Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer - Jobs in Newmarket

Job Description

About UsIf you love working with a diverse group of people who are all about putting the customer at the centre and enabling choice, you #39;ve found the right company. The energy sector is transforming at a rate of knots, and we want you to join us and be part of this transformation. Vector is listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange with Entrust, our majority shareholder. Vector operates a range of innovative businesses delivering energy and communication services to more than 600,000 homes and commercial customers across Aotearoa and the Pacific. These services include electricity and gas connections, solar solutions, high speed fibre, BBQ gas bottles, air and water purification and much more - all of which are transforming the energy sector in one way or another.Because we live in a world that is changing fast, we must continue to identify and develop better solutions that will provide value, choice and service for our customers throughout New Zealand and beyond, so the environment and communities we love continue to thrive. To do this, Vector has a vision of creating a new energy future, which will help to deliver clean, reliable and affordable energy solutions for customers.About the roleIn this role, you #39;ll be a key senior member of our cloud, platformamp; operations team which is responsible for all hosted infrastructure, and deployment operations in Amazon Web Services (AWS), building and operating the platforms we use to deliver reliable and scalable services to our business and other digital teams.You will be responsible to provide technical leadership in design, build, deployment and technical operations of our core infrastructure and systems, including working closely with internal and external resources, scheduling, risk management, system operations, communications, and status reporting.Who we are looking forYou #39;ll bring significant public cloud systems engineering and support experience, combined with solid IT infrastructure admin experience. You #39;re comfortable with automation, installation, administration, monitoring and maintenance of IT infrastructure technologies in a modern enterprise corporate environment. In addition, you #39;ll have

• A thorough understanding of server and OS administration - ideally both Windows and Linux
• Ability to script infrastructure automation and operations tasks
• AWS and the native AWS frameworks - CloudFormation, Systems Manager etc.
• Enterprise management tools such as; Commvault, New Relic, FinOps tools, and the like.
• Kubernetes and containerisation (a plus), but not essential
• VMware Cloud on AWS including HCX and NSX, you #39;re able to manage the deployment of subnets, virtual machines and firewall policy within the SDDC.

You also enjoy working in a high-performing team, using Agile methodologies, to achieve goals and milestones effectively, while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail. You have a strong career drive to build your technical skills and develop highly automated, self-service minimal operations products and services.What we can offer youWe love working together to create a new energy future. If you want to be part of an organisation with a real and tangible purpose, Vector could be the place for you.We offer:

• A fun, flexible and stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart and innovative people
• Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life
• Health and wellbeing support
• Great benefits that reflect the importance of family.

Vector engages a workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far:

• First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
• First Accessibility Tick employer
• Rainbow Tick accredited
• Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.

If you require assistance or accessibility support from us during the application and selection process, please do get in touch with us 099787804.