He kōrero mō mātou | About Watercare

Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata

When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy nourished

Watercare is the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand supplying more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. Now is an exciting time to join Watercare, we're planning to spend $18.5 billion over the next 20 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. When you average that out, that's an investment of $2.5 million every day.

It doesn't just stop there; we ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of everything that we do to help protect our water resources for future generations. This means that we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our whole of life carbon footprint through our construction programme, and across the lifecycle operation of our assets. We really are a company that wants to make a positive difference.

He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role

We're looking for a Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, automation, and operation of Watercare's HyperV, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), and supporting cloud platforms. You'll play a key role in ensuring our OT (Operational Technology), Control & Instrumentation (C&I), and cloud infrastructure environments are secure, reliable, and built to a high operational standard. This supports both project delivery and business-as-usual (BAU) operations across Watercare. As a senior member of the Digital Engineering and Cloud teams, you'll also provide mentorship, technical leadership, and escalation support to engineers working across OT, operations, and cloud BAU teams. You'll work closely with OT specialists and Enterprise Architects to deliver outcomes aligned with Watercare's Digital Strategy.

• Lead and optimize Watercare's HyperV and HCI infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement across OT and cloud platforms to support efficient operations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with squads, system owners, and vendors to deliver aligned infrastructure solutions.
• Apply Agile and ITIL best practices to balance speed, stability, and governance in infrastructure delivery.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to team members and support knowledge sharing across disciplines.
• Manage infrastructure risk and contribute to secure, scalable platform design and operation.
• Maintain cloud operations expertise, particularly in Azure, with a focus on lifecycle management and patching.
• Promote a high-performance culture centered on excellence, shared ownership, and continuous learning.
  
  

Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you

• 5 years of experience in managing HyperV stack, Public Cloud, virtualization, and related infrastructure
• Five years of experience migrating workloads from on-premise HyperV or HCI infrastructure & other cloud platforms to Microsoft Azure, or vice versa.
• Experience with HyperV high-performance tuning, patching and reporting on platform health and lifecycle
• Exceptional communication skills written & verbal including with senior business managers
• Experience with scale. FinOps or the FinOps methodology across cloud platforms would be of advantage.
• Proficient in automation scripting and developing CI/CD pipelines - one or more of: Jenkins, Cloud Build, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Puppet, Chef, Ansible,
• SysOps/DevOps experience working alongside Software development teams
• SQL DB administrative experience would be of advantage, both PaaS or 'on prem'
• Proficient with backup solutions, Veeam
  
  

Ngā hua mōu | What's in it for you

• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible working
• Life and income protection insurance plans
• Generous parental leave policy
• Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
  
  

Me pēhea te tono mai | How to Apply

Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today - www.careers.watercare.co.nz.