Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Software Engineering

All New Zealand

Permanent

Dom Gunn-Taylor
Dom Gunn-Taylor

Executive General Manager

Posted

May 8, 2026

  • Lead infrastructure engineering across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
  • Drive platform modernisation and cloud transformation initiatives
  • Influence engineering adoption of AI-driven automation tooling
About the Company
Our client is a globally recognised technology organisation delivering enterprise-scale tax administration systems to governments around the world. With a strong engineering culture and a mission-driven focus, they help nations modernise critical public infrastructure through innovative cloud and platform solutions.

About the Role
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced cloud infrastructure professional to shape and evolve a modern platform engineering capability. You’ll lead a high-performing team while driving cloud strategy, infrastructure automation, resilience, security, and operational excellence across complex enterprise environments.

Skills & Experience
  • Proven experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and scalable platform architecture
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and automation
  • Experience operating within secure or highly regulated environments
  • Strong leadership experience mentoring and growing engineering teams
  • Knowledge of observability, FinOps, disaster recovery, and resilience planning
Why Work Here?
  • Lead meaningful global technology transformation projects
  • Collaborative engineering culture with strong technical ownership
  • Work with modern cloud-native technologies and automation practices
  • Opportunity to influence AI adoption within engineering workflows
  • Flexible Work from Home arrangements
  • Career progression within a growing international technology business
  • Supportive team culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement
If you’re passionate about building modern infrastructure platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or contact dom@talent.army for more information.

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