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 a fantastic opportunity for a technically skilled and support-oriented individual to join ANZ’s Open Banking Platform Team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of ANZ’s Open Banking ecosystem.

You’ll work across a diverse technology stack, applying modern SRE practices to maintain and improve the health of our infrastructure, applications, and integrations.

Role Location: This role can be based in Wellington

Role Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Standard) with some out of hours requirements contributing to a 24/7 roster.

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

As a Site Reliability Engineer in Open Banking at ANZ, you’ll play a key role in shaping and growing the SRE function. Your day will be a mix of proactive engineering, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous improvement. You’ll apply SRE principles to automate and scale our platforms, embed security and governance controls, and ensure our services are resilient, observable, and customer-focused. You’ll work closely with developers, DBAs, and security teams to maintain high availability and performance across our systems, while also contributing to incident response and recovery planning. Other responsibilities include:

• Apply SRE principles to monitor, measure, and improve service reliability and performance.
• Automate platform operations and embed security and governance controls at scale.
• Manage OpenShift and AWS microservices, ensuring they are resilient, scalable, and well-instrumented.
• Lead incident response and postmortem reviews to drive learning and prevent recurrence.
• Design and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Dynatrace, Splunk, and ElasticSearch.
• Collaborate with teams to optimise databases, messaging systems, and API security protocols.
• Maintain certificate lifecycles and ensure seamless backend integrations with banking services.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

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

• Experience with OpenShift, AWS, and containerised microservices.
• A collaborative mindset and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Comfort working across teams and disciplines, with a focus on shared success.
• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Experience in application or infrastructure support, with a background in SysOps or DevOps.
• Proficiency in scripting or development—ideally with Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, or Python.
• Strong Linux/Unix skills and familiarity with enterprise-grade platforms.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift, Docker, and cloud-native technologies (especially AWS).
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, and ElasticSearch.
• Familiarity with messaging systems (NATS), databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), and API security protocols (OAuth2).
• Understanding of ITIL practices, particularly incident and problem management.
• Experience instrumenting monitoring and logging of applications.
• Ability to assess, define, and implement fit-for-purpose, cost-effective engineering solutions and toolsets.

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 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?

There's something special about being part of ANZ, you're part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.  Our teams do this by helping people make the most of what they have, to transform ideas, hard work and ambition into reality.

Career development means different things to different people. It may simply mean developing a skill, broadening your experience by moving sideways or stretching yourself by moving to a different business. How you manage and develop your career is up to you. That's why we're committed to helping you do this by providing you with the support, tools and resources you need to take the next big step in your career, towards even bigger things with us in the future.

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 a disability or access requirements, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

Sunday 10 August at 11.59pm, (NZ)