Cloud Platform Engineer

IAG; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver 4.5% employer contribution

20 days annual leave

MyLeave 5 days

Work from home flexibility

Health & wellbeing payment

Parental leave 14 weeks

Learning & development

Job summary

IAG is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help scale its engineering platform across AWS, GCP and Azure. You will focus on evolving the GCP estate, building self‑service capabilities, and deploying guardrails, with hands‑on work on networking, identity, security and observability.

You will collaborate with vendors and internal teams to uplift engineering productivity, contribute to platform reliability, and participate in on‑call rotations to ensure stable operations across our

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years building cloud infra with GCP and/or AWS.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, containers, GitOps and CI/CD.
• Exposure to Cloud Run, OpenTelemetry and modern platform engineering practices is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Build self-service platform capabilities (GKE, Cloud Run, EKS) using Terraform, GitOps, and day 2 operational automation.
• Enhance GCP foundations, including networking, identity, security, and observability.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules and platform guardrails.

Skills

Cloud platform thinking

Vendor engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering judgement

Tools

GKE

Cloud Run

EKS

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Wiz

Job description

At IAG, we’re ready for you. We're the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.

Join us as a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer and help build the future of IAG’s engineering platform.

We run IAG's multi-cloud estate across AWS, GCP and Azure, supporting insurance operations in Australia and New Zealand under APRA and RBNZ obligations. We are building this out into a self-service platform with golden paths and guardrails. Foundations are in place; the platform layer is what we are hiring for.

A key focus of this role is evolving our GCP estate as we migrate workloads from an end-of-life on-premises container platform to Cloud Run. You'll help build and enhance the cloud foundations these workloads rely on, including networking, identity, security, observability and reusable platform patterns, while contributing to a unified Enterprise Cloud Platform across GCP and AWS. In this role, you’ll work hands on with our strategic vendors, uplift IAG’s engineering community and shape the experience layer that brings the platform to life. This is a permanent full‑time role based in multiple locations in Auckland, Melbourne or Sydney.

Ngā Mahi Hei Whakatutuki Māu | What You’ll Do

• Build self‑service platform capabilities (GKE, Cloud Run, EKS) using Terraform, GitOps, and day 2 operational automation.
• Contribute to BAU platform operations, including triaging and resolving support requests from engineering teams, incident response, and continuous improvement work alongside greenfield delivery.
• Enhance GCP foundations, including networking, hybrid connectivity, workload identity, secrets management and observability.
• Develop and maintain golden‑path Terraform modules, with standards enforced at deploy time.
• Develop and enhance IAG’s IDP, including service catalogues, templates, and golden paths that lift engineering productivity and experience.
• Create platform guardrails & policy as code that enable fast delivery while maintaining reliability, security, and compliance.
• Design observability and operational tooling, improving platform reliability and enabling strong on‑call support patterns. OpenTelemetry exposure is highly valued.
• Support workload migration to Cloud Run and uplift cloud security through Wiz and CNAPP capabilities.
• Work closely with strategic vendors (Google, Wiz, AWS and others), embedding into delivery teams and sharing knowledge back into IAG via pairing, learning hours, and lightweight communities of practice.
• Influence platform direction, challenging approaches with data driven insights and supporting solution governance as part of IAG’s engineering ways of working.
• Participate in a rotating on‑call roster, responding to platform incidents out of hours and contributing to PIRs to drive reliability improvements

Ōu Pūkenga me ōu Wheako | What You’ll Bring

• 3–5+ years’ experience building cloud infrastructure with GCP and/or AWS, and strong platform‑product thinking.
• Experience building cloud foundations, including networking, identity, observability and security controls.
• Experience in Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform), Kubernetes, containers, GitOps and CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
• Exposure to Cloud Run, OpenTelemetry and modern platform engineering practices is highly desirable.
• Ability to work confidently with vendors and cross‑functional teams, engaging internal customers and communicating clearly.
• Understanding of modern software engineering practices and microservices architectures, and how developers build and ship services.
• You pair solid engineering judgement with action — moving work forward, communicating clearly, and avoiding analysis paralysis.
• You help others grow — sharing knowledge, pairing, and building a strong learning culture as we transition from vendor‑led to in‑house capability.
• Nice to have: Backstage, TypeScript, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Wiz, and observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Splunk); FinOps experience is a plus.

Tā Mātau ki a Koutou| What We Offer

• Boosted KiwiSaver with 4.5% employer contribution and life insurance as standard.
• 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave (extra leave for what’s important to you).
• Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex.
• Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.
• Annual $500 health & wellbeing payment.
• 14 Weeks paid parental leave.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities.
• employment type eligibility criteria apply

Applications close: Sunday 4 October 2026 11:59PM NZDT

Please note – full time, part time, and job-sharing arrangements will be considered.

Tā Mātau Ratonga Tautoko | Adjustments & Support

If you require any support or adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to [e-mail] for a confidential conversation.

He pitopito kōrero anō mō mātau | More About Us

As part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose-led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected. That’s not just words. It’s our people promise. We're ready for you with unexpected opportunities for your career, your work-life and your ability to make a difference. We acknowledge Tāngata Whenua in Aotearoa and are committed to growing Māori prosperity and wellbeing in Aotearoa through He Rautaki Māori (IAG’s Māori Strategy). We celebrate unique viewpoints shaped by life experiences, cultures and passions. And expand careers, genuinely connect with community, lead with a powerful purpose and celebrate what makes you individual.