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As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses. 

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand. 

About the Role: 

As an Automation Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining automation solutions that improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability across our services. You’ll work closely with Product, Delivery, and Operations teams to automate processes, systems, and workflows.

You’ll contribute to the development of robust automation frameworks, support the rollout of automated solutions into BAU, and help drive continuous improvement across service delivery. Your work will directly impact service quality, speed to market, and customer experience.

You’ll also collaborate with the wider Engineering teams to ensure automation standards, tools, and practices are fit for purpose and aligned with the needs of our Enterprise customers.

Day to day you will be involved in: 

·   Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand existing processes, re-engineer where required, and design and build effective automation solutions

·   Own and maintain existing automation solutions, proactively optimising performance, reliability, and scalability as needs evolve

·   Troubleshoot automation-related issues, performing root cause analysis and driving timely, sustainable resolutions

·   Contribute to the development and adoption of automation standards, frameworks, and best practices across the organisation

What experience you'll bring?

·   2+ years of hands-on experience in automation development or a related engineering role

·   Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, .NET

·   Experience executing and testing APIs using tools such as Postman and Curl

·   Working knowledge of databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Snowflake

·   Basic understanding of cloud platforms, services and AI.

·   Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and ways of working

·   Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, version control, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes

·   A collaborative, proactive “can-do” attitude, with a strong willingness to learn and grow across different technologies and domains

WHY CHOOSE US: 

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai 

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture.  Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices.  We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability. 

Sustainability: Toitū

 Sustainability is a key focus for us.  We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation.  The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion. 

Benefits: Awhina 

 Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including: 

• Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection.  Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme. 

• Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible. 

• Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.

• Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products. 

• Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme. 

• Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining). <remove sentence if not relevant or speak to your HR Partner for advice>