Head of Cloud

We're looking for a Head of Cloud to join our team in Christchurch. The Cloud Operations team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Christchurch office Tuesday to Thursday.

Responsibilities

• Design VPCs and VNets, subnets, routing, VPN and Direct Connect or ExpressRoute links.
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog.
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources.
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Support application teams with load balancers, Route 53 or Azure DNS, and certificates.
• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing.
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.

Preferred

• Background in a regulated industry such as healthcare or finance.
• GCP experience.
• Kubernetes on EKS or AKS.

What we offer

• KiwiSaver contributions.
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year.
• Flexible hours.
• Hybrid working.
• Annual bonus.
• Employee assistance programme.

About the company

Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules. Tickets live in ConnectWise and everyone logs time to the quarter hour.

Applications close when we find the right person.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Trellishall IT.