Senior DevOps Engineer (Windows / AWS) – 5-Month Contract with opportunities for extension and also permanent positions if desired. 

Hybrid – 2+ days in office

We’re looking for an experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Support Engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and can bring leadership, sound decision-making, and a calm presence to a small but high-impact hosting team supporting a complex SaaS product stack.

You’ll be joining a team responsible for managing over 2,500 customer ERP environments—each with its own database and hosting context—so things get complex, and fast. There’s solid automation in place, but plenty of opportunity to refine, stabilise, and extend it. You’ll be instrumental in helping the team scale effectively and sustainably.

What you’ll be doing:

• Handling platform escalations and support tickets, with the ability to work autonomously and know when to pull others in.
• Leading and mentoring less experienced engineers, helping lift the technical bar across the team.
• Supporting and improving automated processes for upgrades, deployments, monitoring and recovery.
• Working closely with product and support teams to ensure customers get a seamless experience.
• Participating in after-hours upgrade windows and early morning verification checks (typically 3–4 times per month).
• Helping upskill an intermediate engineer currently based in Auckland.

About you:

• You’ve worked in Windows-based environments, ideally with distributed systems in the cloud.
• Strong AWS knowledge (ECS, EC2, RDS, networking, IAM etc.)
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging and incident response in production systems.
• Confident with scripting and automation, and understanding of the edge cases where things break down.
• You’ve operated in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles and are comfortable being the most senior on shift.
• Strong communicator who enjoys mentoring and improving team maturity.

Tech Stack:

• Windows Server, AWS, Redis, MySQL (Aurora), .NET-based ERP platform
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Monitoring tools and observability practices

If this sounds like you click apply or reach out to dominic@justdigitalpeople.com.au