Senior Cloud Engineer

About the Company
The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation manage the New Zealand Super Fund, a global investment fund that invests government contributions to help meet the future cost of universal superannuation.

The Guardians also oversee the Elevate Fund, backing small, fast-growing New Zealand companies.

This is complex, innovative and intellectually stimulating work, carried out by a team with a deep sense of purpose: sustainable investment delivering strong returns for all New Zealanders.

The New Zealand Super Fund has been named the world's best-performing sovereign wealth fund over the past 20 years by Global SWF, a reflection of the calibre of its people and its long-term performance.

Why this role matters
The Guardians run their technology predominantly in the Microsoft cloud. This role sits at the centre of it.

You'll join the Cloud Operations function within Technology Operations, reporting to the Platform Lead, Cloud and Infrastructure. You'll be the key point of contact for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services in Azure, and you'll shape how the cloud environment is designed, secured, governed and optimised as the organisation grows.

This isn't a pure build-and-run role, and it isn't purely strategic either. It's for a senior engineer who is still hands-on in Azure and who also wants a say in strategy, governance and how the team develops.

Why you'll love working here
You'll have real influence over the cloud strategy and roadmap of a world-leading investment organisation, and you'll be a technical leader and mentor to other cloud engineers.

You'll get a mix of hands-on engineering, architecture, security and vendor management, and your work will directly support a fund that matters to every New Zealander.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and implementation of Azure solutions with scalability, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness in mind
• Provision, manage, monitor and decommission servers and services across Azure
• Ensure best practice across cloud security and identity management, and contribute to the Guardians' cloud and security strategies
• Establish and enforce cloud governance, including access controls, resource tagging, budget management and regulatory compliance
• Find ways to optimise infrastructure and costs through automation, performance tuning and solution improvements
• Lead incident response during critical outages or security events, coordinating across teams to resolve issues fast
• Manage cloud service providers and technology partners to keep them aligned with business goals and SLAs
• Mentor and guide junior cloud engineers, building a culture of continuous learning and improvement

What you bring

• 5–10+ years in IT, with a significant focus on cloud technologies
• Extensive hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills and advanced cloud security capability
• Experience designing self-healing, fault-tolerant services, and an understanding of stateless, loosely coupled distributed applications
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases and with messaging and queuing services
• The ability to explain technical ideas in clear, business-friendly language, with a customer-service mindset and a track record of delivering against SLAs
• A collaborative, constructive approach and the ability to build strong relationships inside and outside the organisation

What next?
All applications are confidential.
Apply directly, or contact Tram [email protected] or Louise at [email protected].