Senior Systems Engineer

2 weeks ago


Christchurch, New Zealand Ravensdown Full time

**If you're keen to grow your career, there's no better place to nourish it than here. We're committed to providing our people with all they need to positively thrive. So, isn't it time you put your trust in the company that's been trusted throughout New Zealand for over 40 years?**

**_ To enable smarter farming for a better New Zealand _**_TM_**

**_ Ka pūkekotia a Rongomātāne, ka poho kererū a Aotearoa_**

**About the Company**:
Ravensdown is a farmer owned co-operative within the agricultural sector. We exist to help our farmers optimise soil fertility and productivity to run their businesses in a profitable and sustainable way with a focus on lowering environmental impact. Beyond fertiliser, we provide nutrient management services, technical advice and essential farm inputs delivered how, where and when they are needed by our customers.

**About the role**:
The Senior Systems Engineer is a highly skilled IT infrastructure practitioner who will lead, execute, and support a variety of both BAU (business as usual) and project activities to ensure the core systems infrastructure at Ravensdown is robust, reliable, performant, secure, and otherwise fit for purpose while continuously looking for opportunities to improve the effective use of technology to support the business strategy.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Ensure that the core infrastructure service lines are created in alignment with the overall Ravensdown strategy.
- Responsibility for maintenance and lifecycle planning key parts of the infrastructure team's core environment.
- Participate in required scheduled after-hours work, troubleshooting, and/ or on call availability as required.
- Log incidents in the incident management tool and create any knowledge articles as necessary to support the service desk or other team members to solve the issue in future.
- Where projects are managed provide clear scope and timelines, financials and resources planned and managed, risks assessed and mitigations and contingencies planned, and communications on project progress, issues, and other key events are timely and effective.
- Stay informed of technology development and market trends and their relevancy to Ravensdown core infrastructure.
- Ensure cost benefit analysis of any proposed new technologies is investigated and submitted for consideration to the relevant IT leaders.

**About you**:
**Essential Skills**
- Computer Science / Engineering degree or similar qualification or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 8 years working on a systems engineering role.
- Strong technical knowledge of physical and virtual infrastructure and supporting core services.
- Strong technical knowledge of enterprise Microsoft cloud services (Microsoft 365).
- Experience with cloud Infrastructure (AWS and Azure).
- Experience in multi-vendor environment and ability to manage ad build strong and effective vendor relationships.

**Desirable Skills**
- Industry based qualifications from Cisco, Microsoft, AWS or similar.
- Strong network and security skills.
- Experience in SQL database administration.

**Benefits**:

- Competitive salary package with life and health insurance
- Modern, open-plan working environment with free on-site parking
- Career opportunities in a fantastic cooperative.
- Great company culture.

**How to Apply**
- Ravensdown is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment drug test._

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
10558- Posted on
26 Nov 2024- Closes on
22 Dec 2024 23:00- Location(s)
Christchurch- Expertise
Information Technology- Job level(s)
Experienced- Work type(s)
Permanent full-time



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