Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Auckland/Wellington based opportunity
• Staff banking discounts, flexible working options, additional wellbeing days of leave and more!
• Fixed Term Contract – 12 Months

Kō tātou tēnei. Hei kawe i ngā mahi kia tutuki | This is us. Where making an impact matters.

Join our team, where we build, automate, and operate resilient cloud platforms that support critical services across Kiwibank and our partners. As a senior Cloud SRE, you will bring deep expertise across AWS and Azure, with a strong focus on reliability, security, infrastructure as code, and delivery automation. You will help shape scalable platform patterns, uplift engineering standards, and solve complex operational challenges in environments where control, resilience, and compliance matter, while working closely with product teams in modern Agile delivery environments.

In this role you will:

• Design, build, and operate secure, resilient, and scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services across AWS and Azure using infrastructure as code and automation-first practices
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment standards, and engineering workflows that enable safe, repeatable, and auditable delivery of infrastructure and application changes
• Actively lead and take ownership of complex tasks and initiatives, taking them from solution ideation to production implementation.
• Provide mentoring and assistance to junior engineers, work closely with security, risk, architecture, delivery, and product teams
• Contribute to modern ways of working by actively engaging in Agile ceremonies, including planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, while driving continuous improvement, operational excellence, and reduction of technical debt

Ko tātou tēnei. Kia hāpai i ō pūkenga | This is us. Where your expertise matters.

Key skills and experience we’re looking for:

• 5+ years' commercial experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a closely related role supporting production environments
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure, including building and supporting cloud-native and hybrid platform capabilities in complex enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in infrastructure as code using Terraform and related tooling, with a track record of creating reusable modules, policy-driven controls, and automated platform provisioning
• Extensive experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automation workflows, and testing practices that support safe, reliable, and efficient software and infrastructure delivery
• Solid experience across cloud operations, networking, identity and access management, observability, configuration management, containers, and operational security practices
• Proven ability to work effectively in Agile and DevSecOps environments, partnering closely with engineers, product teams, security, and risk stakeholders, and contributing meaningfully to team ceremonies and delivery rhythms
• Strong experience in incident management, problem resolution, and root cause analysis, with exposure to regulated industries where auditability, resilience, risk management, and compliance are critical

Ko tātou tēnei - Hei hāpai i a koe, me tō whānau |This is us. Where you and your whānau matter.

We want you to get the most out of work and life, so you will have the option to explore flexible working arrangements that suit both your needs and ours. We now also offer one wellbeing day a quarter to ensure our people are taken care of and can bring their best selves to work. Our great range of benefits include discounted banking and an incredible package for new parents.

We are proud to be a certified B Corporation, a Pride Pledge partner and we are the first bank in Aotearoa to get the Gender Tick. We are also an accredited

Living Wage employer.

Tono mai |Apply Now!– We will be reviewing applications throughout the advertising period, and we reserve the right to withdraw the ad at any time. Applications close Friday 17th July midday

Please note: Due to a high volume of applications, there may be a delay in our response. Thank you for your patience.

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