The Azure engineers who keep the platform up, the bill in check and everything connected.
FERG Search is a specialist recruiter for Azure platform engineers, FinOps leads, integration engineers, DevOps engineers and cloud architects in Australia and New Zealand, permanent and contract, for the AI and business applications that run on Azure. The search is run by the founder from Melbourne.
Every Dynamics 365, Business Central and Copilot programme has an integration layer, and in the programmes we see it is where go-lives slip. We place the integration engineers, DevOps engineers and cloud architects who connect Microsoft business applications to the rest of the estate and keep them connected.
AI has added a second job: running the platform the agents sit on, and keeping a bill that now moves with usage under control. The platform engineers and FinOps leads who own that are part of the same search.
First shortlist within 48 hours of an agreed brief.
The seats we fill in Azure platform and integration.
- Azure integration engineers: Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Bus, API Management.
- DevOps and platform engineers.
- Cloud architects.
- Azure platform engineers who own landing zones, networking and environments.
- FinOps and cloud cost leads for Azure and AI spend.
Checked technically and commercially, before you meet them.
- The integration they own in production, and how it fails.
- How they handle retries, monitoring and the three in the morning call.
- The pipeline and environment discipline they set.
- The cost and identity decisions they made, and why.
What the seat pays.
Integration briefs stall when the seat is budgeted as support and the job is architecture.
Integration, platform, FinOps and cloud architect bands are not in the first edition of the FERG Search Salary Guide; we publish a band only once our sample is large enough to stand behind. The first edition covers Dynamics 365, Business Central, Copilot Studio and senior AI engineering.
Straight answers on Azure platform and integration.
Do you place Azure integration engineers on contract?
Yes, permanent and contract across Australia and New Zealand. Integration is often the first contract seat on a Dynamics 365 programme and the first permanent seat after go-live.
Can a cloud engineer move into Microsoft AI?
Yes. Identity, networking, cost control, data access and deployment discipline are the foundations an AI platform needs, and a cloud engineer already has most of them. The step is learning Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio on top of what they know. The cloud team is the AI bench many businesses have not counted.
Which Azure skills do Dynamics 365 programmes need?
Integration first: Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Bus and API Management. Then identity, DevOps pipelines and the data platform that reporting depends on.
Do you recruit Azure and integration roles in New Zealand?
Yes, anywhere in New Zealand, including Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, permanent and contract, with the same founder running the search.
Do you recruit FinOps and cloud cost roles?
Yes. AI usage has made the Azure bill harder to forecast, and the people who can read it, predict it and cut it without breaking anything are a small group. We place FinOps leads and platform engineers who own spend, permanent and contract.
Brief an Azure or integration role.
Tell us what has to stay connected on go-live day.