Software Specialist - SRE

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia Orana, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Bula Vinaka and Namaste!

At ASB, we believe progress is more than just financial - it's about helping New Zealanders, communities, and our environment thrive together. We're a purpose-led organisation with a proud history and a clear vision: to support Kiwis in getting one step ahead. Our work is guided by strong values - caring, integrity, courage, passion, and unity - and brought to life by a diverse team of people who genuinely care about making a difference.

As one of Aotearoa's most trusted banking partners, we combine the stability and scale of a large organisation with a culture that ensures you're recognised as an individual. Your ideas, your growth, and your contribution matter here - and you'll be supported to do meaningful work that has a real impact, every day.

Mō te tūranga ~ About the role

The Identity & Integration platform delivers reliable and innovative technology solutions at pace, leveraging our thought leadership and engineering expertise. We are responsive, proactive, and transparent. Our goal is to have 'always on' capabilities, tomorrow's tech at tomorrow's pace, make things simple, be more awesome, and embrace disruption and innovation to enable our people to innovate at pace; simply and securely.

Modern Integration is the internal platform powering service delivery across our engineering teams. We're looking for a hands-on platform engineer with strong SRE capabilities to contribute to reliability, developer experience, and platform guardrails across our Azure and CNCF-tooled Kubernetes ecosystem. In this role you will work on reusable deployment workflows, Helm-based service delivery, OPA/Rego policy-as-code controls, Kong Mesh service mesh, and secure platform integrations (Azure identity, Key Vault, ACR, and compliance checks), growing your skills alongside experienced platform engineers and consultants.

What you’ll do

• Contribute to reliability engineering for Modern Integration platform services and delivery workflows, aligned with CNCF and cloud-native engineering practices.

• Build and maintain reusable CI/CD templates and GitHub Actions workflows consumed by multiple service teams across the platform.

• Support AKS cluster health, Helm release safety, rollout reliability, and recovery patterns across environments.

• Implement OPA/Rego policy controls, Kong Mesh traffic policies, and security validation checks within delivery pipelines.

• Contribute to SLOs, operational readiness, incident response, and platform observability improvements.

• Collaborate with platform, security, and service teams to reduce toil and improve developer flow.

What we’re looking for

• At least 7–10 years of hands-on SRE or platform engineering experience in cloud-hosted, containerised production environments.

• Strong platform engineering skills — AKS, Helm, GitHub Actions, Azure Container Registry (ACR), and kubelogin in a multi-team, multi-service delivery model.

• Practical experience with CNCF ecosystem tooling, including OPA/Rego for policy-as-code and service mesh technologies such as Kong Mesh and Gateway or similar.

• Secure-by-default delivery experience: Azure identity, Key Vault, workload identity, service principal management, and pipeline compliance controls.

• Experience in incident response, SLO-driven reliability improvement, and platform observability across Kubernetes workloads.

Nice to have

• CNCF certifications (CKAD, CKS, or equivalent) and/or Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400, or equivalent) are highly advantageous, as is a demonstrated track record in a CNCF-tooled platform environment.

Why this role

• You'll contribute to a production CNCF-tooled platform — working with AKS, Helm, GitHub Actions, OPA, and Kong Mesh at scale.

• You'll work on high-impact platform capabilities used across multiple services and domains, with real ownership of reliability and delivery quality.

• You'll grow your platform engineering expertise in a team that values craft, standards, and continuous improvement.

He aha tā mātou | What can we offer

Get the work-life equation right. We know life is full of priorities, from soccer practice to side hobbies. We're here to help you find balance, with a flexible and supportive working environment.

What's important to you is important to us. We support your wellbeing in meaningful ways, including comprehensive health insurance, wellness initiatives, parental and flexible leave, and customisable benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Bring your whole self to work every day. Whether you're into scrap booking, spontaneous karaoke sessions, or just hanging out with the family, ASB is working hard to create a culture where everyone feels safe, included and part of our shared purpose of helping Kiwi get one step ahead.

The whole "one step ahead" thing applies to you, too. With mentorship, flexible learning pathways, and opportunities to deepen your expertise, ASB is a place where you can take on exciting challenges and step forward to reach your goals, both in and out of office.

Me pēhea te tona | How to apply?

We know great people come from all sorts of backgrounds, and you don't need to tick every box to apply. What matters most is you bring your unique strengths and enthusiasm to the team.

To be considered, all applications need to go through our online career channels and will be

treated with confidentiality. Check out the position description to find out more.

We appreciate the time and effort you put into applying and will keep you updated throughout the process.

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