Senior Cloud Engineer - Google Cloud

Job Description

Kia Ora!

Air New Zealand is on a bold journey to become the world’s leading digital airline. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer - Google Cloud (Internal job title: Infrastructure Operations Specialist) to design, build, and optimise the platforms that power our digital products and services. This role is an opportunity to apply your technical expertise in GCP at scale, helping shape infrastructure that is secure, resilient, and future-fit. 

As part of our Digital Platforms Tribe, you’ll work with product and app teams across the business, enabling innovation while ensuring platforms meet the highest standards of performance and reliability. You’ll be hands-on in architecture, automation, and optimisation, and play a key role in lifting Air New Zealand’s adoption of cloud-native practices. 

How you’ll make an impact 

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions on Google Cloud Platform. 
• Build automation and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Cloud Deployment Manager. 
• Optimise workloads for performance, cost, and reliability. 
• Build robust and scalable deployment mechanisms of cloud-native applications and microservices. 
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex platform issues to maintain 24/7 reliability. 
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and industry standards. 
• Partner with development and operations teams to improve developer experience and continuous delivery pipelines. 
• Stay current with emerging GCP services and advise on adoption opportunities. 

What we’re looking for 

• Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform, including IAM, networking, storage, and compute services. 
• Experience building automation with Terraform, Deployment Manager, or similar IaC tools. 
• Solid understanding of containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (GKE preferred). 
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. 
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles and application in enterprise environments. 
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues. 
• Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud environments is an advantage, with some exposure to AWS or Azure preferred. 
• A collaborative mindset with excellent problem-solving and communication skills. 

If you bring most of these skills along with a drive to grow, we’d love to hear from you. 

• What’s in it for you
• We want our people to live their best lives and enjoy benefits that support them inside and outside of work. At Air New Zealand, you’ll have access to: 
• Discounted flights for you and your whānau across Air New Zealand and partner airlines. 
• FlexiLeave, with the option to purchase up to 4 extra weeks off each year. 
• Koruhealth low-cost medical cover exclusive to Air New Zealanders and their families. 
• Up to 4% employer contributions to KiwiSaver or FlexiSaver. 
• Learning and development opportunities to accelerate your cloud career. 
• Your journey starts here 
• Bring your Google Cloud expertise to one of New Zealand’s most iconic brands and help us deliver platforms that keep our airline at the leading edge. Apply today. 

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."