CloudOps Engineer - Scale a Global IoT Platform

Gallagher Animal Management; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Career growth

Modern tools and equipment

KiwiSaver contributions

Staff discounts

Job summary

eShepherd is expanding its CloudOps capabilities to support a global IoT platform powering livestock management. In Hamilton, you’ll own designing and operating scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.

You’ll work with AWS ECS/EKS, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools, collaborating with software teams across regions to deliver secure, high-performance solutions for farmers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience operating and scaling production AWS environments.
• Strong DevOps and cloud engineering capability.
• Experience with ECS, EKS or containerised platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform.
• Strong CI/CD and automation skills.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and incident response.
• Database optimisation and performance tuning experience.
• Python, Node.js or similar scripting capability.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and optimising AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Improving platform reliability, performance and scalability.
• Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strengthening monitoring, observability and incident response practices.
• Supporting multi-region deployments and global platform architecture.
• Improving database performance and operational efficiency.
• Investigating and solving complex performance challenges before customers experience them.
• Working closely with software engineers to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Skills

AWS operations

DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Monitoring

Scripting (Python/Node.js)

Distributed teams

Tools

ECS

EKS

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

eShepherd is expanding its CloudOps capabilities to support a global IoT platform powering livestock management. In Hamilton, you’ll own designing and operating scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.

You’ll work with AWS ECS/EKS, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools, collaborating with software teams across regions to deliver secure, high-performance solutions for farmers worldwide.