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About the Network and Security Design role:

As an experienced designer you will be accountable for architecting, building, and documenting complex solutions, with a view to successfully handing these over to the operational teams for support.

The successful candidate must possess technical skills and experience across the following areas:

• Create and maintain detailed design documents, diagrams, engineering specifications, configurations, technical implementation plans, trouble shooting and support guides, systems metrics, project planning and information for existing and emerging technologies.
• Design reusable solutions to support predictable environments for support teams.
• Demonstrate innovative thinking and translate this into business processes, solutions and working practice improvements.  

Delivery:

• Ensure build activities are completed as per engineering diagrams and in alignment with architecture, network and security standards as well as best practices.
• Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support.
• To advise as an expert on technical and operational processes to meet a customer’s business requirements.
•  Act as a key contributor in providing guidance to technical groups.
• Maintain a reputation for quality and timely delivery of projects.
• Leadership and Partnerships
• Manage positive and effective relationships and work in partnership with leadership, Spark colleagues, vendors, and contractors.
• Provide technical leadership in designing and implementing stable, secure and manageable solutions.
• Mentoring of junior team members.
• Project Support
• Utilise performance data and historical metrics to effectively plan for growth, upgrades, migrations, optimisations and new implementations by identifying and resolving efficiency issues to improve services for our customers.
• Constructive and positive collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams. 

You will bring with you:

• A positive attitude with an aptitude for continuous learning and a focus on personal growth.
• Ability to develop, build and lead relationships at all levels of an organisation.
• Team player, working closely with team members across Spark to deliver a premium outcome for our stakeholders and customers.
• Effective Communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proven analytical ability and problem-solving skills.
• Technical Skills
• Relevant advanced Networking, including datacentre, Wireless and routing/switch Professional or Expert level qualifications from Cisco.
• Additional certifications in the following would help you stand out – Fortinet, Aruba,
• In depth knowledge and practical experience of current and emerging technologies.
• Conversant in best practice appropriate to network and security design principles
• Understanding of hardware and software performance and scaling limitations
• Scripting skills advantageous.
• Ability to balance the "big picture" and short-term implications of individual decisions. 

Experience:

• Extensive experience in a design environment gained in an ISP, Telco or large enterprise environment.
• A minimum of 10 years in the Network or Security Infrastructure field, focussing on design and operations.
• Experience with Networking and Security technologies with particular focus on the following vendors: Cisco, Fortinet, Checkpoint, F5, Aruba
• A strong understanding of IT operations and project engineering.
• An ability to effectively develop, build and lead relationships at all levels of an organisation.
• Experience in the following areas would help you stand-out from the crowd;
• Cisco
• DNA Centre, ISE, Meraki, Viptela, ACI, Nexus Spine/Leaf
• Fortinet
• FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer
• Broadcom
• NSX-T
• VeloCloud
• F5 BIG-IP
• ASM, LTM, GSLB, APM
• Wireless
• Aruba, Ruckus, Fortinet         
• SASE/SSE
• Netskope, Zscaler, PA Prisma
• Public Cloud Hyperscalers
• AWS, Azure, GCP

• 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.