DevOps Platform Capability Lead

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand TOWER Insurance Full time

**Why you'll love working with Tower**

At Tower, we live and breathe our values - they are at the heart of every interaction. Our people come first,** **we pride ourselves on creating a diverse and inclusive space that allows our people to thrive. Encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, we aim to represent the diverse communities we work in and with.

We also have a plan to lead our industry forward into a more customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking, as a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider operating for over 150 years, with roots all the way back to Dunedin.

**What will you be doing?**

At Tower, our DevOps Platform Capability Lead - Azure plays a pivotal leadership role in driving continuous improvement. You'll be the force behind our capability framework, ensuring we deliver beautifully simple and rewarding experiences for our customers.

Your leadership is crucial in understanding and managing the customer impact of changes, helping us create exceptional and seamless solutions.

**You can expect to be across the following**:

- Connect the Platform Engineering chapter to the overall Tower strategy in your area of capability
- Support the capability of the Platform to deliver software swiftly and safely while understanding customer impact
- Support the capability of the Platform Engineering team and it' members
- Support the Capability of the Product to meet the needs of the Customer
- Perform operational support and management of our Azure Cloud Platform and associated observability capabilities.
- Manage Azure resources with Terraform Cloud - including cost optimisation, right-sizing, tagging.
- Create, extend, and troubleshoot build, release, and deployment pipelines.
- Configuration management as code via Ansible.
- Provide technical direction and advice for Azure cloud services.

**What you'll need**

**To be successful in this role, you will also be able to demonstrate the following**:

- Solution architecture or design experience with Azure cloud and services
- Real world IT infrastructure operational experience with recent active experience in Azure public cloud
- Practical and current experience working in an SRE/Platform Engineering environment.
- Stong knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azures cloud platform and services - consider yourself and expert in this field
- Understand concepts of identity management and role-based access control.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes, Jenkins & Groovy.
- Real world familiarity with PowerShell, MSSQL, SQL Clusters and Windows Server.
- Experience with configuring and maintaining monitoring & alerting for infrastructure & services.
- Familiarity with provisioning services through 'Infrastructure as Code' techniques and practices.
- Proficiency with mentoring & coaching less experienced team members
- Firm understanding of Architecture, SDLC and Product development best practices
- Demonstrated experience in making decisions based on data and business value

**What we'll bring to the table**

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.

Highlights Include:

- 16 weeks paid leave for the primary carer and four weeks paid leave for partners, for our Tower whānau in New Zealand and the Pacific
- A paid day off on your birthday and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off
- Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; and support you with design-specific development and training opportunities; we also have programmes that recognise star performers
- Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful new Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas
- Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%
- Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary
- Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club, Warehouse Stationery and more



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