About us
At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.
Mō te tūranga | About the Role
As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the engineering, automation, operational support, and continuous improvement of critical platform services.
Working within a collaborative engineering team, you'll help deliver highly available and secure platforms that support application deployment, integration, observability, and operational excellence.
You'll contribute to the full platform lifecycle, including architecture, deployment automation, maintenance, capacity planning, security hardening, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and continuous optimisation.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
Strong experience administering Linux-based systems and platforms.
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes and/or OpenShift environments.
- Sound understanding of networking concepts.
- Experience with databases and storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, or object storage platforms.
- Knowledge of high availability, resilience, clustering, disaster recovery, and failover architectures.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable tools.
- Understanding of GitOps and modern platform delivery practices.
- Experience with platform security, identity management, and access control.
- Knowledge of authentication and federation technologies such as LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, and OIDC.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and platform health management.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins or CloudBees.
- Experience with Bitbucket, Jira, SonarQube, and related DevOps tooling.
- Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
- Experience working within highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Exposure to cloud platforms and container ecosystem technologies.
Skills Required
- Strong experience administering Linux-based systems and platforms.
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes and/or OpenShift environments.
- Sound understanding of networking concepts.
- Experience with databases and storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, or object storage platforms.
- Knowledge of high availability, resilience, clustering, disaster recovery, and failover architectures.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable tools.
- Understanding of GitOps and modern platform delivery practices.
- Experience with platform security, identity management, and access control.
- Knowledge of authentication and federation technologies such as LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, and OIDC.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and platform health management.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins or CloudBees.
- Experience with Bitbucket, Jira, SonarQube, and related DevOps tooling.
- Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
- Experience working within highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Exposure to cloud platforms and container ecosystem technologies.
Westpac Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Westpac and has not been reviewed or approved by Westpac.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Extensive paid and unpaid leave options span wellbeing leave, Culture/Lifestyle/Wellbeing days, purchased leave up to 12 weeks, career breaks, and various specialized leaves. This breadth supports work-life balance and accommodates a wide range of personal circumstances.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental provisions include 16 weeks full pay (or 32 at half pay) for primary carers, four weeks for support carers, and continued superannuation during unpaid parental leave. Additional supports cover domestic and family violence leave, Family Pathways leave, and grandparental leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include counselling and coaching services, workplace mental health training, free nutrition advice, and health insurance access with pre‑existing conditions covered if joined promptly. Financial and lifestyle perks include banking discounts for employees and families and the myDiscounts program.
Westpac Insights
What We Do
Westpac is Australia’s oldest bank and company, one of four major banking organisations in Australia and one of the largest banks in New Zealand. We provide a broad range of banking and financial services in these markets, including consumer, business and institutional banking and wealth management services. We also have offices in key financial centres around the world including London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Westpac Group's portfolio of financial services brands and businesses is focused on our vision, which is "To be one of the world’s great service companies, helping our customers, communities and people to prosper and grow.”
