Platform Engineer

2 weeks ago


Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand University of Canterbury Full time
Te Ratonga Tautoko Hangarau | Digital Services
Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

  • Continuing fulltime 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)

Āu Mahi | What You Will Do

The role of Platform Engineer is to provide consulting, technical and domain expertise to build and continuously improve the Tuihono UC | UC Online infrastructure and processes.

This role will provide outstanding technical expertise, advice, and support to our customers across the ecosystem.

Mōu | Who You Are
To be successful in the role, you will have:

  • Significant skilled digital experience platform.
  • Strong analytical thinking and problemsolving skills, detail orientated and gets to the root cause.
  • The ability to articulate technical information to nontechnical stakeholders.
  • A solid technical background in a hosted services environment including infrastructure networks, hardware, software and telecommunications.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With
Our Digital Team is on an exciting transformation journey, supporting UC to deliver a large amount of change. You will be part of our Tuihono UC | UC Online team that sits within Digital Services.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC

Ngā Uara | Our Values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga guide our decisions and behaviour and provide a roadmap for how we do things at UC, affirming our commitment to pastoral care and support for our ākonga and staff.

They challenge and inspire us to be the best we can, and make UC a great place to work and study.

For more info on Ngā Uara | Our Values visit us here.


We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity.

The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.


The closing date for this position is: 5th
April 2024 (midnight, NZ time):

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply
Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency to be considered for this role.

If you hold a valid work visa and are physically present in New Zealand then you may also be considered.


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Continuing (Permanent) full-time
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