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

As a Senior Automation Engineer in our Technology Operations domain, you’ll play a key role in helping to develop and support ANZ's Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure services through application of DevOps methodologies and principles. This role is responsible for the design, implementation and quality of both on-premises private cloud and public cloud based solutions.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Location: Auckland or Wellington

Role Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours

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

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and quality of our Hybrid cloud-based solutions, helping application teams consume our new cloud native application platform, build out infrastructure as code, building CI/CD pipelines and support production releases. You’ll be using automation to deliver infrastructure, applications and fully automate our security and governance controls.

The role involves design, development and support of both on-premises private cloud solutions through Devops Config management tooling such as Puppet in addition to Public cloud infrastructure.

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you are expected to:

• Proactively identify and call out delivery, security and operational risks and help to identify and deliver appropriate cloud features, controls, or mitigations, including risks to other parts of the organisation. 
• Work with business stakeholders to identify and understand key business value and risks of cloud hosted and cloud native services to identify and implement improvements to reduce the risk of change and outages to those services
• Be able to adapt to both traditional on-premises technologies such as Virtualisation platforms, Windows Active directory, Group policy, Linux administration as well as Public cloud infrastructure Pipelines and Infra as code assets.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

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

• Ability to apply knowledge and theory, with demonstrated experience producing quality outcomes. 
• Sound judgement to solve problems and to articulate the rationale behind the solutions you are proposing.
• Experience operating Cloud technology at scale, using GCP or AWS
• Experience with traditional On-Premises Virtualised infrastructure support and relevant technologies used on-premises.
• Proficiency in technical subject matter expertise and practical experience in the following technologies:  Cloud infrastructure as code (IAC) tooling preferably Terraform and/or CloudFormation, Azure RM or Similar technologies.
• Experience with ServiceNow from private Cloud Platforms would be beneficial
• Coding experience in one or more languages (bash, JavaScript, Golang, Python, Powershell, etc), and you use these skills to automate as much as possible
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform/Cloudformation, along with continuous integration/delivery tooling such as Bitbucket/GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build/CodeFresh/Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with virtualisation platforms used on-premises including Hyper-V or relevant VMware skills
• A understanding of TLS/SSL data encryption and authentication protocols
• Extensive experience working within cross-functional, agile or continuous delivery teams

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 118836.

Job Posting End Date

02/08/2026, 11.59pm, (New Zealand)