Sr Distributed Systems Engineer (DevOps)

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Full time
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11/11/2026
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Auckland, New Zealand

Responsibilities

Design infrastructure and automated systems supporting distributed architectures.
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines while improving reliability, deployment speed, and change lead time.
Trace infrastructure and application performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations.
Collaborate with engineering teams to meet customer SLO and SLA requirements.
Maintain highly available web and backend systems serving millions of users and thousands of requests per second.
Configure AWS cloud services with developers to support new feature development.
Secure cloud and application infrastructure using IAM and PKI.
Build and expand infrastructure and business-operations monitoring and alerting systems.
Establish infrastructure-as-code coverage across the platform.
Develop developer productivity tools and automate manual operational processes.

Requirements

7+ years of DevOps experience.
5+ years of database administration experience with Postgres, MariaDB, and MSSQL.
4+ years orchestrating large-scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.
4+ years building and managing EKS clusters with strong Kubernetes ecosystem knowledge.
BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in large-scale systems.
Deep AWS expertise, including multi-region environments managed with Terraform.
Ability to build infrastructure automation tooling and services using Python, TypeScript, Go, or Bash.
Advanced experience with Kubernetes and Docker, including Service Mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
Experience scaling and troubleshooting PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
Experience building monitoring and logging stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenSearch.
Experience integrating security-focused pipelines into GitHub CI or GitLab CI.
Ability to debug and optimize complex systems from low-level networking through application-layer logic.
Security-focused experience with infrastructure-as-code, container builds, and microservice deployments.

Benefits

Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.
Remote home-office employees may also come together in company offices for important moments.
Workday provides reasonable accommodations during the application process and for qualified individuals.

Workday

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