Senior Azure Cloud & Infra Engineer – Automation

Southern Cross Medical Care Society; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five days of wellbeing leave per year

Health insurance for you and your whān

Life insurance cover and discounts on…

Extra parental leave benefits and more

Workplace wellbeing programme

Flexi leave for study/volunteering

Annual volunteer day

Job summary

Southern Cross Health Insurance is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to lead the design, build and optimization of our Azure-based infrastructure in Auckland. You’ll own cloud reliability, security and cost-efficiency while advancing automation and self-service capabilities.

You will collaborate with engineering leaders and fellow cloud engineers, mentor peers, and contribute to engineering standards. This hands-on role requires strong Azure experience and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure cloud engineering experience.
• Experience designing & delivering complex cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones.
• Automation, scripting & CI/CD experience.
• Experience across Azure cloud & hybrid environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, monitoring & incident-management capability.
• Ability to explain technical decisions & trade-offs clearly.
• Experience mentoring or developing other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build & improve Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Take cloud solutions from design through to delivery.
• Build reusable Terraform/IaC modules, automation & deployment patterns.
• Improve self-service & standardisation, reducing manual work.
• Keep platforms secure, resilient, reliable & cost-effective.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, root cause analysis & lasting fixes.
• Help shape engineering standards & better ways of working.
• Mentor other engineers & share technical knowledge.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

Terraform / IaC

Automation

CI/CD

Hybrid cloud environments

Troubleshooting

Monitoring

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Southern Cross Health Insurance is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to lead the design, build and optimization of our Azure-based infrastructure in Auckland. You’ll own cloud reliability, security and cost-efficiency while advancing automation and self-service capabilities.

You will collaborate with engineering leaders and fellow cloud engineers, mentor peers, and contribute to engineering standards. This hands-on role requires strong Azure experience and a track record of delivering