Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Remote & Flexible

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

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.