Database Platform Engineer

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity Help shape and evolve the enterprise database platforms that support New Zealand's leading university. The Platform Engineering team is seeking a Database Platform Engineer to join the team on a permanent basis. This is an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of our enterprise database platforms.

As a Database Platform Engineer, you'll work across business-critical database environments spanning on-premises and cloud technologies, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Amazon RDS. You'll help ensure our platforms remain secure, reliable, scalable, and high performing while contributing to automation, platform engineering, service improvement, and technology modernisation initiatives. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, application, and project teams to deliver robust database platform services that support the University's teaching, research, and operational activities.

You'll also have the opportunity to work with evolving cloud technologies, implement new platform capabilities, and help shape the future direction of our data services. This is a full-time (37.5 hours per week), permanent position and includes participation in a 24/7 on-call roster. The salary range is $87,000 - $118,000 dependent on skills and experience.

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