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Mid-level DevOps Engineer (SRE)
Xe.com · Christchurch
Job description
About the role
Xe is looking for a mid‑level DevOps Engineer who will own real problems end‑to‑end, from infrastructure design and pipeline architecture to incident response and on‑call duties. The role combines cloud engineering, CI/CD reliability, and AI‑accelerated tooling to keep our money‑moving services fast and resilient.
Key responsibilities
- Own CI/CD pipeline reliability and developer experience across squads, including release gating, delivery automation, and rollback safety.
- Build and operate multi‑region AWS infrastructure, covering identity (Cognito), networking, and disaster‑recovery.
- Partner with engineering and architecture to adopt AI‑accelerated SDLC tooling across the organization.
- Manage production observability, define SLOs, set up alerting, and lead incident response with on‑call rotation.
- Use agentic coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) daily throughout the software development lifecycle.
Required profile
- 3–6 years of experience building and operating production infrastructure end‑to‑end.
- Strong hands‑on experience with AWS in production, including multi‑region setups, IAM, networking, and managed services.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling.
- Experience owning CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent) with release gating and automation.
- Container orchestration experience in production environments.
- Background in operating observability/monitoring stacks, defining SLOs, and managing alerts.
- Proven incident‑response experience, including on‑call rotation.
- Daily use of AI‑assisted coding tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Required skills
- AWS (IAM, Cognito, networking, multi‑region architecture)
- Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, etc.)
- Observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- SLO definition and alerting systems
- Incident response and on‑call rotation
- AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code)
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Xe.com
Christchurch