Technical Lead (Cloud/DevOps)

Location: Wellington or Christchurch, New Zealand. Work-from-home and flexible work options are available where possible.

Company

hirify.global is New Zealand's largest renewable electricity producer, generating all of its electricity from renewable sources and supplying energy to homes, businesses, and farms through Meridian and Powershop.

What you will do

• Provide hands-on technical leadership within cross-functional squads.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable solutions and integrations.
• Apply modern engineering practices, standards, automation, and secure design principles.
• Support solution architecture, vendor reviews, operational handover, and platform maintenance.
• Respond to priority incidents and maintain existing enterprise platforms.
• Build stakeholder relationships and contribute to continuous improvement and communities of practice.

Requirements

• Experience with modern engineering practices, including cloud, DevOps, automation, and secure design.
• Experience in enterprise and corporate solution architecture.
• Experience building and supporting business logic automations.
• Ability to assess solutions for scalability, testability, and maintainability.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, documentation, and knowledge-sharing skills.
• Experience supporting enterprise systems and integrations; Oracle, Maximo, Azure, MS365, DataBricks, and SQL Server experience is advantageous.

Culture & Benefits

• Work/life balance with work-from-home and flexible work options where possible.
• Competitive salary package, annual reviews, performance incentives, and partnership discounts.
• Funded Southern Cross Healthcare insurance for eligible employees, plus life, trauma, and income protection insurance.
• Enhanced leave provisions, parental leave, and the option to purchase up to 12 additional leave days.
• KiwiSaver contributions, employee share scheme, learning and development opportunities, and wellbeing support.
• Employee power discounts and a one-off $400 payment for work-from-home equipment where needed.

Hiring process

• Applications close on 20 October 2026, subject to change.
• Accessibility support is available during the application process.