Cloud Platform Engineer

Iag Insurance; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave + parental leave

Work from home options

Employee insurance

Job summary

IAG is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help build and evolve a self-service enterprise cloud platform across GCP and AWS. You will design and implement golden-path Terraform modules, strengthen platform foundations, and partner with vendors to uplift security, observability, and reliability.

Based in Auckland, Melbourne or Sydney, this role offers extensive collaboration with cross-functional teams and a focus on modern platform engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years’ experience building cloud infrastructure with GCP and/or AWS
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to Cloud Run and modern platform engineering practices
• Familiarity with observability tools and security controls
• Ability to work with vendors and cross-functional teams
• Understanding of microservices architectures and platform product thinking

Responsibilities

• Build self-service platform capabilities (GKE, Cloud Run, EKS) using Terraform, GitOps, and day 2 operational automation
• Contribute to BAU platform operations, including incident response and continuous improvement
• Enhance GCP foundations, including networking, identity, security, and observability
• Develop and maintain golden-path Terraform modules with standards enforced at deploy time
• Develop and enhance IDP capabilities including service catalogs and templates
• Create platform guardrails and policy as code to enable fast, reliable delivery
• Design observability and operational tooling to improve platform reliability and on-call patterns
• Support workload migration to Cloud Run and uplift cloud security via Wiz and CNAPP
• Collaborate with strategic vendors (Google, Wiz, AWS) and embed into delivery teams

Skills

GCP/AWS cloud platforms

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

Cloud Run

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Observability

Security controls

Vendor collaboration

Tools

GKE

EKS

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Splunk

Backstage

ArgoCD

Wiz

CNAPP

Job description

Job Description - Cloud Platform Engineer

AtIAG,we’reready for you.We'rethe 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 theirambitionsand 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'llhelp build and enhance the cloud foundations these workloads rely on, including networking, identity, security,observabilityand reusable platform patterns, while contributing to a unified Enterprise Cloud Platform across GCP and AWS.

In this role,you’llwork 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 multiplelocations inAuckland,Melbourneor Sydney.

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, andcontinuousimprovement work alongside greenfield delivery.

Enhance GCP foundations, including networking, hybrid connectivity, workload identity, secrets management and observability.

Develop and maintaingolden-pathTerraform 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 whilemaintainingreliability, security, and compliance.

Design observability and operational tooling, improving platform reliability and enabling strong on call support patterns.OpenTelemetryexposure 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,AWSand 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

3–5+ years’ experience building cloud infrastructure with GCP and/or AWS, and strongplatform ‑ productthinking.

Experience building cloud foundations, including networking, identity,observabilityand security controls.

Experience inInfrastructure ‑ as ‑ Code(Terraform), Kubernetes, containers,GitOpsand CI/CD (GitHub Actions).

Exposure to Cloud Run,OpenTelemetryand modern platform engineering practices is highly desirable.

Ability to work confidently with vendors andcross ‑ functionalteams, 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 fromvendor ‑ ledtoin ‑ housecapability.

Nice to have: Backstage, TypeScript,Crossplane,ArgoCD, Wiz, and observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Splunk); FinOps experience is a plus.

Boosted KiwiSaver with 4.5% employer contribution and life insurance as standard.

20 days annual leave + 5 daysMyLeave(extra leave forwhat’simportant to you).

Work from home and many more flexibility options withmyFlex.

Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.

14 Weeks paid parental leave.

Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, studyassistanceand secondment opportunities.

*employmenttype eligibility criteria apply

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

If you require any support or adjustments toparticipateequitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to [emailprotected] for a confidential conversation.