Cloud Engineer | Contract | Auckland (hybrid)
Join a leading consultancy working as part of their AI Enablement squad.
Join a leading consultancy working as part of their AI Enablement squad.
About the role
This role is foundational rather than feature-focused. You’ll be instrumental in standing up the production-grade Azure AI environment, moving from proof-of-concept into a secure, scalable Enterprise Landing Zone that enables future AI solutions.
This role is foundational rather than feature-focused. You’ll be instrumental in standing up the production-grade Azure AI environment, moving from proof-of-concept into a secure, scalable Enterprise Landing Zone that enables future AI solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and implementing Azure hosting infrastructure to support AI workloads
- Establishing Azure AI Foundry and associated platform foundations
- Migrating an existing Azure AI Landing Zone from a POC tenant into the production Enterprise Landing Zone (ELZ)
- Implementing and configuring an AI spoke within the new ELZ architecture
- Ensuring alignment with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards
- Working closely with architects, platform engineers, and AI specialists within the AI Enablement squad
You bring strong senior-level experience as a Cloud Engineer in Azur environments, including hands-on expertise with:
- Azure Landing Zones (Enterprise-scale)
- Networking, identity, security, and governance in complex Azure estates
- Subscription design, spokes/hubs, and workload isolation
- Experience moving solutions from POC or innovation tenants into production
- Ability to operate in environments with strong architecture and compliance requirements
- Experience supporting AI or data platforms (e.g. Azure AI services, data or ML workloads)
- Familiarity with AI-specific landing zone or spoke patterns
- Experience working in enablement or platform squads
**Please note that only applicants currently based in New Zealand with the appropriate work rights (valid visa) will be considered**
