Wellington or Auckland Hybrid

Kiwibank is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer

Kiwibank is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure our platforms are resilient, scalable, and secure. You'll work closely with engineers across Digital & Technology, contributing deep technical expertise while helping shape how we build, run and improve our systems.

What You'll Do

  • Ensure platforms are resilient, scalable and secure.
  • Contribute deep technical expertise and help shape how we build, run and improve our systems.
  • Take ownership, tackle complex problems, and help embed reliability and quality into everything we do.
  • Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis and high-risk maintenance with minimal customer impact.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration and modern CI/CD practices.
  • 4+ years commercial experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a similar cloud, platform or systems role.
  • Confidence working autonomously, owning solutions end-to-end and making sound technical decisions.
  • Experience with Terraform and AWS, alongside GitOps and automated compliance as standard practice.
  • Proven ability to contribute to incident response, root cause analysis and high-risk maintenance with minimal customer impact.
  • Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.

Nice to Have

  • Experience mentoring or coaching other engineers.
  • Exposure to DevSecOps practices in regulated or enterprise environments.
  • Scripting or development experience across multiple languages.

Technical Stack

  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • GitOps

Team & Environment

Work closely with engineers across Digital & Technology.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Banking benefits
  • Flexible working options
  • Additional wellbeing days of leave
  • One wellbeing day a quarter
  • Discounted banking
  • Incredible package for new parents

Work Mode

This is a hybrid position open to candidates in Wellington or Auckland.

Kiwibank is a Certified B Corporation, a Pride Pledge partner, the first bank in Aotearoa to get the Gender Tick, and an Accredited Living Wage employer. Our culture values empowered teams over heroics, strong engineering principles over shortcuts, and learning over blame.

Required Skills
TerraformAWSGitOpsCloud PlatformsContainersOrchestrationCI/CDAutomated ComplianceIncident ResponseRoot Cause Analysis TerraformAWSGitOpsCloud PlatformsContainersOrchestrationCI/CDAutomated ComplianceIncident ResponseRoot Cause Analysis
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Job Details
Department Information Technology
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago