Move to New Zealand - Systems Reliability Engineer
Propellerhead15 days ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design cloud deployment architectures on Microsoft Azure alongside core development teams.
- Lead provisioning of deployment environments, including servers, services, networking, and communication with technical client stakeholders.
- Implement security, scalability, supportability, and performance considerations in solution architectures.
- Assist development teams with continuous integration and deployment pipelines and carry out releases where automation is incomplete.
- Configure monitoring and alerting tools and integrate them with support desk software.
- Triage and troubleshoot support tickets, diagnose and remediate reactive issues, and participate in shared after-hours on-call.
- Complete incident reports, implement mitigations, monitor incident progress, and communicate status updates to clients.
- Design and implement continuous improvement programs to reduce recurring support issues and automate repetitive tasks.
- Document system architecture and configuration or deployment processes with AI assistance and share technical knowledge across teams.
Requirements
- Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent.
- Comfort using AI to diagnose, script, automate, and document work within an AI-assisted delivery pipeline.
- Expertise developing scalable web applications.
- Some proficiency in Rust, Java, .NET, or Go, plus experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, ReactJS, AngularJS, or similar frontend frameworks.
- Scripting experience with PowerShell, Ruby, Python, shell, or other common scripting languages.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure deployment architectures, Microsoft DevOps deployment pipelines, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.
- Experience administering Linux cloud-based server environments and troubleshooting and configuring virtual networks.
- Familiarity with New Relic, Dynatrace, or similar monitoring frameworks, including dashboards and alerting integrations.
- Some experience with AWS and Bamboo or Bitbucket Pipelines is advantageous.
- Ability to work across different technologies and complex environments and remain calm during high-priority issue resolution.
- Good judgment in verifying AI-generated diagnoses and a strong desire to learn and upskill.
- Must be based in Auckland or planning to relocate there; regular office attendance is required.
Benefits
- Innovative, learning-focused, collaborative team culture.
- Interesting and diverse work for respected commercial, nonprofit, and government clients.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
- Fortnightly knowledge-sharing sessions with lunch.
- Employee Share Purchase Scheme.
- Competitive salary.
- Hybrid work from home and the Auckland office, with office attendance required three days per week and occasionally as needed.
- Final recruitment stage requires an in-person interview in New Zealand.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Propellerhead
Propellerhead is a New Zealand software consultancy that designs, builds, and maintains large-scale custom digital platforms for enterprises and public‑sector clients. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Auckland, it is a privately held technology partner focused on open‑source development, agile delivery, and emerging identity standards such as verifiable credentials and self‑sovereign identity. The team also works with linked open data and decentralized web technologies.