Senior Devsecops Engineer

Ability to work across an innovative multi-agency Product, a unique opportunity in the New Zealand Public Sector
- Be part of making genuine change to how we deliver value to our customers and users
- Flexible working + 3 extra Customs' service leave days

Whakapuakanga Tangata Haere ki Aotearoa | New Zealand Traveller Declaration
The New Zealand Traveller Declaration (NZTD) is the new digital form used to collect information from travellers arriving into Aotearoa New Zealand via air and sea. It helps us ensure that people are only bringing in what they should be into our country; improving the safety and security of New Zealand.
The opportunities for how we can now evolve our product to positively impact these travellers and all the Border Protection agencies involved in their journey is endless. Our vision is for a modern, digital and streamlined border into New Zealand that supports seamless travel by air and sea.
To help us achieve this inter-agency vision, we are seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevSecOps Engineer to join our newly established NZTD team. We are looking for an experienced individual who can actively help us maintain highly available, high-secure services whilst continuously improving the product and delivering value for our customers and stakeholders.
If you thrive in a complex environment and have a passion for continuous improvement and making genuine change, we want you on our team

**What we value in the NZTD Tower**:

- Being customer / user focused to determine needs versus wants
- Organising around value being delivered
- Leveraging data to make more effective decisions
- Visibility and transparency
- Focusing on delivering value earlier over increasing delivery velocity
- Empowering and enabling our people and teams
- Embracing diversity, inclusion, and belonging for our people.

**Great additions to the NZTD Tower will**:

- Use direct and effective communication and are collaborative in all you do
- Respectfully collaborate, compromise, and work together to achieve shared outcomes
- Do what you say you will, and actively self-evaluate to continually grow and develop
- Value honesty in others and yourself, and in turn are able to hear, adapt, and give constructive feedback
- Care about people's wellbeing
- Understand that everyone has a voice and every voice counts
- Not be afraid to give things a go - even if it is unsuccessful, we have learnt something.

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role
Embedded in the NZTD Tower, the DevSecOps Engineer will actively help us maintain highly available, high-secure services whilst continuously improving the product and delivering value for our customers and stakeholders.
This role creates and supports high-quality platform services in collaboration across IS, to deliver services to border officers across multiple agencies and to the travellers themselves. Our roadmap is ambitious with immediate and future demand.
The focus for this role will be on supporting and enhancing the NZTD technologies and platforms which are mostly built around Azure technologies. You will be taking an automate-first approach to building and configuring pipelines, managing services such as APIM, Azure Service Business, Kubernetes, ELK and using tools such as Powershell and Terraform.
As a true DevSecOps role, besides the development aspects, this role requires the engineer to have strong focus on security and operational support, ensuring that the product is always adhering to ever evolving security requirements, and responding to security risk and operational issues in a timely manner.
To be successful as DevSecOps Engineer the following knowledge, experience, skills and personal attributes are required:

- Strong hands-on experience configuring, troubleshooting and automating Azure services
- Driven to automate tasks, ensure what you create not only delivers the desired functionality but is secure, sustainable and cost-effective
- Passion for continuous learning, keeping up-to-date with latest best practices and technology standards with the desire and personal drive to keep challenging themselves to grow and deliver valued services for travellers and our border staff
- Ownership for DevSecOps' full lifecycle, covering development, operational management and incident support, while maintain the security and cost effectiveness of all services
- Focus on quality to minimize risk and impact on our stakeholders and thereby reducing the need to fix incident management enabling more time for value add services
- Ideally has (but not essential) familiarity with Agile and ITIL methodologies.

Mahi ki te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa | Working at Customs
We aim to create a great place to work, where our people have a sense of belonging and the capability and desire to meet our future challenges. We are an organisation that is clear about our mission and this is underpinned by Te Pou Tokomanawa (the Foundations) and our Whanonga Pono (Values). Our work really matters