Kaipūkaha Pūnaha Matua Senior System Engineer

6 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Statistics New Zealand Full time

**Kaipūhanga Pūnaha Mātāmua | Senior Systems Engineer (Permanent)**

Play a key part in building and improving information/data services and processes that help us ensure New Zealanders have quality data and statistics.
- Lead, design, and champion the provision of technical engineering practices which supports the organisation's objectives
- Provide expert consultancy services to business and projects in a multisystem environment
- Permanent role working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
- Wellington based

**Mōu | For you**

Taturanga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, race, ability, religion, and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves.

**Starting salary: $93,177 to $124,651 + superannuation**
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs, and an opportunity to work part of the week remotely
- Flexibility by default; balance life and work commitments
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, secondments, study support and training)
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
- Free annual flu jab, eye tests and subsidised eyewear
- An environment where we can all be leaders, where your ideas and input are encouraged
- Join various social, network and support groups (toastmasters, multi-cultural, social club)

**Te tūnga | The role**

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer. The position is located within the Analytics service line of Technology Services, working with other systems engineers and analyst developers, and alongside our ICT Business Analyst, Service Assurance Consultant, Service Portfolio Manager, Solution Architects, and business users. The successful applicant shall work collaboratively with systems engineers from other service lines to design, develop, and deploy, new capabilities via user stories and acceptance criteria, while ensuring the data integrity of our systems.

Applicants need to have knowledge, at an Enterprise scale, of the following:

- Complex distributed systems
- SAFe Agile principles and practices
- IT operations, in an Always-Up, Always-Available service environment
- Load balancing, networking, and routing
- Patch management (automated and manual) along with other security mechanisms

**Nōu te rourou | What you bring**

As a member of a Technology Delivery team, comprising approximately eight members and reporting to a Technology Delivery Manager, you would:

- Establish best practices for infrastructure and networking
- Evaluate and propose the best tools and practices to meet our needs
- Commit to developing your own, and our other systems engineer's, technical competencies and organisational knowledge
- Maintain, optimise, and support, our technical platforms to in-house standards, and industry best practices, on time and to budget
- Negotiate trade-offs between conflicting demands - costs, customer experience, downtime, flexibility, scalability and sustainability
- Exhibit effective management of change, incidents, service requests and other work items, to deliver successful outcomes
- Demonstrate an ability for establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships, communicating clearly with a diverse audience
- Have recent experience in a Senior Systems Engineer position, in a corporate Enterprise environment
- Automated deployment of Cloud APIs, via AWS, Azure, VRA, or similar
- Kubernetes/containerisation, or similar
- Microsoft Windows (administrating multiple versions)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or Ubuntu Linux
- Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar
- Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, Ansible
- NGINX, or similar
- PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar
- 5 years experience working as a System Engineer

Previous experience in either, or both, of the following is advantageous, but not essential:

- R-programming language and operating environments
- SAS 9.4, SAS Viya, and/or SAS Enterprise Guide, environments

We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience, gained from outside of work (e.g. cultural, community work, sports, volunteering) and any comparable roles in a different sector or industry.
- We would also like to hear about any of the following in your cover letter and CV:

- Your knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori
- How you've demonstrated, encouraged, or supported diversity and inclusion in, or outside, of work
- Examples of key relationships you've built, and how and why those relationships were important
- Instances where you've demonstrated leadership, g. led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, or spoken up for yourself or others
- Instances where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, learned, and applied or shared your



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