Platform Engineer - Automation

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

As a Platform Engineer for Westpac, you will help engineers be successful developing platforms. Your role plays an important part in the development and maintenance of technical solutions across Westpac enterprise compute environments – such as on-premises and cloud and helps develop tooling and software to enable the orchestration and automation of maintaining VM workloads across platforms.

You will be required to work across the chapter, sharing knowledge and driving improvement across the craft of Platform Engineering.

Key Responsibilities include.

• Provide technical expertise to Enterprise Compute and Storage teams, covering all aspects of the cloud within a specific service or pattern.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the service and platform throughout their lifecycle.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding and a high level of experience with DevOps, CI/CD, SecOps, test driven development (TDD) and other high maturity practices
• Evaluate and provide diagnosis and resolution of complex service (cross infrastructure/application) issues that may arise during the cloud life cycle to ensure effective development, maintenance and support of patterns and platform
• Identify and facilitate the resolution of design decisions and issues through the solution design and delivery phases to ensure timely identification and resolution of design issues and decisions

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• Demonstrable experience in applying DevOps/SRE principles/practices and tooling to deliver automation across one or more cloud platforms private VMWare-based infrastructure and public cloud.

• Development experience in one or more programming or scripting languages – JavaScript (NodeJS), PowerShell, Python, Go, BASH, Ruby, Rust etc.

• Experience with provisioning automation tools (e.g. Terraform, vRealize Automation/Orchestrator, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager etc), Configuration Management tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible) and tools for building Images/Templates (e.g. Packer).

• Exposure to modern application architectures such as Microservices and experience with technology that supports them (e.g. Kubernetes/Containers)

• Solid understanding of network principles including TCP/IP, VLANs and overlays, Firewalling and Routing.

• Strong communication skills with an emphasis on writing well-structured technical documentation.

• Advanced analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting and consultative skills.

• Experience in Agile methodologies with good understanding and working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, extreme programming (XP), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), test driven development (TDD), customer centric design, and behaviour driven development (BDD)

• Demonstrable ability in analysis, problem solving and troubleshooting in a hybrid cloud environment (on-prem, offsite, and public) and across multiple consumption models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).

Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac
In addition to immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, you'll receive some great job perks and benefits including:
• 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
• Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
• Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
• Growth and development – we provide opportunities for development and promote internal mobility
• Recognition - we recognise and reward our star performers
• School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
• 2 Volunteer days per year

Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation
At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.

What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!

Tono mai ināianei! | Apply Now!

Apply today with your CV and Cover Letter.

The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us – we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodiverse, have chronic health conditions or disabilities – your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.

Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater

Applications close:

11 July 2024