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Our organisation: Ko mātou tēnei

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:

Reporting to the First Response Operations Team Lead, you’ll be a highly motivated and technically confident individual, with excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, as well as a strong desire for improvement and self-development.

As a L2 Support Engineer you’ll be accountable for maintaining a secure and highly available environment for our managed clients, services, and core infrastructure; working across a range of network infrastructure and security technologies.

Day to day you will:

·         Diagnose and Fix Incidents within Service Level agreement.

·         Liaise with Vendor for TAC Support and failed Hardware Replacement.

·         Create and Implement Network and Firewall changes as per business operations requirements.

·         Perform software upgrades and SSL certificate updates as part of proactive maintenance.

·         Develop and support procedures, processes, and code to increase the efficiency and operational capability.

What skills and experience you'll bring:

·         Relevant qualification in related field and certification – i.e. CCNP, NSE4 etc.

·         Demonstrable experience working within a related or similar role – i.e. Network Operations, Security Operations, Network Engineering.

·         Proficient in Check Point, Juniper, Fortinet Firewall and Cisco routing, switching and wireless technologies.

·         Excellent problem-solving and time management skills.

·         Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

·         Ability to work under pressure and outside business hours.

·         Empathy and tolerance toward clients and colleagues.

Other additional nice-to-have skills include experience in operating and maintaining Load Balancers and Proxies and familiar with CISCO ISE and DNA solution.

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 payments & 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).