Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
At Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand, our key role is to ensure New Zealanders have accurate information about where people and places are, that people have confidence in their property rights and that Crown property is well managed for future generations. From the best way to develop farmland, build a new suburb, manage a high-country farm, or navigate on land or at sea, our work and location information help people make better decisions and create economic, social, environmental, and cultural value for New Zealand. We are on a long-term journey to build cloud-native data infrastructure products that support our mission critical business activities in the Location Information group.
To help us achieve this we are looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer with a good understanding of modern Agile development.
This role will see you working within an Agile team developing, configuring, testing, implementing, and documenting innovative solutions to common problems our DevOps squads are having; and creating and maintaining Github Actions CI/CD pipelines targeting AWS.

He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience
- Ability to monitor and optimise the performance of system software and actively participate in resolving potential and actual service problems.
- Ability to detect issues. Log and prioritise them, initiate actions to investigate them, diagnose and resolve problems.
- Ability to coordinate incident responses, taking actions to minimising negative impacts and restoring service as quickly as possible.
- Maintaining and supporting infrastructure cloud-based systems, to meet operational needs and service levels.
- Ability to understand and identify relationships of configuration items (CIs) such as source code, software, products, systems, hardware, or networks.
- Monitor service level agreements to support cloud-based services.
- Analyse and optimised cloud-based storage to support back up, archiving and data recovery related activities.
- Ability to adhere to established safety, security, and quality standards.
- Maintain documentation of permanent fixes, temporary corrections, workarounds, and other knowledge articles.
- Certified in ITIL, CompTIA or Cisco (highly desirable)
- Will be required to participate in an out of business hours on-call roster.

**Tools**:

- Ideally experience in OpsGenie, New Relic, Jira and Github actions
- Development or scripting skills in Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Java, GroovyAWS cloud platform, AWS CDK, ECS, Postgress RDS, Redis and Dynamo

Ngā mea e tukuna ana e tātau - What we offer our employees
- Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai.
- Eye & ear care reimbursements
- Annual Flu Vaccinations
- Reduced Health Insurance Premiums
- Diverse groups and networks
- If eligible for paid parental leave, you will be entitled to a top up payment for the first 18 weeks of the 26 weeks.
- A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave

Te Tākinatanga - Our Story
Toitū Te Whenua plays a vital role in understanding, developing, and caring for New Zealand's whenua, moana and arawai (land, sea and waterways). Whether you're developing our products and services to support our customers, managing the Crown estate, engaging with our iwi partners, or helping us be an effective regulator, your contribution can make a difference. Our mahi helps New Zealanders have confidence that the development of our land, communities and country is being planned from an informed and expert position that balances environmental, social, cultural, and economic considerations. Now and for future generations.

Our Kia Toipoto Intentions - Public Service Gender, Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action Plan

Tono mai - How to Apply
If you're eyeing up this role and believe you've got what it takes, please apply, or get in touch with the team.

You may notice that the Position Description title for this role (Digital Secialist - Level Toru/3) doesn't match the advertised title. At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks). This means our position descriptions are broad, one position description can cover many roles, this is known as Broad Based Role (BBR). Using BBR allows us to be responsive to our customers and to strengthen the connections across our organisation. It also gives us the flexibility to provide wider opportunities to our people, to further their careers.