Technical Lead SRE
Recruit IT ·www.recruitit.co.nz
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Salary: $160K - $190K
Working Arrangement for candidates based in Auckland: Hybrid/2-3 days onsite per week
Working Arrangement for outside Auckland: Remote (onsite 4 times per year)
Key Selling Points
Must Have
If you are an experienced SRE looking to step into a lead or principal level role with broad technical influence, apply now. We will be in touch with shortlisted candidates.
Working Arrangement for candidates based in Auckland: Hybrid/2-3 days onsite per week
Working Arrangement for outside Auckland: Remote (onsite 4 times per year)
Key Selling Points
- Build and scale critical platform infrastructure supporting modern, cloud native systems
- Drive reliability, performance, and security across large scale engineering environments
- Influence platform strategy and operational best practices at an enterprise level
- We are looking for a Lead or Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join a high performing platform and infrastructure team.
- This role focuses on designing, building, and scaling the core infrastructure that underpins modern engineering environments. You will play a key role in ensuring systems are secure, reliable, and highly available, while influencing platform strategy and driving operational excellence across the organisation.
- This is a lead position suited to someone who enjoys working across infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering, with the ability to influence both technical direction and engineering standards.
- Design, provision, and manage platform infrastructure, including networking and access controls
- Implement and maintain RBAC models to support secure and scalable access management
- Support internal platforms and external managed services such as Kafka and Confluent Cloud
- Establish and improve operational processes including monitoring, patching, and BAU support
- Manage platform security, ensuring compliance with best practice standards
- Drive reliability, scalability, and performance across platform environments
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform usage and operational maturity
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to platform and infrastructure strategy
Must Have
- Strong experience with Azure across infrastructure, networking, and security
- Solid understanding of RBAC and identity and access management principles
- Proven experience working with modern CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure as code tools
- Experience supporting platforms such as Kafka or Confluent Cloud
- Background in improving operational processes and platform maturity
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability engineering principles
- Experience operating at a lead level within SRE or platform engineering roles
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non technical stakeholders
- Exposure to Kubernetes and containerised environments
- Work on critical platform infrastructure that enables large scale engineering delivery
- Opportunity to influence reliability, security, and platform standards across the organisation
- Collaborate with strong technical leadership in a high performing environment
- Work with modern cloud native technologies and practices
- Long term career growth within a high impact engineering function
If you are an experienced SRE looking to step into a lead or principal level role with broad technical influence, apply now. We will be in touch with shortlisted candidates.
Frequently asked questions
Who is hiring for the Technical Lead SRE role?
Recruit IT is hiring for the Technical Lead SRE position, a Shazamme client. Apply directly on the employer's career site.
Where is the Technical Lead SRE job located?
The Technical Lead SRE role with Recruit IT is based in Auckland, NZ. The role is remote-friendly.
Is the Technical Lead SRE role remote?
Yes — the Technical Lead SRE position at Recruit IT is remote. Candidates based in NZ are preferred.
What does the Technical Lead SRE role pay?
Recruit IT lists the Technical Lead SRE role at NZD 160,000–190,000 per year.
Is the Technical Lead SRE role full-time or contract?
This is a full time position at Recruit IT.
What experience level is the Technical Lead SRE role?
The Technical Lead SRE position is aimed at lead-level candidates.
How do I apply for the Technical Lead SRE role at Recruit IT?
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