Senior Network Consultant – Christchurch
With over 5,200 people, and annual revenues of over $1.2 billion, Datacom is one of Australasia's largest professional IT services companies. Datacom has extensive expertise in the operation of data centres, the provision of IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. Founded in 1965 and, operating across a number of regions, Datacom has a successful trading history of consistent growth and profitability from a track record of delivering innovative, cost effective digital and technology solutions. Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting diverse talent. Our people are the best in their fields - smart, passionate, and dedicated to providing exceptional IT services to our customers. This makes for a rewarding and fast-paced work environment.
The role:
We are the fastest growing team of network professionals in New Zealand and Australia. Due to strong customer demand and a growing portfolio of interesting projects, we are looking for experienced network consultants to join our Christchurch team.
Ideally you will be looking to continue your career with us and have a strong focus on personal development, be a self-starter and most importantly, fit with our “do the right thing” mantra. We work in a high trust, low management oversight structure so you will have the flexibility to do what you do best.
At Datacom we look after our people and provide an amazing benefit package including Medical for you and your family, income protection, and life/trauma insurance. We think you should be happy and healthy at work and so we provide fruit for the office daily. Our year is filled with different events, gatherings and numerous sporting opportunities for you to get involved in. Overall, we promote our core belief that our people are trusted as professionals and have the autonomy to get on and get the job done.
Day to day you will be…
- Collaborating across local and national teams engaging with both large and complex projects as well as rapid/agile projects that are smaller in scale.
- Leading the way with fresh thinking in the areas of automation, IoT, machine learning for managed networks, wireless and mobile networks across industry verticals, complex network design and architecture for hybrid and public cloud, new technology envisioning and customer focused delivery.
- Have an interest in and actively mentor the growing talent we have in our business.
- Help us to continually improve the systems, tools and processes we use to deliver our network management services.
- Will be a master at working with and managing expectations across multiple technology vendors, on behalf of our customers.
Key skills, include…
- Can talk with customers and communicate clearly with internal teams to ensure we do what we say we will.
- A relevant qualification in Networking ideally CCNP or similar
- Have proven experience and knowledge in work with firewalls, routing, switching and WI-FI
- We support many different sized organisations and so we will be looking for similar experience.
- You must be a good communicator as we expect you to talk to our customers. You will write technical changes and design proposals, so excellent comms both written and verbal are key
- Problem solving is at the core of what we do, so you will have examples of how you have successfully done this in the past.
- You’ll be part of our Network team and the wider Datacom team, we will be keen to hear how you have contributed to a team environment
These opportunities don’t come around very often so get your application in to us,or give Rachel Palmer a call on 021 613651.