Platform Engineer
Summary
12-month contract Platform/DevOps Engineer at a major New Zealand infrastructure organisation in Wellington. Day to day: designing infrastructure automation with Ansible, building CI/CD pipelines, and developing Helm charts for containerised apps on OpenShift, working with AWS and Kubernetes to improve platform reliability.
We're looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to join a major New Zealand infrastructure organisation on a 12-month contract.
You'll play a key role in designing, building and improving the automation and deployment capabilities that support critical technology platforms.
This is a hands-on engineering role, working alongside technical and development teams to streamline processes, improve platform reliability and deliver robust, scalable infrastructure solutions.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and implementing infrastructure automation using Ansible.
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery and deployment.
- Developing and managing Helm charts for containerised applications running on OpenShift.
- Working with AWS cloud technologies and Kubernetes environments.
- Collaborating with development and infrastructure teams to improve platform performance, scalability and reliability.
- Identifying opportunities to simplify processes and improve automation across the environment.
You'll be an experienced DevOps or Platform Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and getting stuck into delivery.
Ideally, you'll bring:
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
- Proven experience using Ansible for automation and configuration management.
- Solid knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift and Helm.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab CI or similar tools.
- Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across technical teams.
Interested? This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to meaningful technology projects supporting some of New Zealand's most important infrastructure.
Apply now or contact FIND IT Recruitment Wellington for a confidential discussion.
