Design Engineer - Auckland - 62136 - Spark

General information

Location

Auckland

Expertise

Corporate Communications, Design, Governance & Security, Infrastructure, Networks, Technology

Job Level

Experienced

Employment Type

Permanent full-time

Close Date

15-Sep-2025

Ref #

62136

Description & Requirements

Spark NZ

As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Design Engineer to architect and implement enterprise-grade virtualised solutions for internal and external clients. This technical leadership role involves translating business requirements into scalable, resilient architectures by applying deep expertise in compute, storage, and data protection. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising high-performance infrastructure using VMware technologies, including vSphere, VCF, vSAN, and NSX.

Day to day you will be involved in:

Lead customer workshops to define technical requirements for compute, storage, and data protection.
Architect enterprise virtualisation solutions using the VMware stack (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter).
Develop technical proposals, architecture documents, and implementation roadmaps.
Perform capacity planning, sizing, and performance modeling for virtual environments.
Design and implement scalable VMware vSphere compute clusters (DRS, HA, vMotion).
Deploy VMware NSX for network virtualisation and micro-segmentation.
Design enterprise backup and recovery strategies using tools like Veeam or Commvault.
Architect and implement disaster recovery (DR) plans using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
Implement high-availability and fault-tolerant architectures with automated failover.

What experience you'll bring?

VMware: 5+ years of hands-on expertise with the VMware stack (vSphere, vSAN, NSX); knowledge of other hypervisors (Hyper-V, KVM) is a plus.
Compute: Proficient with enterprise server hardware (Dell, HPE, Cisco UCS) and performance optimization.
Storage: Skilled in storage solutions (SAN, NAS, SDS) and protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS)
Data Protection: Experience with DR planning and enterprise backup tools (Veeam, Commvault).

WHY CHOOSE US:

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture.  Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices.  We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.

Sustainability: Toitū

Sustainability is a key focus for us.  We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation.  The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

Benefits: Awhina

Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection.  Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.

Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.

Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.

Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.

Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.

Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).

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