Cloud Engineers - AWS or Azure

Location: Wellington
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Matt Frizzell
Contact email: matt@placeme.nz
Published: over 1 year ago

​Mind in the cloud, but your head firmly screwed onto your shoulders?

You might just be the Cloud Engineer we’re looking for!

We have excellent roles for Cloud Engineers working with AWS and Azure (pick your poison!) with a Platform focus. Even better – with offices in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, work in the city that suits you best!

About the company:

An innovative, market-leading transformation organisation, focused on cloud-based solutions. You will work with a team of experienced Cloud & Digital consultants to help make up the best cloud migration organisation in the country,

What you’ll be doing:

  • Providing continuous cloud development and operations including automation

  • Assisting with cloud environment implementation, configuration, migration, and re-factor activities. 

  • Helping set up and run tooling including CI/CD and IaC implementation.

About you:

You’ll be friendly, switched-on and a strong problem solver. You’ll come from a software development background and be organized, keen to learn and familiar with Agile methodologies.

If AWS is your thing, you’ll have the following skills:

  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK or similar) 

  • CI / CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Azure DevOps or similar) 

  • Experience with most of the core AWS services (EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Route 53,CloudWatch, ELB, SNS, SQS, Lambda) 

  • Container technology (Docker, Kubernetes or similar) 

  • Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar) 

  • Scripted VM image baking (Packer, custom scripts or similar), Scripted VM configuration management (Ansible, Puppet or similar) 

  • AWS Landing Zones (Control Tower or similar) 

  • Automated testing processes and tooling 

Team Azure? We’ll look for the following skills:

  • Terraform, Ansible, Chef

  • Git, Bittbucket, Jenkins

  • Office, G-Suite

  • SharePoint Online, Confluence

  • Jira, Trello, VSTS

  • YAML, JSON, CLI, PowerShell

  • Python, .Net Node, Java, C#

  • Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines 

Not required, but any experience with the below would perk our ears: 

  • Current certifications in any of the above

  • Migration of on-premise or IaaS resources into public cloud 

  • Serverless application development on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB or similar) 

  • Machine Learning AWS Service exposure (SageMaker, Rekognition, or similar) 

  • IoT experience on AWS 

It's an incredibly exciting time to join this growing organisation, and there's even more to come. If you want to join and be part of something great, click APPLY NOW.