Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Build the systems behind the software. Some engineers love building features. Others love understanding how everything works underneath. If you enjoy automation, infrastructure, CI/CD, debugging weird problems, and making systems run better this role might be for you.

At Whip Around, our platform powers products used by fleet businesses across the world. We run on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and modern engineering workflows that our product teams rely on every day.

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer (DevOps) to help us improve the systems that support our engineering teams and products.

You might already be in DevOps. Or you might be a software engineer who’s always gravitated toward infrastructure, deployment pipelines, automation, or developer tooling. Maybe you’re in cloud support and want to move closer to engineering. Maybe you’re a full stack engineer who secretly enjoys fixing CI/CD more than shipping UI.

If any of that sounds familiar, keep reading.

What you’ll actually do

You’ll work closely with experienced engineers to help keep our environments healthy, deployments smooth, and platform tooling continuously improving.

That means things like:

• Supporting AWS environments across QA, staging and production
• Improving CI/CD pipelines and build processes
• Monitoring systems, troubleshooting issues, and improving reliability
• Helping engineers when environments or deployments aren’t behaving
• Contributing to platform improvements across security, performance and cost
• Building confidence working across modern cloud infrastructure and developer tooling

You’ll probably enjoy this role if you:

Like understanding how systems work.

Enjoy automation.

Have a habit of fixing annoying problems.

And have some experience or exposure to things like:

• AWS or cloud computing fundamentals
• CI/CD pipelines or GitHub Actions
• Linux, scripting, terminals or networking fundamentals
• Infrastructure, observability, automation or developer tooling
• Side projects, GitHub repos, Raspberry Pi setups, homelabs, or generally tinkering with technical things

A note on cloud foundations.

This role sits close to the infrastructure that powers our product, so we’re looking for people with a solid foundation in cloud computing concepts.

That could come from:

• AWS certifications or coursework
• University papers focused on cloud, distributed systems or infrastructure
• Personal projects using AWS or cloud tooling
• Demonstrable understanding of how modern cloud systems work

You do not need years of industry experience.

In fact, we’d often prefer someone with strong fundamentals and curiosity over someone who’s picked up habits without understanding the theory underneath.

We use AI heavily in our engineering workflows. Not as a gimmick. As part of how we work every day.

You’ll learn how we use AI to investigate issues, improve systems, move faster, and become a better engineer — while still understanding what’s happening under the hood.

If you’re excited by the idea of AI helping engineers do better work, you’ll probably enjoy it here.

Our stack

AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, SQS), Docker, CloudFormation, GitLab CI, Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, Laravel and React.

No, we don’t expect you to know all of that on day one.

Why Whip Around?

Whip Around is a Kiwi-founded SaaS company solving real-world problems at global scale. Recently backed by major investment, we’re accelerating the next phase of engineering growth and innovation right here in Auckland.

You’ll join a team that values ownership, curiosity, continuous improvement, and helping each other succeed.

You’ll get:

• Hybrid working with flexibility
• Southern Cross health insurance
• Birthday leave
• Extra paid parental leave
• Monthly team lunches & regular events
• Free parking
• A team that values growth, ownership and manaakitanga

If you’re looking for a role where you can grow your impact, help shape what’s next, and work on meaningful software with good humans — we’d love to chat