Technical Lead – Payments & DevOps

About the role

Worldline NZ is building the next generation of New Zealand's national payment switch – a high‑performance platform that will enable digital wallets, new payment flows and real‑time transactions. As a hands‑on Technical Lead you will drive the design, delivery and operation of this critical infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Configure, test and commission the new payment switch.
• Lead day‑to‑day technical delivery with DevOps squads, the switch vendor and architecture teams.
• Implement core infrastructure components such as networks, firewalls, HSM connectivity, hybrid cloud and environments in collaboration with Core and Infra teams.
• Design, own and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and release gating in a PCI‑DSS regulated environment.
• Define end‑to‑end test strategy including integration, performance, certification, automated testing and bank/scheme UAT.
• Implement PCI‑DSS technical controls, observability tooling, monitoring, incident response and production readiness.
• Grow and mentor a small high‑performing engineering team over time.

Required profile

• Strong hands‑on background in infrastructure engineering, DevOps or platform engineering.
• Deep technical execution ability – command line, code, IaC, troubleshooting and system configuration.
• Experience with agile delivery, CI/CD, test automation and cross‑functional engineering collaboration.
• Comfort working with external vendors and making technical decisions under delivery pressure.
• Knowledge of networking, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), security controls and regulated environments.
• Leadership ability to coach engineers, raise technical quality and set engineering standards.

Required skills

• Infrastructure engineering
• DevOps
• Platform engineering
• Command line proficiency
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• CI/CD pipeline design
• Test automation
• Agile delivery
• Networking
• AWS
• Azure
• Security controls
• PCI‑DSS compliance
• Hybrid cloud
• HSM connectivity
• Observability tooling
• Monitoring
• Incident response