• Tō kamupene hou | Your new company

Tō tūranga hou | Your new role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be a driving force behind the stability and performance of cloud-native platforms. Your work will span infrastructure design, automation, and incident response, with a strong focus on enabling development teams to ship code confidently and securely.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Building and managing resilient infrastructure on Azure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

• Developing proactive monitoring and alerting systems to ensure service health and performance.

• Supporting high-volume data streaming environments powered by Kafka.

• Integrating reliability practices into CI/CD workflows and development lifecycles.

• Leading incident investigations and driving long-term improvements through post-incident reviews.

• Orchestrating containerised applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring robust deployment pipelines and secure, scalable environments.
  
  

Ngā uara me ngā pūkenga e angitu ai koe | What you'll need to succeed

• A solid background in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering (5+ years).

• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure and its ecosystem of services.

• Advanced skills in Terraform and a strong grasp of IaC principles.

• Proven expertise in managing and tuning Kafka clusters.

• Comfort with scripting and automation using tools like Bash, Python, or PowerShell.

• Hands-on experience with AKS, including cluster setup, workload management, and troubleshooting. Knowledge of Helm, RBAC, and Kubernetes networking is a bonus.

  Me aha koe ināianei | What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or email me directly on Isaac.Flower@hays.net.nz

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