Strategic Cloud & Infrastructure Domain Architect

Watercare; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development

Life and income protection

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Watercare is seeking an experienced Domain Architect - Cloud & Infrastructure to shape the future of its cloud and technology infrastructure in Auckland. You will define standards, patterns and roadmaps, working with Enterprise and Solution Architects, Platform Engineers and security teams to deliver scalable, secure and resilient infrastructure.

This role blends strategic architecture with hands-on guidance, shaping cloud landing zones, IaC practices and modern platform engineering across

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale solution and infrastructure architecture.
• Proven ability to plan roadmaps and target-state architectures.
• Knowledge of IaaS and PaaS environments; cloud platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and modern platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Shape Watercare’s cloud and infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
• Define architecture principles, standards and patterns.
• Design enterprise cloud platforms and landing zones.
• Advise on legacy infrastructure rationalisation.
• Provide architectural assurance across projects and programmes.
• Collaborate with Security, Engineering and Architecture teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure architecture

Azure cloud

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Stakeholder management

Security architecture

TOGAF certification

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure

Networking

Job description

Watercare is seeking an experienced Domain Architect - Cloud & Infrastructure to shape the future of its cloud and technology infrastructure in Auckland. You will define standards, patterns and roadmaps, working with Enterprise and Solution Architects, Platform Engineers and security teams to deliver scalable, secure and resilient infrastructure.

This role blends strategic architecture with hands-on guidance, shaping cloud landing zones, IaC practices and modern platform engineering across