Westpac

Contract Platform Engineer

Westpac  •  New Zealand (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

About us

At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the engineering, automation, operational support, and continuous improvement of critical platform services.

Working within a collaborative engineering team, you'll help deliver highly available and secure platforms that support application deployment, integration, observability, and operational excellence.

You'll contribute to the full platform lifecycle, including architecture, deployment automation, maintenance, capacity planning, security hardening, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and continuous optimisation.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

  • Strong experience administering Linux-based systems and platforms.

  • Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes and/or OpenShift environments.
  • Sound understanding of networking concepts.
  • Experience with databases and storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, or object storage platforms.
  • Knowledge of high availability, resilience, clustering, disaster recovery, and failover architectures.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable tools.
  • Understanding of GitOps and modern platform delivery practices.
  • Experience with platform security, identity management, and access control.
  • Knowledge of authentication and federation technologies such as LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, and OIDC.
  • Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and platform health management.
  • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins or CloudBees.
  • Experience with Bitbucket, Jira, SonarQube, and related DevOps tooling.
  • Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
  • Experience working within highly regulated enterprise environments.
  • Exposure to cloud platforms and container ecosystem technologies.
Westpac

About Westpac

To turn doing into done, it takes a little Westpac.

From rescue helicopters and signing the Equator Principles, to paying super during parental leave and initiatives like Westpac SaferPay and SafeCall that help protect customers from scams... we have a proud history of stepping up to be first for our customers, communities and people.

We are Australia’s oldest bank and first company and have been supporting customers for over 200 years.

Our purpose is creating better futures together – it’s what we do, who we are and why we come to work every day. With this purpose in mind, we’ve set ourselves a bold ambition - to be our customers’ #1 bank and partner through life.

Westpac acknowledges the traditional owners as the custodians of this land, recognising their connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Australia's First Peoples, and to their Elders, past, present and future.

Westpac Banking Corporation ABN 33 007 457 141. AFSL and Australian credit licence 233714.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Sydney, AU
Year Founded
1817
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