Senior Software Engineer

2 weeks ago

Wellington City, New Zealand Transpower Full time

Award-winning Engineering team working on critical systems
- Join our caring and collaborative experts who freely share their expertise
- Deliver complex business domain solutions to keep the lights on for Aotearoa

Transpower is the owner and operator of the National Grid. At the heart of the electricity sector, we transport high voltage electricity from where it is generated to large electricity users and the distribution businesses that deliver it to homes and businesses nationwide.

Our core purpose is to empower the energy future for New Zealand - a future that delivers a net-zero carbon economy and a reliable and secure electricity system.

**About the team**

Our Application Services team helps ensure electricity is delivered to all New Zealanders, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by maintaining and evolving complex critical IT systems. The business domain we work within ensures there are always new and interesting challenges to tackle and that the work we do matters - electricity is essential to our economy, our health system, and the wellbeing of our citizens.

You will be joining an experienced and high performing team who care about their customers and their work. This is a role where you can truly make a positive impact on our people, organisation, and industry. To learn more about our award-winning IT shop, please check out the following pages:
**About the Opportunity**

**What will you bring?**

As a highly experienced Software Engineer, you'll find this role stimulating You will naturally think broadly and seek to understand how your work contributes to the wider systems and strategic direction of Transpower, whilst leveraging your middleware engineering background and experience working across software development and operations.

**Your CV and cover letter will clearly demonstrate**:

- Strong understanding of event-driven design patterns.
- In-depth knowledge of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Comprehensive understanding of API management and routing using tools like Kong, Apigee, and/or Amazon API Gateway.
- Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines for configuring middleware products.
- Expertise in authentication and authorisation protocols, mechanisms, and tools such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and Keycloak.
- Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, and/or Helm is desirable.

**Join us at Transpower**

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, the planet, and the economy.

With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share.

We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for both work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times.

**Next steps**

Note: To be consider for this role, existing New Zealand work rights are required.

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
- 33239
- Posted on
- 14 Feb 2025
- Closes on
- 03 Mar 2025 23:55
- Location(s)
- Wellington
- Expertise
- Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
- Job level(s)
- Experienced
- Work type(s)
- Permanent Full Time

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