Site Reliability Engineer

• Auckland/Wellington based opportunity
• Staff banking discounts, health insurance, flexible working options, additional wellbeing leave and more!
• Grow your cloud, automation and SRE skills alongside experienced engineers

At Kiwibank, we're building super simple, reliable experiences for our customers and frontline teams. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll help ensure our platforms are resilient, scalable and secure, enabling millions of New Zealanders to bank with confidence.

• You'll work closely with engineers across Digital & Technology, contributing to the design, operation and continuous improvement of our systems. This is a hands-on role where you'll build your technical capability, solve challenging problems, and help embed reliability and quality into everything we do from day one.
• You'll also be part of a culture that values empowered teams over heroics, strong engineering principles over shortcuts, and learning over blame.

Key skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience working with AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices
• 2+ years' commercial experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering or a similar technology role
• Experience supporting production systems and contributing to incident response and problem resolution activities
• Exposure to Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience with scripting or automation and a passion for improving processes
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within cross-functional Agile teams
• A collaborative mindset with a willingness to learn, share knowledge and continuously improve

• Experience with observability, monitoring and alerting tools
• Exposure to GitOps, DevSecOps or automated compliance practices
• Experience with networking, configuration management, containers or cloud technologies
• Contributions to technical documentation, runbooks or operational processes

We want you to get the most out of work and life, so you will have the option to explore flexible working arrangements that suit both your needs and ours. We now also offer one wellbeing day a quarter to ensure our people are taken care of and can bring their best selves to work. Our great range of benefits include health and life cover, discounted banking, insurance products and an incredible package for new parents.

We are proud to be a certified B Corporation, a Pride Pledge partner and we are the first bank in Aotearoa to get the Gender Tick. We are also an accredited Living Wage employer.

Tono mai |Apply Now!– We will be reviewing applications throughout the advertising period, and we reserve the right to withdraw the ad at any time. Applications close Tuesday 21st July midday.

Please note: Due to a high volume of applications, there may be a delay in our response. Thank you for your patience.

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