Cloud & On-Prem Ops Engineer – Secure, Automated Delivery

CGR Services; Auckland; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is seeking an Engineer for the Cloud Operations team to help deliver, support, and improve cloud-based platforms and on‑premise services underpinning NZDF digital infrastructure. You’ll work in an Agile product team to implement and enhance cloud technologies, automation, and secure, reliable operations across NZDF environments.

Responsibilities include maintaining cloud and on-prem platform services, resolving incidents, contributing to automation, and

Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft technologies including Windows Server and Active Directory.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-based infrastructure services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies and scripting.
• DevOps practices, including Azure DevOps and Git-based source control.

Responsibilities

• Supporting and maintaining cloud platform services and on premises physical platform services.
• Investigating and resolving incidents, problems and service requests.
• Implementing new solutions and product enhancements.
• Contributing to automation, infrastructure-as-code and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Working with stakeholders to improve service performance, resilience and customer experience.
• Maintaining system documentation and operational procedures.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Azure

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

PowerShell

Bicep

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Git

Hyper-V

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring platforms

Networking concepts

Linux administration

IAM

IT security frameworks

Agile / DevOps

Education

Azure Fundamentals

Azure Administrator

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Ansible

Bicep

Hyper-V

Job description

New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is seeking an Engineer for the Cloud Operations team to help deliver, support, and improve cloud-based platforms and on‑premise services underpinning NZDF digital infrastructure. You’ll work in an Agile product team to implement and enhance cloud technologies, automation, and secure, reliable operations across NZDF environments.

Responsibilities include maintaining cloud and on-prem platform services, resolving incidents, contributing to automation, and