Technical Consultant

At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives.

If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for a Technical Consultant to join us in our Infrastructure Services Platform

About the role:

As a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer in Infrastructure Services Platform, you'll be part of our team at the forefront of ASB's Modernisation and adoption towards public cloud (Azure and AWS). In the Engineering Practice at ASB, we encourage our teams to work autonomously in an agile way while actively growing their skills and expertise to improve customer outcomes continuously.

You'll bring significant public cloud DevOps engineering, solution design experience, and solid IT infrastructure experience. You will have to be comfortable with designing, configuring and maintaining cloud platform technologies. Automating implementation, configuration, and deployment processes is also part of the role.

We advocate for T-Shaped teams which will take you through all facets of engineering on any given day. We are looking for a mix of technical skills to support the following activities:

• Design and Implement Cloud environments
• Creation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Work closely with Service Delivery team to keep customers informed of both proactive and responsive work undertaken.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Squad and SRE Chapter team's technical capabilities, standards, and practice.

About you:

We'll value your proven initiative, problem solving abilities and leadership skills as we look for every engineer to lead from their position.

With regards to background, the following capabilities are a must:

• Expert level exposure to Microsoft Azure and AWS
• Strong technical leadership, architectural and design skills
• Experience with private cloud architectures
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies
• Linux and Windows knowledge
• Understanding of Application development and software engineering lifecycles
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, cloud management, Identity (Workload identity), virtual networking, Azure policy, observability and monitoring, release management and workflow automation
• Cyber Security knowledge
• Prior experience with automation process and orchestration tools. Build, Release and management of the configuration of all production systems.
• Motivated to learn new technologies and practices, as well as sharing that knowledge to other team members.
• Minimum of three Azure AWS and Terraform certifications below:
  AZ-104 or AZ204; AZ500, AZ700, AZ305, AZ400, SC100, TF associate (003), AWS Architect Associate

Working for ASB:
ASB's sense of who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values. They guide our business in our day-to-day interactions with our team, customers, and community. They are what makes ASB - ASB.
Along with our interactions, values guide our actions and conduct, making ASB a safe and inclusive environment for both our people and our customers. They show that we care, are passionate and courageous, and that we act with integrity. Most importantly they unite us - because they are ASB.

How to apply?
If we've nailed our pitch and this role sounds like it might be the one for you then please click "apply"… we'd love to hear from you
Successful candidates will be required to undertake several pre-employment checks which will include but are not limited to; Police Check, Credit Check, AML Compliance, Verification of your qualifications and may include checks both here in New Zealand and overseas.