Senior Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer

5 days ago


Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Watercare Services Limited Full time
Senior Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer

When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy

Watercare is the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand, supplying more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. Now is an exciting time to join Watercare; we're planning to spend $18.5 billion over the next 20 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. When you average that out, that's an investment of $2.5 million every day.

It doesn't just stop there; we ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of everything that we do to help protect our water resources for future generations. This means that we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our carbon footprint with initiatives like solar panels, electric cars, revegetation programmes, and much more. We really are a company that wants to make a positive difference.

We're looking for a Senior Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer to take the lead in Watercare's cloud infrastructure, platforms, and automation. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, securing, and optimizing our cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platforms to ensure high operational standards. Your expertise will enable our Digital squads and BAU teams to deliver efficient, reliable, and secure digital services. As part of the senior cloud team, you will act as an enabler, mentor, and escalation point for our DevOps and Cloud BAU teams. You will also work closely with Architecture to drive the successful delivery of Watercare's Digital strategy.

Key Responsibilities
  • Extensive experience in managing a Public Cloud, virtualization & applicable infrastructure
  • Migrating workloads from on-premises HCI infrastructure & other cloud platforms to Microsoft Azure
  • Have worked in a senior technical role in large corporate environments
  • Exceptional communication skills written & verbal including with senior business managers
  • Experience with Infrastructure provisioning and management in Azure, AWS, HCI or GCP
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code ideally using Terraform
  • Experience with scale. Finops or the Finops methodology across cloud platforms would be of advantage.
  • Proficient in automation scripting and developing CI/CD pipelines - one or more of: Jenkins, Cloud Build, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Puppet, Chef, Ansible
  • SysOps/DevOps experience working alongside Software development teams
  • SQL DB administrative experience would be of advantage, both PaaS and 'on prem'
  • Extensive experience working in an Agile methodology
  • Knowledge of at least one high level programming language, preferably Java
Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:

  • Life and income protection insurance plans
  • Generous parental leave
  • Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
  • Discounted parking options
  • Free on-site gym
Me pēhea te tono mai | How to Apply

Come and join our team If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today at www.careers.watercare.co.nz

Reference # 38478

Posted on: 28 Mar 2025

Closes on: 18 Apr 2025 09:00

Location(s): Newmarket

Expertise: Information Systems & Communication Technology

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