DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Wellington (Hybrid)

Salary: $126,000 - $155,000 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Wellington Data Systems provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management. Most work comes in through ConnectWise tickets, with a dispatch board for onsite visits.

The position

You'll sit between development and operations, fixing broken pipelines, writing automation and keeping environments consistent. DevOps role with a strong infrastructure-as-code focus. Most of what we run is defined in Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions. Hybrid: two days in the office in Wellington, the rest from home.

Your responsibilities

Participate in on-call and incident response. Automate server configuration with Ansible. Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM. Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch. Document runbooks and infrastructure standards. Handle secrets with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault. Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell.

About you

3+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role. Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS). Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management. Scripting in Bash and Python. Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts.

What you get

KiwiSaver contributions. Five weeks annual leave after the first year. Employee assistance programme. Annual bonus.

Applications close when we find the right person.

You must have the right to work in New Zealand.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wellington Data Systems.