Job Description
General information
Location
Auckland
Expertise
Consulting, Critical Environments, Data Automation, Design, Governance & Security, Infrastructure, Networks, Technology
Job Level
Experienced
Employment Type
Permanent full-time
Close Date
27-Feb-2026
Ref #
63300
Description & Requirements
Spark NZ
As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.
We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.
About the Network and Security Design role:
As an experienced designer you will be accountable for architecting, building, and documenting complex solutions, with a view to successfully handing these over to the operational teams for support.
The successful candidate must possess technical skills and experience across the following areas:
Create and maintain detailed design documents, diagrams, engineering specifications, configurations, technical implementation plans, trouble shooting and support guides, systems metrics, project planning and information for existing and emerging technologies.
Design reusable solutions to support predictable environments for support teams.
Demonstrate innovative thinking and translate this into business processes, solutions and working practice improvements.
Delivery:
Ensure build activities are completed as per engineering diagrams and in alignment with architecture, network and security standards as well as best practices.
Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support.
To advise as an expert on technical and operational processes to meet a customer’s business requirements.
Act as a key contributor in providing guidance to technical groups.
Maintain a reputation for quality and timely delivery of projects.
Leadership and Partnerships
Manage positive and effective relationships and work in partnership with leadership, Spark colleagues, vendors, and contractors.
Provide technical leadership in designing and implementing stable, secure and manageable solutions.
Mentoring of junior team members.
Project Support
Utilise performance data and historical metrics to effectively plan for growth, upgrades, migrations, optimisations and new implementations by identifying and resolving efficiency issues to improve services for our customers.
Constructive and positive collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams.
You will bring with you:
A positive attitude with an aptitude for continuous learning and a focus on personal growth.
Ability to develop, build and lead relationships at all levels of an organisation.
Team player, working closely with team members across Spark to deliver a premium outcome for our stakeholders and customers.
Effective Communication skills, both written and verbal.
Proven analytical ability and problem-solving skills.
Technical Skills
Relevant advanced Networking, including datacentre, Wireless and routing/switch Professional or Expert level qualifications from Cisco.
Additional certifications in the following would help you stand out – Fortinet, Aruba,
In depth knowledge and practical experience of current and emerging technologies.
Conversant in best practice appropriate to network and security design principles
Understanding of hardware and software performance and scaling limitations
Scripting skills advantageous.
Ability to balance the "big picture" and short-term implications of individual decisions.
Experience:
Extensive experience in a design environment gained in an ISP, Telco or large enterprise environment.
A minimum of 10 years in the Network or Security Infrastructure field, focussing on design and operations.
Experience with Networking and Security technologies with particular focus on the following vendors: Cisco, Fortinet, Checkpoint, F5, Aruba
A strong understanding of IT operations and project engineering.
An ability to effectively develop, build and lead relationships at all levels of an organisation.
Experience in the following areas would help you stand-out from the crowd;
Cisco
DNA Centre, ISE, Meraki, Viptela, ACI, Nexus Spine/Leaf
Fortinet
FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer
Broadcom
NSX-T
VeloCloud
F5 BIG-IP
ASM, LTM, GSLB, APM
Wireless
Aruba, Ruckus, Fortinet
SASE/SSE
Netskope, Zscaler, PA Prisma
Public Cloud Hyperscalers
AWS, Azure, GCP
WHY CHOOSE US:
Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai
At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.
Sustainability: Toitū
Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.
Benefits: Awhina
Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:
Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.
Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.
Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.
Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.
Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.
Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.
Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa.
To download the position description, please sign in with your account.
Location
Auckland
Expertise
Consulting, Critical Environments, Data Automation, Design, Governance & Security, Infrastructure, Networks, Technology
Job Level
Experienced
Employment Type
Permanent full-time
Close Date
27-Feb-2026
Ref #
63300
Description & Requirements
Spark NZ
As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.
We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.
About the Network and Security Design role:
As an experienced designer you will be accountable for architecting, building, and documenting complex solutions, with a view to successfully handing these over to the operational teams for support.
The successful candidate must possess technical skills and experience across the following areas:
Create and maintain detailed design documents, diagrams, engineering specifications, configurations, technical implementation plans, trouble shooting and support guides, systems metrics, project planning and information for existing and emerging technologies.
Design reusable solutions to support predictable environments for support teams.
Demonstrate innovative thinking and translate this into business processes, solutions and working practice improvements.
Delivery:
Ensure build activities are completed as per engineering diagrams and in alignment with architecture, network and security standards as well as best practices.
Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support.
To advise as an expert on technical and operational processes to meet a customer’s business requirements.
Act as a key contributor in providing guidance to technical groups.
Maintain a reputation for quality and timely delivery of projects.
Leadership and Partnerships
Manage positive and effective relationships and work in partnership with leadership, Spark colleagues, vendors, and contractors.
Provide technical leadership in designing and implementing stable, secure and manageable solutions.
Mentoring of junior team members.
Project Support
Utilise performance data and historical metrics to effectively plan for growth, upgrades, migrations, optimisations and new implementations by identifying and resolving efficiency issues to improve services for our customers.
Constructive and positive collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams.
You will bring with you:
A positive attitude with an aptitude for continuous learning and a focus on personal growth.
Ability to develop, build and lead relationships at all levels of an organisation.
Team player, working closely with team members across Spark to deliver a premium outcome for our stakeholders and customers.
Effective Communication skills, both written and verbal.
Proven analytical ability and problem-solving skills.
Technical Skills
Relevant advanced Networking, including datacentre, Wireless and routing/switch Professional or Expert level qualifications from Cisco.
Additional certifications in the following would help you stand out – Fortinet, Aruba,
In depth knowledge and practical experience of current and emerging technologies.
Conversant in best practice appropriate to network and security design principles
Understanding of hardware and software performance and scaling limitations
Scripting skills advantageous.
Ability to balance the "big picture" and short-term implications of individual decisions.
Experience:
Extensive experience in a design environment gained in an ISP, Telco or large enterprise environment.
A minimum of 10 years in the Network or Security Infrastructure field, focussing on design and operations.
Experience with Networking and Security technologies with particular focus on the following vendors: Cisco, Fortinet, Checkpoint, F5, Aruba
A strong understanding of IT operations and project engineering.
An ability to effectively develop, build and lead relationships at all levels of an organisation.
Experience in the following areas would help you stand-out from the crowd;
Cisco
DNA Centre, ISE, Meraki, Viptela, ACI, Nexus Spine/Leaf
Fortinet
FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer
Broadcom
NSX-T
VeloCloud
F5 BIG-IP
ASM, LTM, GSLB, APM
Wireless
Aruba, Ruckus, Fortinet
SASE/SSE
Netskope, Zscaler, PA Prisma
Public Cloud Hyperscalers
AWS, Azure, GCP
WHY CHOOSE US:
Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai
At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.
Sustainability: Toitū
Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.
Benefits: Awhina
Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:
Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.
Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.
Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.
Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.
Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.
Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.
Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa.
To download the position description, please sign in with your account.
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