Senior Operations Engineer at Taranaki District Health Board (New Plymouth/Hawera), Taranaki

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Taranaki Base Hospital, New Plymouth

1.0 FTE (80 hours per fortnight)

Permanent Position

• Are you a Senior IT Operations Engineer?
• Do you want to spend less time commuting to and from work?
• Do you want to work in the most liveable city, for a population between 75,000-150,000 (as awarded by the International Awards for Liveable Communities)?
• Do you want to work with an employer who has a focus on work/life balance?

Taranaki boasts some of New Zealand’s most iconic natural landscapes like Mt Taranaki and many adventure activities. Taranaki is a place where you can ski and surf in the same day.  For a more relaxing experience, there are many walks (bush, coastal or mountain) as well as art trails, festivals and award-winning museums and galleries and a thriving café culture. Click here to read more information about Taranaki.

Te Whatu Ora Taranaki is a large organisation (2,400 staff) operating in the exciting, changing Health sector to a population of 116,600 people. To hear more about our culture view the video on our careers page. Te Whatu Ora Taranaki have an exciting opportunity in the ICT Services Infrastructure Team for a skilled Senior Operations Engineer.

The Senior Operations Engineer will be our first point of contact for all operations related matters in the Infrastructure space. Working with a group of knowledgeable and friendly Engineers, and a SQL DBA you will resolve BAU requests as they arrive or escalate to a subject matter expert. The primary focus will be with our on-premises solutions and infrastructure; however, we are currently developing cloud strategy, and the ideal candidate would have experience in both on-prem and off-prem infrastructure technologies.

There are exciting times ahead with several agreed programmes of work, including the development of significant technology refreshes alongside the commission of a large new hospital building. We will be looking improvements and efficiencies we could implement in the operational space.

From time-to-time, you may be required to work overtime however, this is generally kept to a minimum. The incumbent will be required to go on-call approximately once a month, which is recompensed separately to the salary for this role.

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For further information, please contact Keith Wallace on Email: keith.wallace@tdhb.org.nz

Applications close 11 August 2022.