Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer (Contract)
Auckland | Rosedale | 3–6 Month Contract | Hourly Rate
We’re looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to join a growing technology team and take ownership of a high-impact platform engineering project.
You’ll be responsible for designing and building a purpose-built solution to manage configuration and deployments across Windows Server environments, taking the project from discovery and architecture through to implementation and handover.
What you’ll be doing
Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation about the opportunity.
Auckland | Rosedale | 3–6 Month Contract | Hourly Rate
We’re looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to join a growing technology team and take ownership of a high-impact platform engineering project.
You’ll be responsible for designing and building a purpose-built solution to manage configuration and deployments across Windows Server environments, taking the project from discovery and architecture through to implementation and handover.
What you’ll be doing
- Assess the existing environment and identify technical risks and opportunities.
- Design and build configuration management and deployment tooling for Windows Server.
- Develop robust automation with appropriate logging, monitoring, error handling and recovery.
- Recommend the right architecture and technology stack, with a focus on security and maintainability.
- Work closely with developers and take ownership through to production implementation.
- Document the solution and support knowledge transfer.
- Strong Platform Engineering / Infrastructure Engineering experience.
- Hands-on Windows Server expertise.
- Software development experience with C#, .NET, Java or Python.
- Experience building deployment, automation, infrastructure or configuration-management tooling.
- Strong understanding of reliability, monitoring, logging, security and operational support.
- Experience with Kafka, Kubernetes and/or Volt would be beneficial.
- SRE, DevOps or production platform experience is advantageous.
- 3–6 month contract
- Hourly rate
- Auckland / Rosedale-based
- Predominantly office-based, particularly during the first 3 months
- High-impact project with tangible outcomes
- Opportunity to influence the technical direction and build the solution from the ground up
Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation about the opportunity.