Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer

Our purpose

Here at Datacom, we take great pride in connecting people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

Our team

We have an outstanding Azure engineering opportunity that you won’t want to miss! You will be joining a fantastic team within our Public Cloud practice, where collaboration and mutual support across business units and locations are core values. This is your chance to be part of a business and team that places a strong emphasis on both people and customer success.

About the Role

As a Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for delivering high-quality cloud solutions and projects, leveraging your technical expertise to drive business outcomes within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem — covering IaaS, PaaS, and related cloud services.

We are looking for an individual with a growth mindset who is always learning, has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and possesses strong technical knowledge of Azure platform engineering.

What you’ll do

Your day-to-day activities will include designing, engineering, and delivering technical solutions for clients using Azure services, with a focus on automation and infrastructure-as-code, while maintaining strong client relationships.

As a Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer, your key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Engineering – providing expert technical guidance and solutions to resolve business challenges.
• Implementation, migration, and transformation – delivering cloud platform solutions on Azure.
• Developing and maintaining strong internal and external relationships, demonstrating technical excellence throughout all engagements.

What you’ll bring

This role suits a collaborative and proactive professional passionate about cloud technologies and delivering excellent solutions that meet client needs. Ideally, you will have 5+ years in IT with at least 3 years’ experience in cloud project delivery or platform engineering.

We want to hear about your hands-on experience delivering complex Azure cloud projects, your strong communication skills, and your ability to build trusted client relationships.

• Highly Desirable Skills and Experience
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, or equivalent certifications
• Experience deploying Azure Landing Zones for medium to large enterprises using Azure CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) best practices
• Migration of services to and within Azure, including lift-and-shift and cloud-native transformations
• Intermediate to expert experience with Infrastructure as Code using, Bicep and/or Terraform
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline design and implementation using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, including leveraging GitHub Copilot to accelerate development productivity and improve code quality
• Good working knowledge of accelerator-based deployments and vending architectures to streamline and standardise cloud infrastructure delivery
• Advanced Azure security and networking skills including Azure AD, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Azure Policy, Azure Security Center, VNets, Subnets, NSGs, and Azure Firewall
• Container orchestration and management experience using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI), and Docker
• Experience with Windows and Linux operating systems in cloud environments
• Integration experience with identity and federation providers such as Azure AD, ADFS, or third-party SSO solutions

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is one of the largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services in New Zealand and Australia. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give us our unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom, you'll be recognized and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide career opportunity in a collegial and agile environment that empowers people and promotes innovation. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as health insurance, employee discounts, social events, remote working, flexi-hours, and professional development courses to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help our largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their biggest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.