Senior DevOps Engineer

**Join a well-established team working at scale with SAFe methodology.**:

- **Lead API and web app development using modern design standards.**

**Korero mo te turanga - About the role**

We are looking for a permanent Senior DevOps Engineer to join our well-established team.

You will use agile methodology to develop, implement, deploy, and support modern software solutions with modern practices including Domain Driven Microservices, Feature Flagging and Continuous Integration and Delivery.

In addition to the above, you will have the ability to contribute to technical discussions and with your robust coding and digital development skills. You will commit to promoting our culture of collaboration with both your squad members, your work leads, architects, and our key stakeholders during Programme Increment (PI) planning and during the creation of iteration plans, team PI objectives, release, release planning and product backlog. Helping you to achieve this will be your effective communication skills which will see you influence others in the programme and build a strong consensus behind your ideas and commitments.

**He pukenga tou - Skills & Experience**

**You Have**:

- Experience working in an Enabling role under DevOps, SRE or Platform engineering practices
- Experience in common tools such as GitHub Actions, New Relic
- Experience using AWS CDK or CloudFormation
- Containerisation using Docker
- ReactJS and Typescript or similar
- Source control using git and GitHub

**Nice to Have**:

- Kotlin or Java and Spring Boot or similar
- Enterprise development including domain modelling and microservices
- Full stack development with experience in modern development methods
- Playwright to create E2E testing
- Storybook testing
- Experience in performing options analysis for solutions
- Experience in creating detailed designs
- Experience with OIDC based authentication
- Experience working in a large, multi-team projects, preferably using SAFe, with a continuous improvement focused mindset.

The annual full-time salary range for this role is $125,000 to $165,000 depending on skills and experience.

**Nga mea e tukuna ana e tatau - What we offer our employees**
- Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai.
- Annual Wellbeing reimbursement
- 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 Takinatanga - Our Story**

Toitu 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, Maori, 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 Specialist - Level 3) doesn't match the advertised title. At Toitu 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._