Senior DevOps Engineer Job in New Zealand Recruiting by Sinch

Sinch ClickSend is a global cloud-based SaaS communications platform for businesses and developers that enables companies of all shapes and sizes to easily and cost effectively communicate with their customers and staff via multiple channels. Sinch ClickSend has SMS at its core and powers billions of messages annually but has expanded to become a true all-in-one multi-channel business communications platform offering SMS, MMS, RCS, Email, Voice, Fax and Post by dashboard, API or hundreds of integrations.

We’re a small team based in Perth, Western Australia, but we’re a global brand with offices in the US, UK and Philippines. We’re part of Sinch, one of the biggest cloud communications companies on the planet based in Stockholm, and have all the benefits of being part of a larger group but we retain our ‘start-up’ mentality. We maintain a spectacular work life balance and try to mix fun and music into our days.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and report into our Head of Engineering. Providing subject matter expertise and execution across technologies that meet customer requirements for rapid service delivery, reliability and innovation. You will be a key member in a strong team of DevOps Engineers who assist in maintaining a portfolio of software applications and continuous integration/deployment across the organisation. Working collaboratively with key stakeholders, product and engineering leaders to deliver complex and innovative solutions in alignment with Sinch ClickSend technology strategy and architecture.

Key responsibilities:

• Play a key role in driving cultural shift towards DevOps and SRE delivery best practices across the organisation.
• Deliver continuous integration / continuous delivery processes, practices, and platforms.
• Discover, prioritise and implement constant improvements to the ways of working and processes within the DevOps team and across the product-engineering squads.
• Involved in hands-on work across infrastructure as code, CI/CD and automation as well as security.
• Design and develop self-service solutions for the engineering department to deliver software with excellent quality and speed.
• Mentoring and developing junior team members.
• Participating in DevOps on-call duties.
• Execute projects within timeframes and communicate well with all stakeholders.

The successful applicant will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Proven experience in a DevOps environment
• Hands-on experience with cloud solutions at massive scale and resiliency
• Advanced AWS expertise (Especially EC2, ECS, IAM, Networking, Lambda, VPC, Kinesis)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automations.
• Experience with managing and querying relational and NoSQL databases (RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB)
• Extensive hands-on experience and understanding of CI/CD practices and pipelines.
• Experience with managing and querying relational and NoSQL databases (RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB)
• Experience operating software in production: building monitoring into your code, tweaking dashboards, and defining alerts (Datadog, PagerDuty, and AWS CloudWatch)
• Understanding of microservices & distributed application architecture, cloud patterns and supporting technology.
• Strong communication, project, and stakeholder management both internal and external.
• Bachelor's Degree in either Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Mathematics, Computer Systems, or equivalent experience

We are committed to building an engaged and talented workforce that represents an environment that is inclusive, supports flexibility and welcomes diversity.

Our values of Dream Big, Win together, Keep it simple and Make it happen are the foundation for fostering an environment where diversity of thinking, skills and experiences are embraced, delivering innovation and better business results.

We value our team by offering;

• Flexible hybrid working arrangement
• Generous parental leave program: 26 weeks salary for primary care giver and 4 weeks salary for secondary care giver
• Access to Reward+ program
• A day off for your birthday
• Wellness programs
• Coaching and career development support, including access to a range of online professional development courses
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program
• Global mobility policy
• Monthly fitness reimbursement
• Volunteer leave
• Work from home set up reimbursement

If you are looking for the next opportunity in your career and want to work for a people focused, growing tech company, then Apply Now.