Job Description
Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role
Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
We have multiple permanent roles available to join Toitū Te Whenua as a DevOps Engineer in our high-performing agile squads.
You will be part of a team responsible for owning the production environment, ensuring reliability and performance. You are working alongside Agile squads who are rebuilding LandOnline.
What your role entails
Managing operational readiness and optimising system performance of applications, by continuously seeking to better them through defining appropriate reliability thresholds, developing automation, and undertaking strategic engineering projects. You will have clear expectations to work to and will take ownership of meeting those expectations and delivering value.
You'll also contribute to technical strategy and collaborate with your work lead, Product Owner, architects, and fellow devops engineers. Strong communication and problem-solving skills will help you influence direction, build consensus, and drive continuous improvement across our SAFe delivery model.
He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience
We'd love to hear from you if you bring experience focusing on operational concerns and supporting the application environment to ensure its operation to expectations, SLOs and SLAs. This includes:
- Defining and producing operational metrics across systems in distributed systems or microservices.
- Defining SLO/SLAs and implementing a framework of error budget for the program.
- Improving proactive monitoring and alerting of services and systems
- Responding and resolving issues, incidents, requests and problems within the environment
- Defining operational objectives and incident management processes (Postmortems / Post Incident Reports)
- Driving automation of incident response, change and service request automation
- Helping support production environments as a part of on-call roster with afterhours support (only when required)
- Reviewing the current system and presenting ideas for system improvements
- Building solutions to help DevOps, ITOps & support teams
- Leading and assisting with developing canary processes for releases
- Building services and systems using automation scripts
- Contributing to release planning and deployments/releases
- Leading planned Disaster Recovery testing
- Documentation and updating Playbooks
- Escalating and managing tickets with 3rd party vendors
- Managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Providing technical thought leadership and design input
- Working in a healthy and safe manner, in order to protect yourself, and the wellbeing and safety of all people, in whatever capacity they work for, or engage with Toitū Te Whenua LINZ. This includes actively participating in the development and continuous improvement of safe work practices.
You will need to have proven experience in some of the following:
- Working in cloud platforms, AWS preferred
- AWS (RDS,ECS,ElastiCache,Redis),
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or Terraform,
- NewRelic platform experience / Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for apps and microservices,
- OpsGenie / APM Incident management tooling,
- Log Aggregation and querying e.g. CloudWatch,
- Development or scripting experience with the likes of TypeScript, Bash, Kotlin(Java)
- Github Actions
- Testing automation
- Building and driving adoption of Operational dashboards
Desirable experience (not necessary)
- Previous experience or involvement in developing, testing and deploying CICD solutions and solving problems shared across development and enablement squads
- Previous experience in defining Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) or Error Budgets
- Experience with Spring and React Javascript UI Libraries and Full Stack Framework tools desirable but not required
- Industry certification in ITIL or Lean Six Sigma
If you've worked in multi-squad agile environments (ideally using SAFe) and bring a continuous improvement mindset, we'd love to hear from you.
The annual full-time salary range for this role is $110,000 to $150,000 depending on skills and experience.
Ngā mea e tukuna ana e tātau – What we offer our employees
- Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai.
- Eye & ear care reimbursements
- Annual Flu Vaccinations
- Reduced Health Insurance Premiums
- Diverse groups and networks
- If eligible for paid parental leave, you will be entitled to a top up payment for the first 18 weeks of the 26 weeks.
- A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave
Te Tākinatanga - Our Story
Toitū Te Whenua plays a vital role in understanding, developing, and caring for New Zealand's whenua, moana and arawai (land, sea and waterways). Whether you're developing our products and services to support our customers, managing the Crown estate, engaging with our iwi partners, or helping us be an effective regulator, your contribution can make a difference. Our mahi helps New Zealanders have confidence that the development of our land, communities and country is being planned from an informed and expert position that balances environmental, social, cultural, and economic considerations, now and for future generations.
Our Kia Toipoto Intentions - Public Service Gender, Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action Plan
Toitū Te Whenua is a diverse team of individuals with different experience and perspectives. This drives our culture and high performance. We know that people from underrepresented groups and women in particular don't apply for roles if they're not a 100% match, but we're not looking for perfection, we're looking for potential. As an inclusive and supportive employer, we value difference and want to encourage anyone interested to apply, regardless of whether you tick all the boxes or not. As an organisation we embrace diversity encourage work life balance which means you will quickly feel connected and valued.
Tono mai - How to Apply
If you're eyeing up this role and believe you've got what it takes, please apply, or get in touch with the team.
To apply, please click “Apply Online.” You'll be taken through to our Toitū Te Whenua Careers Centre where you'll be able to review further information about the responsibilities and accountabilities of this role in the Position Description. You'll be able to complete your online application form and upload a copy of your CV/Cover Letter.
Please note, while we may be reviewing applications as they are received and may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position.
For tracking and evaluation purposes, all applications must be submitted via our on-line process. You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be eligible for this position.
You may notice that the Position Description title for this role Digital Specialist level 3 doesn't match the advertised title. At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks). This means our position descriptions are broad, one position description can cover many roles, this is known as Broad Based Role (BBR). Using BBR allows us to be responsive to our customers and to strengthen the connections across our organisation. It also gives us the flexibility to provide wider opportunities to our people, to further their careers.
If you have any questions about this role or working at Toitū Te Whenua, please email opportunities@linz.govt.nz and our People Services Team will be in touch with you.