Senior Azure Platform Engineer

OSS Group; Auckland, Wellington; Remote; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OSS Group is seeking a senior Azure Platform Engineer to strengthen our cloud environment and elevate the internal team's capabilities in Auckland, New Zealand. You’ll be the technical escalation point for the Azure platform, improving how it’s built, secured, and run, while mentoring engineers to grow their skills.

You’ll drive Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or Pulumi, manage Azure DevOps pipelines, and ensure robust identity, networking, and governance practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in running Azure at scale and resolving complex incidents.
• Strong IaC experience using Terraform or Pulumi.
• Hands-on with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Solid understanding of identity, networking, security and governance in cloud environments.
• Passion for mentoring and lifting team capability.

Skills

Microsoft Azure platform engineering

Infrastructure as code

Terraform

Pulumi

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Identity, access, networking, security

Code review & documentation

Mentoring & knowledge transfer

On-call / after-hours support

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Azure DevOps

Job description

We’re looking for a senior Azure Platform Engineer who can strengthen our cloud environment and grow the capability of our internal team. You’ll be the technical escalation point for our Microsoft Azure platform, improving how it’s built, secured and run, and mentoring our engineers along the way. This role suits a hands‑on engineer who enjoys solving complex problems and sharing what they know.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong experience in Microsoft Azure platform engineering, operations and troubleshooting
• Infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform or Pulumi
• Azure DevOps repositories, CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Solid understanding of identity, access, networking, security and cloud governance
• Ability to review and improve existing code, patterns and technical documentation
• A genuine interest in knowledge transfer, mentoring and lifting team capability
• Availability for urgent or after‑hours support when required