Senior Cloud Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026.
Haere Mai!
We are the Kaitiaki / Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation. We are proud of our Te Whāinga / Our purpose: Sustainable investment delivering strong returns for all New Zealanders. We invest government contributions to the NZ Super Fund, a global investment fund helping to ensure the country can pay for the growing cost of universal superannuation (New Zealand Superannuation) in the future. We also oversee the Elevate Fund, which invests in small, fast-growing New Zealand companies.
At the Guardians there’s an energy, passion and a shared commitment to excellence: in 2024 the NZ Super Fund was named the world’s best-performing sovereign wealth fund. The work is complex, innovative and intellectually stimulating. Sustainable finance, including a commitment to being net zero by 2050, is core to our Mātāpono / way of working.
About the position
As Senior Cloud Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across the Guardians’ Microsoft Azure environment.
Sitting within the Cloud and Infrastructure team, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, reliable and cost-effective cloud solutions. You will manage services across Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service, while helping shape our cloud strategy, security approach and future roadmap.
This is a hands-on senior role that combines cloud engineering with technical leadership. You will mentor other cloud engineers, drive continuous improvement and work closely with teams across the Guardians and our external technology partners
What you’ll do
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, secure and cost-effective cloud solutions
- Provision, manage, monitor and decommission Microsoft Azure servers and services
- Act as a key point of contact for Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services
- Contribute to the Guardians’ cloud strategy, security approach and technology roadmap
- Establish and maintain cloud governance, including access controls, resource tagging, budget management and regulatory compliance
- Identify opportunities to improve cloud performance, resilience, automation, resource use and cost
- Apply infrastructure-as-code practices and support the development of self-healing and fault-tolerant services
- Lead responses to critical cloud outages or security incidents
- Manage cloud service providers and vendor relationships against business requirements and service levels
- Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to other cloud engineers
- Work with internal teams and technology partners to deliver projects and new solutions
- Stay current with cloud technologies and lead knowledge-sharing across the team.
About you
Significant information technology experience, with a strong focus on cloud technologies
- Extensive experience working within a Microsoft Azure environment
- Experience designing and implementing secure, resilient cloud solutions
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code practices
- Advanced cloud security capability
- Experience with self-healing and fault-tolerant services
- An understanding of stateless and loosely coupled distributed applications
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases, messaging and queuing API services
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with sound attention to detail
- The ability to explain technical ideas in clear, business-friendly language
- A customer-focused approach and experience delivering against service-level expectations
- A constructive, collaborative style and the ability to build strong internal and external relationships
- Experience providing technical guidance or mentoring to other engineers
What we offer
- A dynamic, exciting place to work with a team united by our common purpose of sustainable investment delivering strong returns for all New Zealanders.
- Competitive remuneration package including base salary, discretionary bonus programme, and up to 8% KiwiSaver matching.
- World class professional development, career pathways and job rotation opportunities.
- Comprehensive leave and benefits programme including strong parental leave package and insurance cover.
- Flexible and accessible work environment that reflects our commitment to equity and an inclusive team.
How to apply:
We encourage and welcome applications from people with diverse experience, including applicants interested in discussing flexible work options and those with specific disability needs. As a proudly committed equal opportunity employer, we challenge discrimination and actively work to eliminate bias in our hiring practices. Diversity of experience and diversity of background help us to solve complex problems and deliver on our purpose.
We recognise the importance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and invest in partnership with a range of Iwi/Māori organisations. We warmly welcome and value Mana Whenua who wish to work with us. We are committed to understanding Te Ao Māori and integrating it into our workplace culture, for the benefit of all future generations in Aotearoa.
This role is being recruited exclusively through our partner, Evolve Recruitment.
For any questions about the vacancy, please contact Tram Nguyen at [email protected]. The Evolve team will review your application and be in touch with you directly.
Please note that the Guardians will not review applications submitted directly to us.