Azure Cloud Architect — Senior Engineer (Hybrid)

Recruit I.T.; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Recruit I.T. is assisting a well-established public sector organisation in Wellington to recruit a senior Azure/Cloud engineer. You will lead as the senior technical authority for Azure and 365, build cloud environments as code, and mentor the team.

The role focuses on migrating remaining on-premises services to the cloud within 12 months, embedding AI, and aligning with governance and security controls. Hybrid work arrangement applies in this Wellington-based role.

Qualifications

• Proven senior-level experience in cloud platforms.
• Hands-on IaC experience with Terraform/ARM/Bicep; pipelines in Git or Azure DevOps.
• Deep Azure experience; AWS experience also welcome.
• Experience with Entra ID, Microsoft 365 and security controls (advantageous).
• Track record mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
• Experience in the public sector or NZISM/government security knowledge (advantageous).
• Ability to obtain NZ Government security clearance (Confidential up to Secret); citizenship or PR required.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical authority for Azure and Microsoft 365 platform.
• Build and evolve cloud environments as code using Terraform and ARM/Bicep via Git/Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Design controls and frameworks (landing zones, Azure Policy, RBAC, privileged access).
• Lead migration of remaining on-premises services to the cloud over 12 months.
• Embed AI across the organisation in practical ways.
• Mentor engineers, review peers, raise team capability.
• Escalation point for complex incidents and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with Architecture team and vendors to align with best practice.
• Report to Platform & Services Lead as part of Cloud team.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

ARM/Bicep

Entra ID

Identity access management

Mentoring

Public sector experience

Git pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

ARM/Bicep

Entra ID

Microsoft 365

Job description

Recruit I.T. is assisting a well-established public sector organisation in Wellington to recruit a senior Azure/Cloud engineer. You will lead as the senior technical authority for Azure and 365, build cloud environments as code, and mentor the team.

The role focuses on migrating remaining on-premises services to the cloud within 12 months, embedding AI, and aligning with governance and security controls. Hybrid work arrangement applies in this Wellington-based role.