Tech DevOps Lead - Auckland - 63954 - Spark

General information

Location

Auckland

Expertise

Software Development

Job Level

Experienced

Employment Type

Permanent full-time

Close Date

30-May-2026

Ref #

63954

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.

About the Role:

A note on the title: at Spark, “Tech DevOps Lead” is our senior engineering lead title. This one is web — hands-on React and Next.js, leading the team, and owning platform performance in production.

Reporting to the Digital Chapter Lead, you’ll share leadership of the web space with a peer Tech DevOps Lead — together leading development across our customer-facing digital platforms, powering how customers browse, buy, and manage their services online. This is a frontend-heavy role using React, Next.js, and TypeScript — where you’ll champion modern web engineering practices.

Day to day you will be involved in:

Lead web development — Architect, build, and ship production-grade web experiences that customers browse, buy, and manage their services on. Partner with your peer lead on shared standards, and own the lightweight Node.js BFF layer where needed.

• Own platform health — Performance monitoring, error tracking, incident response, and production stability across the web stack.

• Set the engineering bar — Clear patterns, reusable components, Jest and React Testing Library for robust component and integration testing, and security practices appropriate for a telco ecommerce platform.

• Lead with AI, lead with judgement — Empower the team to use AI coding agents as everyday tools, with ownership, critical review, and accountability for what ships.

• Lead and grow the team — Mentor web developers through code reviews, pairing, and technical direction, including the onshore and offshore partners who deliver alongside you.

• Partner across squads and disciplines — Work with designers, product owners, architects, and Mobile/DevOps Leads to unblock delivery and align on shared standards and tooling.

• Contribute to technical direction — Work with the Chapter Lead and peer leads to shape the roadmap, manage technical risk, and evolve the web space over time.

What experience you'll bring?

You’ll bring 7+ years of professional software development experience, with strong recent experience in React, TypeScript, and Next.js in production, and a proven track record shipping and operating high-traffic web experiences at scale — ideally in ecommerce or transactional digital platforms. You’ll have experience with headless CMS platforms, GraphQL and REST APIs, CSS-in-JS, and component-driven development, plus working knowledge of Node.js. You’ll have experience mentoring and guiding developers, and be comfortable with production ownership and AI-assisted development tools. Familiarity with web performance (Core Web Vitals), accessibility standards, design systems, testing (Jest, React Testing Library), and CI/CD rounds it out.

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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