Systems Engineer Kaipuhanga Punaha

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Systems Engineer Kaipuhanga Punaha

Play a key part in building and improving information/data services and processes that help us ensure New Zealanders have quality data and statistics.

Deliver technical systems engineering practices which support the organisation's objectives
Provide consultancy services to business and projects in a multisystem environment
Permanent role working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
About Us Ko m tou

Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa is a Central Government employer of 1200+ people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, M ori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

What's in it for you? Ng hua ka riro ki a koe

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about the Way We Work at Stats NZ and also check out our benefits. We want working for us to work for you!!

Starting salary: $92,004 - $97,876 + superannuation

Other benefits of joining Stats NZ include:

Flu Vaccines, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Eye Tests and corporate rates for a variety of services and products
Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs
The role Te tunga

We are looking for an intermediate Systems Engineer. The position is located within the Analytics service line of Technology Services, working with other systems engineers and analyst developers, and alongside our ICT Business Analyst, Service Assurance Consultant, Service Portfolio Manager, Solution Architects, and business users. The successful applicant shall work collaboratively with systems engineers from other service lines to design, develop, and deploy, new capabilities via user stories and acceptance criteria, while ensuring the data integrity of our systems. The role is a mixture of provisioning L4 support and project work, providing maintenance across supported products.


Applicants need to have knowledge at an Enterprise scale of the following:

Complex distributed systems
SAFe Agile principles and practices
IT operations, in an Always-Up, Always-Available service environment
Infrastructure as Code application/service deployments, for Cloud and On-Premises
Load balancing, networking, and routing
Patch management (automated and manual) along with other security mechanisms
What you bring Nou te rourou

As a member of a Technology Delivery team, which typically comprises eight members, reporting to a Technology Delivery Manager, you would:

Monitor, manage and maintain installed systems, data bases and infrastructure to ensure the achievement of the availability and performance requirements.
Install, configure and test systems, databases and infrastructure including management toolsets
Monitor solution performance against organisational need to identify trends or improvement opportunities, identifying solutions and working with your team to implement.
Contribute to the management of organisation risk by implementing best practises for system security, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
Provide operational support and ongoing business optimisation, such as costs and capacity planning of solutions already in production.
Perform routine systems, databases and software audits, identifying risk and opportunities.
Exhibit effective management of change, incidents, service requests and other work items, to deliver successful outcomes
Demonstrate an ability for establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships, communicating clearly with a diverse audience
Have at least one year experience in a Systems Engineer position, working in a corporate Enterprise environment
Commit to developing your technical competencies and organisational knowledge
Successful candidates shall thrive in an environment of high performing peers solving problems on-the-fly, and will have some demonstratable expertise with the following:

Microsoft Windows (administrating multiple versions)
Microsoft IIS web server
Microsoft SQL Server, or similar
Managing databases using SQL
Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
Bash, Microsoft PowerShell, or similar
Expertise with any of the following would be advantageous, but not essential:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu Linux
NGINX web server
Terraform
Databricks
Containerisation technology
Certification and accreditation (C&A)
We understand transferable skills can come from experience gained from outside of work. We encourage you to be you in your application.

We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.

Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, what attracted you to this role, and what you would bring to Stats NZ.

How to apply Me pehea te tuku tono

If this sounds like you, click on the Apply now button to be redirected to the application page on our careers site. The position description is located on the right-hand side of the page.

We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview. You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process.

Please reach out to recruitment@stats.govt.nz if you have any questions.

For those aware of the SFIA framework, the expected skills and skill levels for this role (SFIA version 7) are included in the Position Description.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.