"Platform Engineer"

Job Description:

Ratonga Matihiko | Digital Services

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
• Permanent position
• Generous annual leave provisions and professional development opportunities

Are you an experienced IT professional with a passion for building reliable, secure, and innovative infrastructure solutions? Join us as a Platform Engineer and play a key role in shaping the University of Canterbury's digital landscape.

Āu Mahi | What You Will Do

As a Platform Engineer, you'll be responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining our server and storage services—both virtual and physical as well as being part of our cloud journey. You'll ensure our systems are available, secure, and high-performing while providing expert advice and third-level technical support to our community.

From managing Windows Server Networks, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware, and storage environments, migrating these to cloud services and supporting disaster recovery planning and knowledge-sharing across teams, this role is integral to delivering seamless digital services that enable teaching, research, and student success.

Mōu | Who You Are

You will have at least 3 years' experience supporting IT systems in medium to large organisations as well as being able to demonstrate:

• Substantial hands-on experience with managing and modernising enterprise grade physical infrastructure, such as servers, storage systems, virtualisation platforms, or data centre hardware.
• Proven capability in hybrid infrastructure environments and be able to provide evidence of working within a hybrid infrastructure environment that includes both on-premise and cloud platforms.
• Expert knowledge of server networks (Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux an advantage).
• A strong approach to reliability, maintenance, and availability and be able to articulate a clear and proactive approach to ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and system reliability in all infrastructure.
• Evidence of enabling other teams - such as developers, researchers, teaching staff, or IT support - through infrastructure solutions. This may include automating provisioning, improving platform reliability, enhancing user access to compute or storage resources, or streamlining workflows through tooling or documentation.
• A sound knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools, in particular Git, Terraform and Ansible.
• Knowledge and skills in cloud migrations and technologies a real advantage to enable meaningful involvement in the cloud transformation program.
• A customer-focused approach with a commitment to best practice (ITIL, Agile).
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
• A genuine interest in collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Respect for te ao Māori, with competency in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga an advantage.
• An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With

Building world-class digital capability is crucial to the University of Canterbury's ongoing success. Digital Services is a large team, striving to provide a modern dynamic foundation from which the University (UC) can explore new business models and ways of working. Digital will transform how we work, behave, and the expectations of the communities we service.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC

Ngā Uara | Our Values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga guide our decisions and behaviour and provide a roadmap for how we do things at UC, affirming our commitment to pastoral care and support for our ākonga and staff. They challenge and inspire us to be the best we can and make UC a great place to work and study. For more info on Ngā Uara | Our Values visit us here.

We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.

We offer a range of fantastic benefits including flexible work practices, study opportunities and generous superannuation and leave provisions. For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/work-at-uc/benefits-working-uc. For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/.

The closing date for this position is: 21 September 2025 (midnight, NZ time)

Please note, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place before the close date.

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply

Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

Please note, we do not accept applications by email, however we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to WorkatUC@canterbury.ac.nz

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.