Senior Dev Ops Engineer

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

At Toitu 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 Digital Delivery 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 pukenga tou - Skills & Experience**

**Technical Skills**:

- Incident Management & Support: Experience with incident and problem management processes, production support environments, and after-hours support.
- Agile/SAFE Experience: Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), participation in Agile ceremonies, and understanding of SAFE methodologies.
- Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with AWS, DevOps practices and tools (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Cloud Development Kit, Terraform), and Atlassian tools (Opsgenie, JIRA, Statuspage).
- Monitoring and Observability: Experience with tools like New Relic, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and understanding of observability principles.
- Development Knowledge: Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Typescript, Java, Python), modern CI/CD pipelines, and backend/database monitoring.

**Soft Skills**:

- Communication & Collaboration: Ability to engage with large groups, proficiency with collaboration tools (Slack, Teams, Confluence), and strong upward communication skills.
- Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills: Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and interpret monitoring data.
- Team Dynamics: Assertive and collaborative team player, able to handle stress and communicate effectively in high-pressure situations.

**Domain-Specific Skills**:

- Release and Deployment Management: Experience with frequent deployments and understanding of deployment vs. release practices.
- Customer-Centric Observability: Ability to design and implement user experience metrics and trace transactions across systems.

**Desirable Skills**:

- Experience working in an ITIL framework environment.
- Familiarity with automation frameworks and scripting to reduce manual operational overhead.

**The expected appointing range for this role is between $130,000 to $150,000 per annum, dependent on 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.
- 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 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 Secialist - Level Toru/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._