Cloud Operations Specialist
New Plymouth
Are you passionate about establishing excellent relationships with vendors and suppliers and do you enjoy challenge, variety, problem-solving and autonomy in your work?
This might be the next career step for you…….
About the role:
- The Cloud Operations Specialist provides technical skills to support Powerco’s users and field service providers.
- In this role you will deliver and support Public and Private Clouds, Collaboration and Productivity tools, and shared Infrastructure platforms. You will be the escalation for our Service Desk and provide third level support for both Incident and Service Request resolution. Continuous improvement and automation are essential to free up time for more value add.
- As a Cloud Specialist you will also ensure colleagues are trained or coached as required as well as staying abreast of new technologies that can be used to improve our environment.
The team you will be part of:
- This role is part of our Operations Team and wider Business Transformation Department. We are purpose-driven and a place where development, growth and collaboration are valued. Our people are trusted to make good decisions that result in positive impact and delivery of results.
What we offer you:
- Loads of flexibility – we embrace hybrid working so if you’d like to work a few days a week from home (or the beach) – that’s fine by us.
- All the usual stuff, but way better – 4% Kiwi Saver, ability to buy extra leave, paid volunteer days, free fruit in the office, amazing Parental Leave entitlements, free Life and Medical Insurance – I know right!?
- As much development as you can handle!
- Working with an amazing, supportive, and fun team - even if we do say so ourselves…
What you will bring to the role:
- Experience in working as part of a support team that maintains an organisations IT infrastructure, ideally with cloud hosted systems.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of Cloud platforms, in particular AWS.
- Knowledge of deploying Infrastructure as Code, using systems such as Ansible or Terraform.
- Extensive ability to support Microsoft Operating Systems and Azure products.
- Having a track record of continuous improvement.
- An understanding of maintaining monitoring platforms such as Datadog is an advantage.
Applications close: Friday 14 April 2023
Our ability to get the best out of people is what sets Powerco apart. We realise that candidates – especially from underrepresented and neurodiverse backgrounds – often won’t apply for roles unless they meet ALL the criteria. We encourage anyone who shares our passion for connecting communities to apply for any role that aligns to your strengths and interests. We will provide a safe space where you can bring your whole self to work and thrive.
If you would benefit from support or adjustments in order to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please phone 0800 769372 or email kiaora@powerco.co.nz