DevOps Lead

This pivotal role is designed for someone who thrives on guiding the implementation of modern DevOps practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and supporting the delivery of critical digital solutions that underpin essential services. You will be at the heart of a collaborative ICT group, working alongside talented professionals to ensure robust, secure, and efficient technology operations.

What you'll do:

As a DevOps Lead based in Wellington, you will play an instrumental role in advancing the organisation’s digital capabilities by embedding robust DevOps practices throughout the ICT group. Your day-to-day activities will involve collaborating with diverse technical teams to design automated CI/CD pipelines that support mission-critical applications. You will be responsible for developing clear governance frameworks that ensure consistency across projects while also championing health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives within your team. By mentoring engineers and facilitating training workshops, you will help build capability across the department. Your expertise will be called upon when engaging with senior leaders to shape strategic direction or when troubleshooting complex issues in live environments. Success in this role means not only delivering reliable technology solutions but also fostering an environment where innovation flourishes and every team member feels supported.

What you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field is required for this position.
• Proven experience in a DevOps-focused role with demonstrable leadership skills in process implementation within large-scale environments.
• Comprehensive understanding of modern DevOps tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform as well as cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Ability to develop detailed documentation for processes while ensuring governance structures meet industry best practice standards.
• Experience mentoring or training technical staff; ability to foster knowledge-sharing within multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills enabling effective collaboration with development teams, quality analysts, change managers, incident responders, security specialists and operations personnel.
• Demonstrated capability in building automation systems for CI/CD pipelines including aligning tooling across departments for maximum efficiency.
• Familiarity with observability concepts including monitoring/logging toolsets; able to implement metrics that track team health or system performance.
• Adept at managing vendor relationships for technology products/services; able to evaluate new tools or approaches that could benefit organisational outcomes.
• Understanding of security compliance requirements; experience integrating security tools/practices into deployment pipelines (DevSecOps).

What's next:

If you are ready to make a real difference through your expertise in DevOps while enjoying flexibility support and genuine opportunities for growth apply now!

Apply today by clicking on the link provided—your next rewarding career move awaits.

Robert Walters endeavours to review all applications in a maximum of five working days. If you have not received correspondence in this timeframe please do not hesitate to contact Sean Caulfield on +64 4 471 9732.