Engineer Cloud

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About Us

We're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives.


With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer.

We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart.

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced Engineer (Cloud) whose role is key to maintaining a resilient, cost-effective and continuously improving cloud infrastructure. It will drive our insourcing strategy, strengthen internal capabilities and support future cloud initiatives.

Responsibilities Include

Azure - Designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions on the Azure platform. Managing and monitoring Azure cloud infrastructures to ensure optimal performance and cost-efficiency
Platform Development: Collaborate with other members of the Platform Engineering team to design and implement new platform features and infrastructure improvements. Participate in the architecture and design discussions to enhance the platform's capabilities aiming at providing improved self-service, automation and engineering standardisation
Issue Resolution: As an engineer, you will be responsible for identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving a broad range of platform-related issues, including those affecting infrastructure, services, and deployed applications. Apply strong analytical and diagnostic skills to perform root cause analysis and implement sustainable solutions that prevent issue recurrence. Participate in the end-to-end incident management process, including timely escalation, resolution, documentation, and communication with relevant stakeholders
Documentation: Develop and maintain documentation related to the platform, its components, and operational procedures. Ensure documentation is up-to-date and easily accessible to team members
Performance Optimisation: Continuously monitor and optimise the performance and scalability of the platform and its underlying infrastructure. Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to enhance overall system performance.

About You

Familiar with Platform Engineering concepts and practices
Advanced experience with Azure networking, Security and disaster, Web Services and APIs, Virtualization and Storage
Expertise in IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools for automating software delivery processes
Exposure or experience with SRE practices such as monitoring, incident response, and post-incident analysis
Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Shell, PowerShell) to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention
Understanding of Agile principles and practices, such as SAFe, Scrum or Kanban, to contribute effectively to Agile development teams
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Willingness to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and share knowledge with team members.

Ngākau nui. Āhurutanga. Tikanga.

Join a proud diverse team, that's always there, always real, always true .If you thrive in a caring, honest and open culture, we think you'll love working with us.

We know that it is our team's culture and wellbeing that will drive us forward. That's why we prioritise not only professional development opportunities but opportunities to thrive personally, too. We offer exceptional work/life balance and our employees are encouraged to - and rewarded for - living well.

Southern Cross employee benefits include:

five days ofwellbeing leaveper year
health insurancefor you and your immediatewhānau
life insurancecover and discounts onpet and travel insurance
extraparental leave benefitsandfinancial wellbeingsupport
Participate in ourworkplace wellbeing programme.

That's not all. Need more time to study, volunteer or support your whānau? You'll have the opportunity to purchase flexi leave. Each year, you will also get to take part in a volunteer day, to contribute to a cause or community with your team.

Our commitment to LGBTQIA+ and minority communities is reflected in our culture, and we run a regular Diversity and Inclusion Forum to help ensure this continues to flourish.

If you share our commitment and passion, then apply now!
Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Insurance
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