DevOps Engineer - AWS - Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington - 62387 - Spark

General information

Location

Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington

Expertise

Client Delivery, Infrastructure, Technology

Job Level

Experienced

Employment Type

Permanent full-time

Close Date

10-Oct-2025

Ref #

62387

Description & Requirements

Spark NZ

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.

We’re looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer with a strong software development background. You will design and implement scalable infrastructure on AWS, build automation, and develop tooling and pipelines that improve software delivery and reliability. This role emphasizes coding and engineering solutions, not just operations.

Responsibilities:

Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
Implement and modify software running on both on AWS and Linux using Python.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for system health and performance.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline builds, testing, and deployments.
Consult and communicate with clients to help them achieve their AWS goals.
Maintain a production system utilizing AI inference.

Qualifications:

Professional manner suitable for dealing with external customers.
Excellent communication skills.
5+ years of DevOps + software engineering experience.
Strong coding skills in at least one language (Python, Go, Rust, JS etc.).
Production experience with AWS services (ECS, Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch).
Experience with Azure DevOps/Github or similar.
Hands-on experience in Terraform.
Experience with CI/CD platforms (AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, ECS etc).
Solid Linux and Docker knowledge.
Familiarity with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
Security and compliance awareness in cloud environments.

Nice to Have:

Computer Science degree.
Computer Vision experience.
Production experience with serverless workloads.
AWS certs demonstrating a desire to learn.
Background in building internal Dev tooling and developer platforms.

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).

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