He kōrero mō mātou | About Watercare
Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata
When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy
Now is an exciting time to join Watercare, we're planning to spend $14 billion over the next 10 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. When you average that out, that's an investment of $3.8 million every day!
He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role
As a DevOps Engineer, you will support the delivery, automation, and operation of Watercare’s digital applications and platforms. This role focuses on improving deployment reliability, development workflows, and operational stability through automation, collaboration, and modern DevOps practices. You will work closely with software engineers, testers, and infrastructure teams to enable efficient CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and production support.
In this role you will:
Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across development, test, and production environments.
Support automated build, test, release, and deployment processes.
Enable applications to be deployable, observable, and reliable.
Assist with infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code.
Support production environments, including troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
Contribute to improving deployment speed, reliability, and operational consistency.
Collaborate with developers, testers, and engineers to support application delivery and participate in agile ceremonies.
Support cloud infrastructure, containerised workloads, source control, and automation scripting.
Troubleshoot issues across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you
You are a hands‑on engineer who works confidently across development and operations. You enjoy solving problems, improving systems, and using automation to enhance delivery speed and reliability. You’re collaborative, pragmatic, and enjoy working closely with others to improve how applications are built, tested, deployed, and supported.
You’ll excel if you:
Communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Work comfortably across cloud environments, CI/CD tools, and containerised workloads.
Take initiative, manage priorities independently, and thrive in agile ways of working.
Bring a practical, solutions‑focused mindset with a strong interest in automation and continuous improvement.
To be considered for this role you will:
Have experience working in a DevOps or SRE‑style role supporting software delivery.
Have practical experience with AWS or Azure and an understanding of cloud networking, compute, and storage fundamentals.
Have experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
Be confident working with Docker and container‑based deployments.
Have strong experience using Git and version control best practices.
Have experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
Bring scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
Be capable of troubleshooting and resolving issues across multiple systems.
Have experience working in agile development environments.
Desirable
Familiarity with a programming language such as C#, Java, TypeScript, or Python.
Understanding of application architecture and the software development lifecycle.
Experience with unit testing frameworks or test automation concepts.
Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
Ngā hua mōu | What's in it for you
We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
• Training and development opportunities
• Life and income protection insurance plans
• Generous parental leave
• Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
Me pēhea te tono mai | How to Apply
Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today - careers.watercare.co.nz.
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What We Do
At Watercare we’re proud to provide a lifeline service to the people of Auckland, while protecting the environment for future generations.
Every day we provide the highest quality drinking water to 1.7 million Aucklanders, and take it away again once it’s been used in the sink or flushed down the loo. Without using chemicals, we treat wastewater to a very high standard and safely return it to the environment.
We also plan for new and upgraded infrastructure far into the future to ensure we can meet the needs of our fast-growing city.
We operate assets worth more than $9 billion – but it’s our people who are our most valuable assets.
Our staff are passionate, motivated and trustworthy people who are the leaders in their fields. They’re not afraid of a challenge and are constantly looking for new ways of improving our processes and the service we offer our customers.
If this sounds like you, please visit our careers centre to see our job vacancies and be notified of future opportunities: https://careers.watercare.co.nz
