Working Arrangement for candidates based in Auckland: Hybrid/2-3 days onsite per week
Working Arrangement for outside Auckland: Remote (onsite 4 times per year)
Key Selling Points
- Build and scale critical platform infrastructure supporting modern, cloud native systems
- Drive reliability, performance, and security across large scale engineering environments
- Influence platform strategy and operational best practices at an enterprise level
- We are looking for a Lead or Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join a high performing platform and infrastructure team.
- This role focuses on designing, building, and scaling the core infrastructure that underpins modern engineering environments. You will play a key role in ensuring systems are secure, reliable, and highly available, while influencing platform strategy and driving operational excellence across the organisation.
- This is a lead position suited to someone who enjoys working across infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering, with the ability to influence both technical direction and engineering standards.
- Design, provision, and manage platform infrastructure, including networking and access controls
- Implement and maintain RBAC models to support secure and scalable access management
- Support internal platforms and external managed services such as Kafka and Confluent Cloud
- Establish and improve operational processes including monitoring, patching, and BAU support
- Manage platform security, ensuring compliance with best practice standards
- Drive reliability, scalability, and performance across platform environments
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform usage and operational maturity
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to platform and infrastructure strategy
Must Have
- Strong experience with Azure across infrastructure, networking, and security
- Solid understanding of RBAC and identity and access management principles
- Proven experience working with modern CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure as code tools
- Experience supporting platforms such as Kafka or Confluent Cloud
- Background in improving operational processes and platform maturity
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability engineering principles
- Experience operating at a lead level within SRE or platform engineering roles
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non technical stakeholders
- Exposure to Kubernetes and containerised environments
- Work on critical platform infrastructure that enables large scale engineering delivery
- Opportunity to influence reliability, security, and platform standards across the organisation
- Collaborate with strong technical leadership in a high performing environment
- Work with modern cloud native technologies and practices
- Long term career growth within a high impact engineering function
If you are an experienced SRE looking to step into a lead or principal level role with broad technical influence, apply now. We will be in touch with shortlisted candidates.
