Some of the central beaches are sometimes crowded, but many beaches are just empty. Went for a swim today and water was fresh (16 degrees) but refreshing !
NZ is not cheap indeed and Auckland is insanely expensive (managed to buy despite the crazy housing market), but nice beaches and awesome for sailing !
So Auckland dropped 33 places just because of few Covid cases ? It is true that we had a peak of Covid cases this year, but it was never really massive by international standards.
At the same time, Auckland is pretty dead for a while now, especially the CBD. Traffic is not that bad, but we haven't recovered at all from Covid. We will see in the next few months if cruise ships and tourists are back or not.
10 year experience with almost 5 years experience with AWS (SA/DevOps pro certs and specialty ones). Started as Java developer (long time ago!) but quickly moved to DevOps as I love pipelines and workflows in general. Mainly working with Python 3/CDK today but keen to learn other languages/frameworks when using them make sense (Terraform/Ansible/Go/Typescript). Current title is Cloud DevOps architect but I do not mind coding as well.
Based in NZ, I would not mind working for Australia (West Island as we say ;)) and/or the US as the timezones are friendly if the working hours are flexible. Can also work for an EU based company but time difference (+10 at the moment) might be a problem :).
Ideally a working environment with excellent communications patterns and where people are keen to share and learn. Finally, I want to keep working with AWS technologies - ideally the serverless ones.
Where are you based ?