Chapter Lead (Cloud Platform Engineering)

Air New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted flights

Flexi Leave

Learning culture

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Chapter Lead (Cloud Platform) to provide strategic leadership within our DevOps team. You will lead a chapter of Cloud Platform Engineers, shaping cloud strategy across AWS, Azure and GCP to enable secure, scalable self-service for engineering teams.

The role emphasizes mentoring, platform as product, governance, security, cost optimisation, and strong stakeholder management as we pursue our multi-cloud journey to improve reliability and developer experience across

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience within a Cloud Platform, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Software Engineering environment.
• Strong technical expertise across cloud platforms, ideally AWS, with some exposure to GCP and Azure, with experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, and observability tooling.
• Experience designing and operating secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver efficiently.
• A track record of developing engineering capability through mentoring, coaching, and technical leadership.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, platform as product, cloud governance, security, resilience, and developer experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes.
• A growth mindset that fosters collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Job description

At Air New Zealand, we're reimagining how technology powers our journey through secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable innovation, speed, and resilience. Our multi-cloud strategy across AWS and Azure is central to our digital transformation, helping modernise our technology landscape and deliver exceptional experiences for our customers and teams.

We're looking for a Chapter Lead (Cloud Platform) to provide strategic leadership and technical excellence within our DevOps team. You'll lead a chapter of talented Cloud Platform Engineers, shaping our cloud strategy while building the capability, culture, and engineering practices that enable teams across the airline to deliver with confidence.

About the role

As a Chapter Lead (Cloud Platform), you will:

• Provide strategic people leadership across the Cloud Platform Chapter, develop technical capability and support career growth of the team.
• Define and champion best practices for cloud platform engineering, automation, security, and operational excellence.
• Drive the evolution of our AWS, GCP and Azure platforms, enabling secure, scalable self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Partner with Product, Security, Architecture, and Engineering leaders to align cloud platform capabilities with business priorities.
• Lead initiatives that improve platform reliability, performance, governance, developer experience, and cost optimisation.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through automation, infrastructure as code, continuous integration, continuous delivery, observability, platform as product, and platform engineering practices.
• Balance hands-on technical leadership with coaching and mentoring to build empowered, high-performing teams.

What we're looking for

• Proven leadership experience within a Cloud Platform, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Software Engineering environment.
• Strong technical expertise across cloud platforms, ideally AWS, with some exposure to GCP and Azure, with experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, and observability tooling.
• Experience designing and operating secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver efficiently.
• A track record of developing engineering capability through mentoring, coaching, and technical leadership.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, platform as product, cloud governance, security, resilience, and developer experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes.
• A growth mindset that fosters collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What's in it for you

We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work, including:

• Discounted flights for you and your whānau.
• Flexi Leave, giving you the option to purchase up to four extra weeks of leave each year.
• A learning culture that supports your next step, not just your current role.

Ready for take-off?

Applications close on Sunday 26 August 2026.

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

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