Job Description
Does driving innovation and creating better experiences through technology inspire you?
At Re-Leased, we’re levelling up real estate and helping property professionals thrive in a digital-first world. Our cloud-based property management platform combines smart automation, AI-driven insights, and deep industry expertise to make everyday work simpler and more rewarding. We’re here to help property people run better businesses, build stronger communities, and love what they do.
Your Role
We're looking for a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to join our small, highly experienced Platform team — based in Napier or working remotely from anywhere in New Zealand. In this role you'll own, evolve, and secure Re-Leased's Azure cloud infrastructure. You'll advance our Infrastructure as Code, design networking and cloud architecture patterns, maintain core shared services, and influence architecture decisions across engineering. You'll operate with a high degree of autonomy and work directly with the VP Engineering – Platform + Data.
Your Responsibilities
Own and maintain our Infrastructure as Code frameworks, incrementally migrating resources into IaC, refining modules, and addressing technical debt
Design and implement Azure networking architecture including VNets, private endpoints, NSGs, WAF, and Azure Front Door or similar edge protection services
Ensure applications are correctly isolated following secure-by-default cloud principles
Manage the lifecycle, patching, configuration, and monitoring of Platform-owned VMs and self-hosted services including our CI/CD agents
Diagnose infrastructure-related performance issues and incidents, providing deep analysis and driving long-term improvements over reactive fixes
Refine and automate Azure cost and operational reporting, identifying meaningful optimisation opportunities and surfacing architectural risks
Review and evolve our edge services strategy, influencing platform-wide architecture decisions relating to security, performance, and scalability
Promote strong tagging, governance, identity, and policy standards across cloud resources
Participate in the Engineering Team's on-call roster
Use agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude) to accelerate delivery while maintaining high accuracy in IaC, documentation, and analysis tasks
Your Experience
10+ years in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or similar roles
Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure — networking, identity, private endpoints, monitoring, and cloud security best practices
Strong Infrastructure as Code experience including module design and multi-environment structure (we use Terraform)
Experience maintaining VM-based CI/CD infrastructure and platform tooling (we use Azure DevOps with a mix of Azure + self-hosted agents)
Understanding of distributed systems, performance optimisation, observability, and incident analysis
Ability to script or program in one or more languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.)
Experience operating in SaaS with a cloud based production environment
Familiarity with agentic coding tools and AI-assisted workflows
We are a Microsoft Azure shop and have woven the use of AI tooling and products into how we work and what we build. Our Platform team manages core cloud infrastructure using Terraform for IaC, Azure DevOps for CI/CD, and tools like Azure Front Door, Key Vault, and Managed Identity across our environments. Experience with Azure networking, cost management, or governance tooling is a bonus so make sure to call this out in your application.
Our culture is very important to us too, and we strongly believe in living out our core values:
People First: One team globally; our people and customers always come first.
Find a Way: Like a river, we find a way around all obstacles
Win or Learn: Our journey for improvement never ends; enjoy the ride!
Aim High: We dare to set big goals and love the challenge of achieving them against the odds.
Why you’ll love working here!
Taking care of you: Including comprehensive health insurance, access to a premium EAP service and an annual wellness allowance to spend on what helps you feel good - whether that’s towards a gym membership, new running shoes, or mindfulness apps.
Support for families: Generous paid parental leave and flexible, family-friendly support designed to help growing families balance work and life with confidence.
Recognition for tenure and milestones: We celebrate time, commitment, and contribution with milestone rewards and additional leave as you grow your career with us.
Flexible working, built for a global team: With customers and teammates across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America, we work in a hybrid, remote-friendly way with collaborative offices and the flexibility of a balanced approach to WFH/in-office work.
Ready to Level Up?
Join us and help shape the future of real estate at one of the most exciting SaaS companies born from New Zealand.
www.re-leased.com