Infrastructure Engineer

Southern Cross Health Society; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five days wellbeing leave per year

Health insurance for you and your whān

Life insurance cover and discounts on

Job summary

Southern Cross Health Society in Auckland is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platforms team as we modernise our cloud-first estate. You’ll bring automation-first and SRE thinking to day-to-day operations, improving monitoring, provisioning and overall reliability across on-premises and cloud environments.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure with delivery goals, automate provisioning, enhance monitoring, and implement

Qualifications

• Proven experience in infrastructure engineering and systems administration.
• Experience managing physical servers, storage, and network devices.
• Experience with Windows Server and Linux/Unix patching and hardening.
• Ability to design, implement and maintain scalable, reliable on‑premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with EUC/VDI environments and Azure networking is a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Help resolve incidents and problems with vendors and internal teams, and implement improvements.
• Maintain high availability, scalability and performance of systems.
• Automate provisioning and deployment of infrastructure.
• Improve monitoring and pursue self‑healing solutions.
• Strengthen security practices and ensure compliance.
• Document infrastructure configurations and processes.
• Collaborate with Value Streams and Technology Team to mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Share expertise and promote consistent policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate organizational values and KPIs with collaborative approaches.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Systems administration

Windows Server

Linux/Unix

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile mindset

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure networking

Front Door

Application Gateway

Traffic Manager

Virtual Networks

Private Endpoints

Job description

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Southern Cross Health Society – Auckland, North Island

Southern Cross is guided by purpose, powered by people and technology. We're here to help almost one million members across Aotearoa New Zealand live well for longer - work with real scale, real responsibility, and a real opportunity to make a meaningful difference.

As we accelerate our shift to a cloud-first, Azure-based technology estate, we're building a modern Infrastructure Platforms team to keep our on-premises and cloud environments reliable, secure and future-ready. We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help drive that transformation.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants to bring automation-first, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) thinking to day-to-day infrastructure operations - improving how we monitor, provision and manage infrastructure across the estate.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Principal Infrastructure Engineer within our Infrastructure Platforms team, you'll help drive the transformation of Infrastructure Life Cycle Management - covering cloud, hypervisors, virtual appliances and hardware assets - while ensuring our systems maintain high availability, scalability and optimal performance.

You'll work across both cloud and on-premises environments: automating provisioning and deployment, improving monitoring and exploring self-healing solutions, and partnering with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure with delivery goals.

What you'll do

• Help resolve and investigate incident and problem tickets by working with vendors and other support teams, and make improvements when needed
• Ensure systems maintain high availability, scalability, and optimal performance
• Automate the provisioning and deployment of infrastructure
• Improve monitoring systems, explore self-healing solutions, and implement enhancements
• Adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements
• Document infrastructure processes and configurations thoroughly
• Collaborate proactively with Value Streams and the broader Technology Team to mitigate risks associated with known vulnerabilities
• Participate in the community of practice by sharing expertise and promoting consistency in policies and procedures
• Demonstrate organisational values, achieve established KPIs, and adopt working methods that foster collaboration, accountability, and flexibility

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure engineering and systems administration.
• Manage and maintain physical servers, storage systems and network devices, handling troubleshooting, upgrades and configuration changes.
• Install, configure and patch Windows Server and Linux/Unix systems, keepingthem secure and supportable
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions, both on-premises and cloud-based
• Advantageous: EUC environments including desktop virtualisation solutions (Microsoft AVD / W365, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops), and endpoint management
• Advantageous: Azure networking services, such as Front Door, Application Gateway (WAF), Traffic Manager, Load Balancers, Virtual Networks (VNets), Private Endpoints, or comparable technologies
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
• An Agile mindset - flexible, curious, adaptable, and committed to continuous improvement
• Behavioral strengths including collaboration, self-awareness, accountability, openness to feedback, and a positive approach to change

Who we are

Join a proud, diverse team that's always there, always real, always true. If you thrive in a caring, honest and open culture, we think you'll love working with us.

We know our team's culture and wellbeing drive us forward. That's why we prioritise not only professional development but opportunities to thrive personally. We offer exceptional work/life balance, and our people are encouraged - and rewarded - for living well.

Southern Cross employee benefits include:

• Five days of wellbeing leave per year
• Health insurance for you and your immediate whānau
• Life insurance cover and discounts on pet and travel insurance
• Extra parental leave benefits and financial wellbeing support
• Participation in our workplace wellbeing programme
• The option to purchase flexi leave for study, volunteering, or supporting your whānau
• An annual volunteer day to contribute to a cause with your team

This role is Auckland based. While we appreciate interest from candidates in other locations, we're unfortunately not able to consider remote options.