Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

The Digital Services Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure platform and digital services that support REANNZ's network and high-performance computing operations, alongside services used directly by our members. We are modernising that platform, and we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help lead the work. This is design and build, not lift-and-shift, with security designed in from the start: establishing our AWS foundations, moving services onto Kubernetes, standing up new delivery pipelines, rethinking how we monitor cloud-native services, and extending compute to the network edge. You will shape the technical direction alongside the team and the Networks and Digital Platforms Lead.

Key responsibilities

• Lead significant platform workstreams end to end, from options analysis and design through to operational handover

• Design and build our AWS landing zone, covering account structure, identity, networking, security guardrails and cost controls

• Design, deploy and operate services on Kubernetes across cloud and edge environments, including migrating services from traditional virtual infrastructure

• Embed security into the platform by design, so that access control, secrets handling and patching are built in rather than applied after the fact

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and the automation underpinning the team's delivery

• Contribute to the redesign of our observability capability for cloud-native environments

• Set technical standards, participate in peer reviews for others work, and lift engineering capability across the team

About you

• Extensive hands-on experience building and operating Linux-based infrastructure, virtualisation and container platforms in production

• Deep AWS expertise, including landing zone design covering account structure, identity, networking, security guardrails and cost management

• Strong Kubernetes experience running production workloads, and infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent

• Demonstrated cloud and infrastructure security capability, including identity and access management, secrets management and vulnerability remediation

• Proven delivery of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices, with practical experience instrumenting and monitoring cloud-native services

• Scripting or programming proficiency sufficient to build and maintain real automation and tooling, alongside sound networking

• Strong troubleshooting in complex distributed environments, and the ability to explain technical complexity to non-technical stakeholders