Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Do you have a passion for automation?

Work in agile teams using the latest technologies

GitHub and GitHub Actions

Integration, automation and Azure experience preferred

Full time permanent position - Auckland or Wellington or Palmerston North location

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity   

The purpose of this role is to work alongside others to define the best practices of your craft, whilst working with teams to improve the reliability and observability of our systems, and also improving development and delivery pipelines across NZTA's complex technology estate.

You will be working alongside Software Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Technology Leadership, Business Owners, QA Engineers, Vendors and Suppliers. You should be able to select best solutions in cloud environments based on best practices.

We are looking for someone with someone who has excellent analytical ability and is a logical problem solver with clear communication skills.  Integration, automation and Azure experience preferred.
 

View the position description here.

We are seeking to appoint at a salary between $131,659 and $146,288 of band commensurate to skills and experience.

Ko koe tēnei | About you   

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• The ability to understand on how solutions are architected and integrated internally and with external third-party software.
• Significant understanding of CI/CD
• Significant experience creating pipelines in a CI/CD platform (e.g. GitHub, ADO)
• Significant experience in managing job artefacts
• Significant experience in running large systems and infrastructure
• Significant experience with Monitoring platforms (e.g. Azure Monitor, GCP Cloud Monitoring)
• Significant experience with observability platforms (e.g. Azure Application Insights, Grafana)
• Significant experience in Alerting systems (e.g. Opsgenie, PagerDuty)
• Significant experience in IaC tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Significant experience in working with SLO's SLI and SLA's
• Significant experience in working with at least one of the major cloud providers, Azure preferred
• Significant experience working with Site Reliability Engineering concepts
• Tertiary level qualification in relevant subject or equivalent experience

You will demonstrate knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori. You will also have knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an appreciation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as it applies in the public service.

Mō mātou |About Us

Te Aukaha | Digital strengthens Waka Kotahi through supporting our people and delivering future-focussed solutions. We enable digital change and provide quality data, information and security services.
 

The Technology group implements, supports and maintains digital capability for NZTA. Our teams design and deliver new digital initiatives that use data and information smartly so we can keep pace with digital change in all areas of the land transport system. In addition, our teams look after the digital needs of NZTA employees to perform their functions and manage information effectively and efficiently, and in accordance with all legislative and Government requirements.  

Ka whiwhi koe i te aha | What you will get in return

You will work in a high performing team within our Engineering Chapter and can take advantage of the following benefits.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible working arrangements, including [remote/hybrid options - role dependant].
• Along with our other benefits we also have 5 weeks annual leave and an Income Protection and Critical illness Insurance scheme available for all permanent employees. 

 
Ready to take the next step in your career and join our Engineering Chapter. We’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

Rā Katinga | Applications Close:

4 November 2025

For further information, email: careers@nzta.govt.nz

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.