55199 DevOps Engineer - Plant & Food Research

DevOps Engineer
Technology Services: Finance, Information and Infrastructure
Auckland or Te Puke
Vacancy number: 55199
Permanent fulltime (38 hours per week)

Plant and Food are seeking a talented and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in enhancing our development processes, optimizing infrastructure, and improving deployment pipelines to ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems.

What you will be doing | Ngā whāinga matua

Our DevOps engineers facilitate collaboration and communication between development (Dev) and operations (Ops) teams, aiming to streamline the software development process and improve the quality and speed of software delivery. The DevOps role will focus on automating and optimizing processes related to infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and testing. They also work on implementing and maintaining tools and practices that enable continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure as code (IaC). 

The goal of the DevOps role is to foster a culture of collaboration, efficiency, and continuous improvement within an organization's software development and delivery pipeline.

What you will bring | Ngā tino pūkenga me ngā wheako

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong expertise in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Proficient in using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred Skills:

• Certification in relevant technologies (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Docker Certified Associate).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools such as ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.

What you will get | Ngā hua o tēnei tūranga

We offer excellent employee benefits including generous leave provisions, and the opportunity to work within a friendly, team-based environment.  You will lead and contribute to exciting projects with an organisation that has an excellent reputation for its science and impact! 

• Additional 6 days leave and generous paid parental leave
• Ongoing career development opportunities
• Flexible work - work from home and flexible hours
• The option of subsidised health insurance and additional employer superannuation contribution
• Focus on health and wellbeing with enhanced sick leave

About us | Ko wai mātou

At Plant & Food Research, we believe science can create a better future. By finding smarter, greener options today, we're helping secure the world we want to live in tomorrow. With our partners, we use world-leading science to improve the way they grow, fish, harvest, create, prepare and share food. Every day, we have 1000 people working across Aotearoa New Zealand and the world to help deliver healthy foods from the world's most sustainable systems.