Kaipūhanga Pūnaha Mātāmua Senior Systems

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
- Take a leadership role by mentoring, coaching, and peer reviewing other members in the team and the Systems Engineering & Design Guild
- Work flexibly - including family-friendly hours
- Permanent role working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
- Christchurch 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 - $124,651 negotiable + superannuation
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- An environment where we can all be leaders, where your ideas and input are encouraged
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- 3 extra leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
- Various social, network and support groups (toastmasters, multi-cultural, social club)
- Modern, collaborative spaces in central city-based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs

Te tūnga | The role
This role is a key part of the Processing Service Line in Technology Services at Stats NZ. We work on various systems processing our data.

**Knowledge and experience you will bring to the role**:

- Strong experience in SQL Database Administration
- Strong skills in Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering including server provisioning, support, and maintenance in a hybrid Azure environment
- Experience in scripting e.g., Python, PowerShell, or Bash
- Experience in automation, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- An understanding of Cyber security
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Git, Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Setting, maintaining, and improving the standards of the environment and promote adherence
- If you have Sybase Administration skills to bring to us - even better
- Ability to work within and support a multi-located business
- Great work commitment, tenacity, resilience, and a pragmatic approach with strong problem-solving skills

You will work collaboratively with cross-functional technical teams, helping us implement our vision. You will also work with the wider community of System Engineers growing the effectiveness of our technology services and processes.
You will have a proven track record as a Senior System Engineer in a hybrid cloud environment, combining strong back-office systems and network operations engineering experience with solid business user support acumen.
Your passion for learning will be seen through your initiatives to learn new tools and products, keeping ahead of the latest developments, and finding ways to continuously improve current processes and standards.
Nōu te rourou | What you bring
We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., whanau, church, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.
We want to see the following in your cover letter and CV any information relating to:

- Relevant technical experience
- Why Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is the place for you, why us, and why Government?
- Any information about your knowledge and experience, or desire to learn and build knowledge and experience of Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori, and engagement with Māori.
- How you've demonstrated or encouraged diversity and inclusion in and/or outside of work.
- Examples of strong relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
- Examples where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g. lifted others up, led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
- Examples where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, reflected on your own and other's behaviours, attitudes or motivations to learn.
- Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, collaborated with teams to deliver solutions.

Ko mātou |About Us
Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistical outputs to support the decisions that the Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs and New Zealanders make every day. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

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