DevOps Platform Engineer

September 20, 2024

TOWER Insurance

Auckland City

OTHER

Why you'll love working with Tower
At Tower, we live and breathe our values - they are at the heart of every interaction. Our people come first, we pride ourselves on creating a diverse and inclusive space that allows our people to thrive. Encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, we aim to represent the diverse communities we work in and with.
We also have a plan to lead our industry forward into a more customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking, as a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider operating for over 150 years, with roots all the way back to Dunedin.

What will you be doing?
Reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager, this role as part of the Platform Engineering team will support our journey to a more inclusive SRE/Dev Ops culture at Tower.
You can expect to be across the following:

Perform operational support and management of our Azure Cloud Platform and associated observability capabilities.

Operational support and management of VMs running Windows and Linux operating systems

Manage Azure resources with Terraform Cloud - including cost optimisation, right-sizing, tagging.

Create, extend, and troubleshoot build, release, and deployment pipelines.

Configuration management as code via Ansible.

Support technology teams to deploy application specific updates.

Provide technical direction and advice for Azure cloud services.

Write documentation around new processes and standard operating procedures.

Share expertise and knowledge across technical teams, contribute to team strategy.

Apply a rational and reasoned approach to problem solving to produce viable solutions.

Ensure tooling and frameworks are fit for purpose, efficient, scalable, and maintainable and are applicable to Tower's Cloud strategy.

Ensure that automation assets and processes are sharable across teams to enable re-use and standardization.

Help us to bring a more unified SRE/Dev Ops culture to the Engineering teams at Tower.

What you'll need
To be successful in this role, you will also be able to demonstrate the following:

Real world IT infrastructure operational experience with recent active experience in public cloud domains.

Practical and current experience working in a SRE/Platform Engineering environment.

Able to operate independently and work collaboratively with colleagues across all teams.

Sound knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azures cloud platform and services.

Understand concepts of identity management and role-based access control.

Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes, Jenkins & Groovy.

Real world familiarity with Power Shell, MSSQL, SQL Clusters and Windows Server.

Experience with configuring and maintaining monitoring & alerting for infrastructure & services.

Familiarity with provisioning services through 'Infrastructure as Code' techniques and practices.

Excellent planning, time management, organisation, and communication skills.

We do what's right; if you feel comfortable doing so, please let us know early in the process if there are any diversity needs, we can meet or make reasonable adjustments to enable you to shine. If you would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. We are proud holders of the Rainbow and DV Free Ticks which are important to us.
We are seriously committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome any successful candidate to get involved in one of our Inclusion Network Groups, which will help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

What we'll bring to the table
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.
Highlights Include:

16 weeks paid leave for the primary carer and four weeks paid leave for partners, for our Tower whānau in New Zealand and the Pacific

A paid day off on your birthday and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off!

Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing

Career growth - we promote internal capability; and support you with design-specific development and training opportunities; we also have programmes that recognise star performers

Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful new Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas

Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%

Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary

Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club, Warehouse Stationery and more

Apply now
Please note: We're eager to get the right person on board as soon as possible. We don't have set closing dates, so we'll start reviewing applications as they come in. Don't wait—apply now to make sure you're considered.

We regret to inform you that this job opportunity is no longer available