Socialite Recruitment Limited
2 months ago
Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Lead
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Company information
- Company
- Socialite Recruitment Limited
- Location
- New Zealand, North Island, Greater Wellington, Wellington New Zealand
- Posted
- 2 months ago
Job description
This is an innovative, rapidly growing financial technology provider based in central Wellington. They are passionate about engineering high-quality, sophisticated platform solutions for the New Zealand financial services sector. Offering a collaborative, modern culture that values smart thinking over corporate bureaucracy.
The Opportunity:
Reporting directly to the CTO, you will take ownership of the core technical infrastructure. You will lead a talented, cross-functional engineering team. This pivotal role balances long-term strategic cloud architecture with hands-on operational leadership. If you love solving complex platform problems while mentoring engineers, you will thrive here.
Key Responsibilities:
The Opportunity:
Reporting directly to the CTO, you will take ownership of the core technical infrastructure. You will lead a talented, cross-functional engineering team. This pivotal role balances long-term strategic cloud architecture with hands-on operational leadership. If you love solving complex platform problems while mentoring engineers, you will thrive here.
Key Responsibilities:
- People Leadership: Guide, mentor, and foster a high-performance culture for the engineers.
- Cloud Roadmap: Take full accountability for the production AWS environment.
- Optimise Operations: Drive strategy around platform resilience, security, and cloud cost optimization.
- Release Engineering: Own and continuously optimize the automated software deployment pipeline.
- Security & Audit: Lead technical audit processes and manage vulnerability assessments.
- Operational Excellence: Oversee corporate IT systems, hardware fleets, and helpdesk triage.
- Proven Leadership: 2+ years of experience managing infrastructure, cloud, or platform teams.
- Technical Depth: 6+ years in software or technology operations roles.
- AWS Mastery: Deep, hands-on production experience architecting within the AWS ecosystem.
- Automation Mastery: Strong background with CI/CD tooling and infrastructure-as-code.
- Compliance Knowledge: Solid understanding of information security frameworks and IT audits.
- Financial Background: Previous exposure to the fintech domain is highly advantageous.
- Hybrid Flexibility: Genuine flexible working arrangements with a balance of home and office.
- Prime Location: A vibrant, modern workspace right in the Wellington CBD.
- True Autonomy: Freedom to shape a growing cloud platform ecosystem.
Required skills
- mentoring
- ci/cd
- operational excellence
- security
- resilience
- it systems
- team leadership
- aws
- fintech
- lead
- helpdesk
- cost optimization
- vulnerability assessments
- infrastructure-as-code
- platform engineering
- cloud architecture
- audit processes
- operations leadership
- infrastructure engineering
- financial technology
- hybrid flexibility
- cloud roadmap
- release engineering
- wellington cbd
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