Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer-2400416

 

IT INFRASTRUCTURE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

If you’re looking for your next exciting challenge, IT starts here at the University of Otago, IT Infrastructure team.  

Right now we have a need for a motivated and skilled engineer to help improve and maintain the reliability of the many corporate systems we support. Interested? 
•    Experience in one of the country's most complex IT environments.
•    Great people and a collaborative IT culture.
•    Awesome employee benefits, WFH and flexi work options.
•    Competitive salary and 5 weeks annual leave.

Te mahi/ The Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will support and maintain both legacy and modern infrastructure and software frameworks that play a major role in the design, build, operations, and build of the infrastructure underpinning the University's data centre services, monitoring, and reporting platforms. 

You will work closely with the other technical infrastructure teams to provide effective, reliable, and robust deployments and secure integration activities such as maintainable product deployments, design and build of support infrastructure, including containerization platforms, CI/CD services, message-brokers, application proxies.
Ideally, you will be the type of person that enjoys working in agile environments, applying flexible infrastructure-as-code and related DevOps methodologies to product support infrastructure and using automation technology to enable our wider team to deploy, manage, configure, scale and monitor their applications locally and in the cloud. 

Kā pūkeka me kā wheako / Skills and experience

•    Previous experience working in a programming / service monitoring / integration or DevOps focused role. 
•    Distributed or cloud solutions / service deployment experience. 
•    Exposure to development, deployment, automation and orchestration of APIs, containers or serverless architecture units. 
•    Full-stack software development and/or integration / customisation experience.

Mō te tīma / About our Team

At the University of Otago, you would be joining the team responsible for empowering the future of New Zealand thinkers every day. You will be making learning easier for 21,000 students, setting 5,000+ staff up for success, and enabling the ground-breaking research which kick-starts innovations to benefit generations to come.

Pūroko / Further details

This is a full-time (37.5 hours per week), permanent position, located in Dunedin.

The salary range for this position is $75,380 to $94,075 per annum.

Applications from candidates with Māori and Pacific backgrounds or strong competencies in these areas are warmly encouraged.

You must have a right to live and work in New Zealand to apply for this position.

For further information, or to discuss the role in confidence – please contact Andrew Foster via the contact details below.

Tono / Application

To submit your application (including CV and cover letter) please quote reference 2400416 and click the apply button below. 

There is no formal closing date. Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates may be invited to interview immediately. The University reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time.

Additional Information

Contact: Andrew Foster    Tel: +64 021 917 157

Position details: Job Description

Further Information: Department Website

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Location: About Dunedin

Primary Location
 NZL-SI-Dunedin
Employment Status
 Permanent 
Salary Level and Range Level 7 (Range of Appointments $75,380 to $84,656, Top of Range $94,075)
Organisation
 Infrastructure and Applications
Job Function
 Computer Network and Support