Senior Platform Engineer

**Senior Platform Engineer - Modern Integration**

**Mō Mātou | About us**:
At ASB, we believe progress is more than just financial. It's about helping New Zealanders, communities, and our environment thrive together. We're a purpose-led organisation with a proud history and a clear vision to support Kiwis in getting one step ahead. Our work is guided by strong values such as caring, integrity, courage, passion, and unity, and brought to life by a diverse team of people who genuinely care about making a difference.

As one of Aotearoa's most trusted banking partners, we combine the stability and scale of a large organisation with a culture that ensures you're recognised as an individual. Your ideas, your growth, and your contribution matter here. You'll be supported to do meaningful work that has a real impact every day

**Mō te Tūranga | About the role**

Shape ASB's integration ecosystem as a senior technical leader in our Modern Integration Platform Engineering Squad.

As a Senior Platform Engineer (Software Consultant), you will:

- Design and deliver complex software solutions
- Lead solution architecture and platform ownership
- Collaborate across squads and with product owners, engineers, and architects
- Build SDKs, maintain event brokers, and mentor engineers
- Influence the quality and resilience of ASB's technology stack

This Level 4 role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, enjoys coaching others, and wants to drive technical excellence without formal people leadership responsibilities.

**Ō Pūkenga | 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:

- ** 10+ years of experience** in **Site Reliability Engineering**, **DevOps**, or **Cloud Infrastructure**.
- Expertise in **Confluent Kafka** (topics, partitions, replication, schema registry, ksqlDB, connectors, etc.).
- Strong experience with **DataStax Cassandra/AstraDB** (data modeling, replication strategies, tuning, etc.).
- Hands-on experience in **IaC** (e.g.: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm).
- Strong coding/scripting skills in **Python, Go, or Bash** for automation.
- Experience with **cloud platforms** (AWS, Azure, or GCP), particularly in networking, security, and cost optimization.
- Deep understanding of **SRE principles** (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and chaos engineering).
- Experience in **monitoring and logging tools** (e.g.: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK).
- Experienced working with **Github**:

- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work in fast-paced environments, and a proactive mindset.
- Good to have - Two relevant certifications in Confluent Kafka, DataStax Cassandra or Advanced certifications in Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).

**Te mahi ki ASB | 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.
- ** Career Growth**: Access to learning and development through training sessions, courses, and internal opportunities
- ** Inclusive Culture**: Join values-led teams that celebrate diversity and support employee-led communities
- ** Health & Wellbeing**: Southern Cross Wellbeing One health insurance, lifestyle and volunteering leave, and mental wellbeing support
- ** Meaningful Benefits**: Enjoy discounted banking, insurance, and a generous parental leave top-up
- ** Impactful Work**: Be part of a purpose-led organisation that makes a difference for New Zealanders

**Job details**:

- Reference #
- EP1104JN
- Posted on
- 18 Sep 2025
- Location(s)
- Auckland
- Expertise
- IT (Other), IT Infrastructure, IT Management
- Work type(s)
- Full Time

Application closes on 02 Oct 2025 23:59