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Cloud DevOps Engineer

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Summary

Cloud DevOps Engineer placed with a high-profile NZ client's Auckland team: engineering, automating, monitoring and supporting Azure cloud and hybrid platforms, building secure CI/CD pipelines and Terraform IaC, managing Entra ID/RBAC, and owning incidents through diagnosis and root-cause analysis.

You’re good at what you do. And because of that you’ve got plenty of choices about who you work for and what you do. Rather than filling the next page with corporate platitudes and fluff, we’ll cut to the chase...

What's on offer?
We are supporting a high-profile NZ client in the supply of an additional Cloud DevOps Engineer to supplement their Auckland team.

In this role, you can expect to sit across operations, service delivery and continuous improvement activities. This includes engineering, automating, monitoring, and supporting cloud and hybrid platforms, as well as owning technical problems through diagnosis, remediation, and root-cause analysis.

Additionally, this role will see you designing and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines and reusable Infrastructure as Code, monitoring cloud consumption, maintaining documentation, as well as leading and supporting controlled proof of concepts and production adoption of new capabilities.

What you'll bring
  • At least four years of Azure cloud experience
  • Strong hands-on skills in Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Terraform
  • Strong knowledge of Azure networking, including Virtual Networks, subnets, routing, DNS, and network security controls
  • Experience with Azure Front Door, Content Delivery Network (CDN), and Application Gateway
  • Experience deploying, configuring, securing, and supporting Azure Virtual Machines
  • Experience with Microsoft Entra ID application management, Conditional Access policies, and secure secret management
  • Strong understanding of Azure RBAC, access reviews, privileged access, and permission management.
Haven't heard about Optic Digital?
So why do any of that with us? We’re good people who are well connected into great clients. We know what we’re doing, and we’ll back you 100% to get the role you’re after. We’ll get to know you, and what you like, so we can have your next role ready when you are.

We’ll pay you as much as we can and as your skills and experiences grow, we’ll go into bat for you and help you recognise that growing value too. And the best proof of that? Most of our contractor team have been with us for years, across multiple roles, employers, projects, babies, pandemics etc.

We pride ourselves on knowing IT people and we would like to get to know you.

Wanna talk?
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The small print

This ad will run until 25.09.2026, but may close early if we find the right candidate sooner. Please only apply via Seek.

Please note, only applicants who are eligible to work in New Zealand and can make themselves available for interviews in Auckland will be considered.

For any questions regarding the role, please get in touch with Lucy at Lucy.fowles@opticdigital.com.

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