Senior Platform Engineer

Kia ora!

At Air New Zealand, we’re on a journey to reimagine and elevate our digital platforms. Cloud computing enables us to modernize and consolidate infrastructure, automate workflows, and drive next-gen innovation, all powered by a robust multi-cloud strategy across AWS and Azure.

We’re now looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong DevOps experience, or a software engineer ready to evolve into the platform engineering discipline to join our DevOps Chapter. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in building microservices and distributed systems who’s eager to shape the future of platforms and developer experience at Air New Zealand.

The Role You’ll Play

As a senior engineer, you will:

• Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services that empower product teams to build, deploy, and operate with speed and confidence.
• Lead CI/CD platform development, owning the build, test, and deployment systems that underpin dozens of applications.
• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code, driving reliability, consistency, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, SREs, and security specialists to deliver secure, observable, and resilient platforms.
• Mentor and support engineers growing their DevOps and platform capabilities — fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
• Contribute to and influence platform strategy, tooling decisions, and technical direction across the organisation.
• Support key platforms such as Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, API Gateway, and Kafka, helping ensure their scalability, reliability, and performance.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years’ experience in software or platform engineering, ideally with exposure to microservices architecture and cloud-native development.
• A strong interest in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure, and a desire to deepen your expertise in this space.
• Proven skills in CI/CD principles, DevSecOps practices, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps toolsets (Pipelines, Repos) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).
• Hands-on experience with modern programming or scripting languages (Python, Java, Go, Bash, etc.)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• AWS or Azure certification (preferred).
• A collaborative and curious mindset — you thrive on solving complex problems and helping others succeed.
• A solid understanding of cloud architecture, security, and automation best practices.

Ready for take-off?

This is your opportunity to help shape the platforms that power one of New Zealand's most recognised brands. You'll work with modern cloud technologies, solve meaningful engineering challenges, and be part of a collaborative team that values curiosity, continuous learning, and innovation. If you're excited by the opportunity to grow your platform engineering expertise while making a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work. As part of Air New Zealand, you'll enjoy benefits including generous staff travel, the opportunity to purchase up to four additional weeks of FlexiLeave each year, ongoing learning and development opportunities, and access to a wide range of employee discounts and wellbeing support.

Applications close 8th September 2026.

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."