As a DDG Engineer you will join a team responsible for facilitating, supporting and protecting the effective use and availability of DDG systems, applications, interfaces and infrastructure. These systems are critical to enabling NZDF mission outcomes.

As one of the Engineers, you will be responsible for providing support for incidents, problems and changes. You will have key involvement in the development of new products and product enhancements as part of a DevOps team. You will work, from time to time, with other product teams to ensure that mutually beneficial goals are achieved.

A typical day will be varied as the technical environment.  This means your first challenge will be to get up to speed with the plethora of systems that we use, however, you'll work with a supportive team and manager who will ensure you get plenty of on the job training and development.

Please note this role is based at Devonport Naval Base.

Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and Experience

This could suit you if you are an intermediate level systems engineer with a good mix of applications and infrastructure experience.

You will be someone who takes pride in your methodical diagnostic and investigation techniques, ability to think out of the box and can do attitude.

You will be customer-focused and capable of building sound working relationships with vendors and stakeholders. 

In addition you will need knowledge and exposure to one or more of the following at an intermediate level:

• Virtualisation technologies (VMware platforms and tools, Citrix);
• Server Hardware (VxRail, HCI);
• Microsoft technologies (SharePoint, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange);
• Linux/Unix technologies; and
• Automated System Deployment (GitHub, Ansible, Nexus).

Experience:

• An IT related degree or certification;
• Worked in an IT environment;
• Experience with IT Security is advantageous;
• Relevant Microsoft certifications is advantageous;
• Experience working in an agile environment is advantageous; and
• Problem assessment and diagnostic techniques