Senior Network Engineer

Started by a former school district network admin in 2019, the business has grown almost entirely through referrals. No call centre and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up. Tickets live in ConnectWise and everyone logs time to the quarter hour.

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Network Engineer in Wellington. This hire will lead our SD-WAN rollout and clean up years of inconsistent branch configs. Hands-on network role with Cisco, Palo Alto and Meraki gear. Some travel to branch offices is required. Remote, with occasional travel to Wellington (a few times a year).

Job duties

• Travel to remote sites for installs and hardware swaps.
• Deploy and support enterprise wireless (Cisco, Aruba, Juniper Mist)
• Run packet captures in Wireshark to diagnose latency and drops.
• Coordinate with carriers on circuit installs and outages.
• Upgrade firmware and IOS versions during maintenance windows.
• Design and troubleshoot routing with BGP, OSPF and EIGRP.

Who you are

• 7+ years of enterprise network engineering experience.
• CCNA required, CCNP preferred.
• Hands-on firewall administration experience.
• Comfortable on the CLI in Cisco IOS, NX-OS or Junos.
• Understanding of DNS, DHCP, QoS and load balancing.

Preferred qualifications

• Voice networks and QoS for VoIP.
• F5 BIG-IP load balancers.

What we offer

Compensation: $114,000-$134,000 per annum

• Annual bonus.
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year.
• KiwiSaver contributions.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Flexible hours.

Applications close when we find the right person.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wellington Technology Group.