AWS Cloud Engineer (9 Month Fixed Term)
About the role
As a Cloud Engineer within the Co-operative Bank’s Cloud Platform Team, you’ll be a key player in shaping the future of our core banking platform. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to utilise your cloud expertise, particularly your knowledge of AWS, to build and operationalise secure and scalable infrastructure that supports our banking operations. You’ll be directly involved in the entire lifecycle of our cloud environment - from initial designs and implementation to enhancement and optimisation of existing solutions.
We’re looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative team setting and is passionate about delivering robust solutions. Your work will be vital in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of our cloud platform, allowing us to continue to innovate and provide exceptional services to our customers.
You’ll bring the following experience to the table:
Extensive experience (5+ years) designing, developing, and supporting complex enterprise AWS environments, with a particular focus on:
- DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
- Observability, monitoring & logging
- Rapid and methodical issue diagnosis and resolution CI/CD pipelines and containerised deployments
- Proactive prevention of operational issues and risk mitigation through the building of resilient systems
Hands on experience with:
- AWS Cloud computing and infrastructure technologies
- Scripting/Coding languages - PowerShell, Bash, C#, Python
- Infrastructure as code - Terraform is a must, CloudFormation also desirable
- Experience with source control, ideally git
- Cloud automation toolsets including Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, TeamCity
On the job experience delivering results within an Agile development framework
Experience working in a multi-talented and cross-functional teams
Proven experience in delivering large projects with tight deadlines
Excellent verbal and written communication
Experience Better with Us
We’re a small and mighty Bank driven by the shared goal of helping New Zealanders bank better. As a proudly customer-owned Bank and Certified B Corporation, not only will you be helping Kiwis achieve their goals, but you’ll also experience better simply by working here:
- Purpose: As a smaller bank, your impact is bigger, you’ll see how your work makes a real difference in delivering exceptional customer experiences and financial outcomes, every single day.
- Career Growth: Expand your skills, take on new challenges and tap into a range of areas across the Bank.
- Support: We support you to balance life and work through generous benefits including Wellbeing Leave, Parental Leave Benefits, Life and Critical Illness insurance, Employee Assistance Programme, Banking Benefits, Profit Share and Workride.
- Belonging: You will feel like part of the team from day one. From the way we work together, our commitment to Pride Pledge, and focus on diversity and inclusion, you’ll be part of a team that’s making banking better for New Zealanders, together.
We’ve been operating for nearly 100 years and support over 180,000 customers across New Zealand. If you’re looking for a role where we work together to make an impact, and you can build a career you’re proud of, you’ve found the right place.
We understand that no candidate is a perfect match for every qualification listed. So, if you are passionate about helping people to bank better and possess some of the key skills, we encourage you to submit your application. For any questions, please contact recruitmenthelp@co-operativebank.co.nz.
Applications Close: 7 April 2026
