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori; and an appreciation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as it applies in the public service.

What you will get in return

Applications close : 4 November 2025

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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.

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