Senior Network Engineer

Be part of a collaborative ICT Infrastructure and Operations team with opportunities for professional development
- Thrive on being innovative and working at pace in assisting FENZ to achieve business outcomes
- Collaborate, maintain and provide high quality information to stakeholder groups
- Be part of the team to move to modern and fit for purpose ICT solutions

Join our Network and Security team within Fire and Emergency New Zealand as a Senior Network Engineer and utilise your knowledge within a supportive team and make a real difference to the business

**Who are we**:
Fire and Emergency New Zealand is a Crown Entity established on 1 July 2017 under the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017. The role of our new organisation is to reduce unwanted fires, respond to structural and vegetation fires and other emergencies including motor vehicle crashes, medical emergencies, hazardous substance related incidents, natural disasters and support increased community resilience.

Our vision is to build stronger communities and protect what matters most to the people within them. We are proud to be recognised as New Zealand’s most trusted public sector agency. Our values reflect what our people believe is core to who we are and the organisation we aspire to be:
We Do the Right Thing - Kia Tika

We Serve and Support - Manaakitanga

We Are Better Together - Whanaungatanga

We Strive to Improve - Auahatanga

**About the role**:
The Senior Network Engineer provides design, configuration and problem management in client environments of high complexity, managing resolution of incidents, problems and customer change requests ensuring service level agreements (SLAs)are met. This position also designs and creates technical solutions and manages project delivery, BAU and maintenance support, technical solutions, training, design provisioning and documentation.

**What you’ll bring to the role**:

- Significant experience in managing & configuring I,, switching, routing, firewalling and load balancing
- Strong technical experience in managing and supporting a distributed enterprise network consisting multiple technologies and services
- An excellent understanding of the operational requirements of a complex, multi-vendor, multi-faceted production environment
- Expert knowledge of the relevant key technologies installed at Fire and Emergency NZ including Cisco Networks and Juniper Firewall
- Strong appreciation of formal IT disciplines, methodologies and techniques including change management and service level management.
- Strong experience in management, configuration and upgrading of routers, switches and VPN gateways.
- Significant and demonstrated experience in advising and supporting people at all levels of large complex organisations
- Good experience influencing senior stakeholders both within and outside an organisation.
- Experience leading through influencing other stakeholders
- Promotes and models ethical behaviour.
- Experience in network concepts

**What is on Offer**:
If you’re looking for chance to put your diverse skill set to use in an organisation dedicated to helping our communities, then we’ll provide you with a unique opportunity to utilise your knowledge within a supportive team.
- Attractive remuneration package
- Hybrid working from home and office
- Our employee benefits include matched Kiwi Saver employer contributions of up to 6%
- Life and income protection insurance for eligible employees
- A wellness policy that allows for generous sick leave provisions so you can look after yourself.

**How to apply**: