Network Engineer

At Goodman Fielder our purpose is to make everyday food better for everyone. We own a host of iconic brands that generations of Australians have grown up with and put in their supermarket trolleys every week.
At Goodman Fielder our aspiration is to be the leading integrated food business in the Region. We are a team that believes that anything is possible. A team that understands our business and focuses on the right things that make the biggest difference and one that considers our end to end value chain when making decisions to optimise our business. We drive change as an opportunity for us to innovate and transform our business and to achieve beyond what we think is possible.

**About the Opportunity**:
At Goodman Fielder we are on a journey to revolutionise our business, and we're looking for capable team players with a hunger for bringing our vision to life. We are passionate about our brands and building a culture where we believe anything is possible. As such, we are looking for a Snr Network Engineer to be based at our head office within our offices in Auckland.

**The Primary purpose of this role is to**:

- Design and deploy functional networks (LAN, WLAN, WAN)
- Support and maintain routing and switching network services (Cisco) (SD WAN)
- Support and maintain Firewalls (Palo Alto) (Cisco)

Key Responsibilities will be.
- Working with key IT stakeholders ensure network design meets business needs.
- Support the development of the technology strategy and framework that's in line with the long term GF goals.
- Maintain technical documentation and diagrams
- Provide Support for all network related issues (Incidents/Service requests/Change
- Provide expert advice at the Technical Design meetings and raise awareness of existing standards and current systems.
- Managing vendor support through to resolution
- Promote a culture of innovation. Continuously seek opportunities for improvement within role, processes, team and the IT organisation as a whole.
- Contribute to the definition and validation of architecture principles and standards about Application and Infrastructure architecture standards.
- After hour support may be required.

**To be successful within this role you will have the following**:
**Technical Competencies**:

- Expert knowledge managing LAN/WAN (Cisco)
- Expert network troubleshooting skills and understanding of complex traffic flow
- Expert knowledge with SDWAN solutions like VMWare Velocloud
- Expert knowledge managing Firewalls (ASA/Palo Alto)
- Possess strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Can manage relationships across the organisation at multiple levels.
- Possess excellent communication skills both written and oral.

**Qualifications required**:

- CCNA Certification highly desirable
- Continuous relevant training and development to support career

Experience required
- 5 years' experience in network Infrastructure roles

Why Goodman Fielder?
With sites spanning across the Australasian region, working as part of a highly driven leadership team at Goodman Fielder, you can expect the opportunity to build your own home grown career across functions, locations and brands.
You will be working within an open and highly cross functional environment allowing you full exposure to our daily operations.
In return for your passion and success, we will reward you with a competitive remuneration package and help you to achieve personal and professional growth and development.
We also value a culture that promotes work life balance and flexibility (work from home options available).

**Next steps**: