System Specialist

Outcome driven? Ready for a challenge?
- Are you customer focused with a passion for facilitating problem solving?
- Do you love working to modernise systems and build on cloud technologies?
- Do you want to be part of an awesome digital team...

**Our Organisation**
Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine o Tararua MidCentral (MidCentral) is part of Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand and provides healthcare services to over 180,000 people across the Manawatū, Horowhenua and Tararua regions. With a large hospital campus in Palmerston North, it also provides key health care and support services to neighbouring communities.

**The Opportunity**

As a systems engineer you will be part of our Digital Services Infrastructure Team delivering and maintaining our IT infrastructure systems and providing technical support services to Te Whatu Ora MidCentral. In this role you will be responsible for ensuing all aspects of our hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure are operating optimally, reliably, and securely. As part of the Infrastructure Team, technologies you’ll own include our AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Citrix clouds, as well as our on-prem virtual server environment, identity, backup, security, and monitoring systems. You will provide technical expertise to projects, be a reliable escalation path for technical issues, and mentor/support your peers as we grow our knowledge and skills together as one team.

**About You**
You will have a passion for exceeding customer expectations by delivering to a high standard and demonstrating ownership for the systems and technologies you support. You will be a proactive-thinker, constantly looking for opportunities to automate and improve the services we provide as you work collaboratively across Digital Services and across MidCentral. As part of our diverse team, you will be capable of working both unsupervised and as part of group, where your sense of humour, energy and drive will contribute to the team culture and modernise how we deliver. Most importantly, you will understand the nature of the hospital and how critical it is that the systems and business processes you own, and support, ultimately affect patient outcomes.

**Come and join us**
Employing over 2500 people, MidCentral offers a supportive work environment that accepts and values all employees. We actively seek Māori kaimahi into our workforce and provide an environment which delivers our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

MidCentral region offers an excellent lifestyle for families with scenic spots for hiking and mountain-biking, great schools and tertiary institutions. With the mountains, city and sea at your doorstep, you’ll get to taste the best of both worlds - the perfect blend of rural and city living.

**Benefits**
- An encouraging learning environment where you will continue to grow and be challenged
- A professional and supportive culture and team setting
- Fulfilling and challenging work with great lifestyle options
- Tailored wellness programmes

**How to apply**

Check out what your new workplpace and home could look like with MidCentral

We strive to be a place where people love to work and learn. We aim to develop a diverse team that reflects the communities that we serve and we welcome people of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religious and political beliefs, socio-economic situations and accessibility needs.

MidCentral actively seeks Māori into our workforce to reflect the community we serve.

Most positions are defined as a Core Children’s worker under the Children’s Act and require full safety checks completed before employment commences.