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.

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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

• Employment typeFull-time

• Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
• IndustriesInsurance

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