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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: 

You will be part of the orchestration chapter and be responsible for designing, developing, unit testing, and resolving orchestration application work items with significant autonomy and independence. The scope of work includes minor enhancements to complex projects.

Day to day you will be involved in: 

• Design, implement, and maintain service orchestration applications.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Write testable, scalable, and efficient code.
• Provide support for functional and non-functional testing.
• Troubleshoot applications by analysing log files and identifying root causes.

What experience you'll bring?

• Extensive development experience with Java programming frameworks, including Java 11+ and the Spring Boot framework.
• Good understanding of Microservices architecture.
• Expertise with the Azure DevOps platform, hands-on experience with ADO pipeline (yaml ), build agent, bash, and Python scripts
• Skilled in configuring APM tools such as AppDynamics, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Familiarity with container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and/or Cucumber.
• Experience working with AGILE development methodologies.

Good to have

• Knowledge in frontend technologies such as React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Knowledge of BPMN tools like Camunda or any other similar leading products.
• Hands-on experience with integration technologies, including SOAP, REST, and MQ.
• Proficient in working with databases such as Oracle or PostgreSQL

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).