Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we’re shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Mō te tūranga - About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join ANZ’s Payments Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, which plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our Payments platform. The SRE chapter operates as an autonomous unit while collaborating closely with build and run squads across ANZ.

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll be a senior technical specialist focused on database reliability, performance, compliance, and developer enablement across on‑prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. You’ll work hands-on with modern cloud technologies while influencing best practices, and driving automation and observability in database operations.

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like

Your day will involve managing and optimizing database services across GCP, AWS, and on‑prem environments, ensuring resilience, security, and high performance. You’ll support migrations from on‑prem to cloud, automate workflows, and embed compliance and governance controls. You’ll collaborate with developers, and Site Reliability engineers to improve developer experience and reduce operational toil through tooling and documentation.

Other responsibilities include:

• Optimize and support Cloud Native databases
• Manage and administer relational and NoSQL databases
• Support database transitions from on‑prem to Cloud and hybrid environments.
• Perform database backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security management.
• Champion automation using IaC tools, including database change automation
• Build internal tooling and documentation to improve developer experience with database services.
• Explore and apply AI‑driven solutions
• Contribute to SRE practices including observability, incident response, and error‑budget aligned operations.

Role Location: Wellington or Auckland
Role Type: Permanent

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Strong hands‑on experience with Cloud databases (e.g. Cloud Spanner, BigQuery) and relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Expertise in NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch)
• Experience in database migrations between on‑prem and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in database backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security management.
• Experience in Terraform, Git, Codefresh, Python, and CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of ETL/ELT workflows and data integration patterns.
• Understanding of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, incident response, observability) and ability to define/measure DB‑focused SLIs
• Familiarity with observability tooling and centralized logging/tracing.
• Experience with data compliance and security tooling (IAM, encryption, auditing).
• Awareness of FinOps practices for data platforms (cost governance for BigQuery/Spanner and data pipelines).
• Interest or experience in AI‑driven database engineering (e.g., query tuning, anomaly detection, usage pattern analysis).
• Ability to influence technical practices within the team, with strong collaboration and stakeholder communication skills.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ, a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.  

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.  

We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.    

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.  

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 107691.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

Sunday 15 February 2026 at 11:59pm (NZ)