Senior Platform Engineer

Mō te tūranga | About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team and help support, modernise and improve Westpac’s critical technology platforms. You’ll work across platform engineering, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and production support, helping build reliable, secure and scalable platforms that enable our application and engineering teams.

About Westpacnz

• 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.
• We’re a place where you can bring your whole self, your ideas and your ambition, and have the support and opportunities to keep growing.
• Here, you can do meaningful work, make a difference for our customers and be part of something bigger.
• Because when we each bring our best and bring it together, there’s no limit to what we can achieve.
• The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds.
• At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to build a team rich in different perspectives, experiences and abilities.
• We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodivergent, have chronic health conditions or disabilities.
• Your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will: Build, maintain and support enterprise infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop automation to improve platform provisioning, deployment and operational processes.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Support Windows and Linux-based platforms across enterprise environments.
• Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure and application integration issues.
• Work with Control-M for enterprise workload automation and scheduling.
• Support production systems, respond to incidents, implement changes and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to platform modernisation, security uplift and continuous improvement.
• Support and enhance monitoring and observability using Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, security and engineering teams to deliver reliable technology solutions.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• You’ll bring strong platform engineering experience, technical ownership and a collaborative mindset, including: Strong experience with Windows, Linux and enterprise infrastructure administration.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of security, vulnerability management and infrastructure best practices.
• Configuration management and infrastructure automation.
• Enterprise monitoring and observability tools.
• 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

Requirements

• Experience with CI/CD, automation and DevOps engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting business-critical production platforms.

Preferred

• Nice to have Experience in any of the following would be beneficial: VMware, cloud or container platforms such as OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Financial services or other regulated environments.

• Tono mai ināianei! | Apply Now! Apply today with your CV and Cover Letter.
• Mahi tahi tātou, tē katia tātou | Together, we’re unstoppable Applications close: 22 November 2026