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 building, evolving, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our Payments Engineering Delivery Platform. The SRE chapter operates as an autonomous unit while collaborating closely with build and run squads across ANZ.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be a senior technical specialist focused on the reliability, performance and compliance of Payments Engineering Delivery Platform across hybrid, and cloud environments. You’ll work hands-on with modern cloud technologies, Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD pipeline while influencing best practices, and driving automation and observability in platform operations.

Role Location: Wellington or Auckland

Role Type: Permanent

Hours: Standard 37.5 hours per week

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

Your day will be a mix of proactive engineering, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous improvement. You’ll apply SRE principles to build, automate and scale platforms, embedding security and compliance controls, and ensuring services are resilient, observable, and customer-focused. You’ll collaborate with developers, database engineers, Cloud engineers and security teams to maintain high availability and performance across our systems, while contributing to incident response and recovery planning.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

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

• Proven hands-on experience in Cloud Services ideally within GCP/AWS
• Kubernetes experience and container orchestration expertise.
• Have solid hands-on experience with Terraform, GitOps, GitHub automation workflows, orchestration tools, and establishing CI/CD pipelines for Cloud.
• Experience with observability tools such as Cloud monitoring and logging, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to work autonomously and in a team environment.
• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and observability.
• Interest in AI-driven engineering
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, being able to communicate at all levels.
• Self-managing and a self-starter.

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 112535.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

Sunday 12 April at 11.59pm (NZ)