Cloud Engineer

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people's lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, you'll manage and support customer Azure environments, helping drive cloud transformation and optimisation. In this flexible, customer-facing role, you'll act as a trusted advisor, promote automation and DevOps/DevSecOps practices, ensure secure and efficient environments, bridge application and support teams, and enable customers through modern ways of working.

This is an operational role and involves onsite support and an on-call roster for afterhours support. This role will be located in Wellington.

What you'll do

At the moment, as Azure Cloud Engineer you will be focused on:

• Be a trusted advisor for all things Cloud
• Lead and inspire our customers on the benefits of cloud technology, automation, and enabling a DevOps/DevSecOps culture
• Ensure our customers cloud environments remain secure and optimised
• Act as the bridge between application technologies and customer support teams
• Provide enablement and guidance

We are a pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders' changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.

What you'll bring

• Passionate about cloud transformation, automation and solving customer challenges.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and understand the business benefits and of cloud technologies.
• Ability to take ownership of issues and work with the team to find resolutions.
• Ideally you would hold certifications in Azure (AZ400, AZ104, AZ204, AZ500).
• Experience in designing, building, deploying, and supporting Azure solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), including but not limited to:
• CI/CD pipeline builds and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep, Powershell etc.
• Familiarity with hybrid and multi cloud design e.g. multi-region/zone, scalable, resilient, secure
• Tenancy, Account Structure, Landing Zone, Policy, Tagging and Cost Controls
• VMs, Azure Functions/Serverless, Storage, Backup, OS and database configuration and hardening etc.
• Network and security incl. IAM, SecGroup, VPC/VNet, NLB, WAF, DNS etc.
• Monitoring, logging and alerting tools and configuration
• Cloud native and digital solutioning leveraging emerging technologies incl. containers, serverless, data, ML and AI, IoT, API, Micro-services etc
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, including Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Azure Active Directory, Azure Networking, Azure App Services and Azure Security

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You'll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand's largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.