Cloud Engineer

**General information**:

- Location
- Auckland, Christchurch
- Expertise
- Infrastructure, Technology
- Job Level
- Experienced
- Employment Type
- Permanent full-time
- Close Date
- 31-Mar-2025
- Ref #
- 59355

**Description & Requirements**:
**Spark NZ**
- As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark’s purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.
- We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.

**About the Role**:

- We are looking for a skilled **Cloud IT Engineer** to join our **Public Cloud Operations** team, with a primary focus on **Azure**. In this role, you will be responsible for managing, automating, and optimizing cloud infrastructure to support our customers and internal stakeholders. You will work with **Terraform, Azure DevOps, automation tools, and monitoring solutions** to ensure secure, scalable, and well-governed cloud environments. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about cloud technologies and eager to drive best practices in Azure operations.

**Day to day you will be involved in**:

- Supporting customers and internal stakeholders in managing and optimizing their Azure environments.
- Provide technical advice and operational excellence to our business units.
- Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules using **Terraform**.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and automate all aspects of cloud infrastructure, testing and code deployment.
- Automating cloud operations and resource provisioning with **PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Python**.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting Azure infrastructure using **Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and other observability tools**.
- Implementing security best practices, **RBAC policies, and governance frameworks** to ensure compliance.
- Managing and optimizing **Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)** clusters, including networking, security, and scaling.
- Enhancing DevOps workflows by integrating cloud infrastructure with **Azure DevOps pipelines**.
- Contributing to **cloud governance initiatives** to ensure consistency and best practices across environments.
- You will be included on a 24/7 on-call roster that is rotated amongst team members.

**What experience you'll bring?**

You will bring hands-on experience in **Azure cloud infrastructure**, including networking, security, compute, and storage. Your expertise in **Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automation, and scripting** will be critical in streamlining cloud operations. Experience with **monitoring, incident management, and Kubernetes (AKS)** is highly valued. Additionally, a strong understanding of **Azure security, compliance, and DevOps practices** will enable you to support and optimize our cloud environments effectively. If you have a passion for automation, problem-solving, and working in a dynamic cloud-first environment, we’d love to hear from you

**WHY CHOOSE US**:
**Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai**
- At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be “how things are done at Spark”, embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.

**Sustainability: Toitū**
- Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand’s recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

**Benefits: Awhina**
- Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we’ve got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

- **Wellbeing** - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.
- **Hybrid ways of working** - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.
- **Leave** - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.
- **Spark Credit** - we provide perma