Senior Digital Infrastructure Lead

Napier City Council; Napier; On-site; NZD 107,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (OCP)

Quarterly values awards + Birthday v"?

Social club

Free flu vaccinations (annual)

Ka Awatea Cultural Wānanga + NCC Kapa 

Te Reo Māori language classes

Job summary

Napier City Council in Napier, NZ, is seeking a Senior Digital Engineer to join the Digital Services team on a 2-year fixed-term contract. You will lead design and implementation of core IT infrastructure, provide technical leadership across networking, cloud, and security, and mentor other engineers to strengthen the council's digital environment.

The role focuses on delivering secure, reliable, and resilient services for the organisation and the Napier community, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering enterprise IT infrastructure solutions within complex environments.
• Strong expertise across infrastructure engineering, networking, cloud platforms or cybersecurity.
• The ability to analyse complex technical issues and develop practical, well‑considered solutions.
• Experience designing, implementing and supporting secure, resilient infrastructure.
• Confidence providing technical leadership, influencing decisions and guiding projects from concept through to delivery.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non‑technical teams.
• A collaborative approach, strong initiative and commitment to continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation and continual improvement of Council's core IT infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership across networking, cloud, platforms or security services.
• Strengthen the security, reliability and performance of Council's digital environment.
• Provide expert technical advice to projects, programmes and future technology planning.
• Mentor and support Digital Services team members, sharing knowledge and building capability.
• Work collaboratively across Council and with technology partners to deliver practical, customer-focused solutions.

Skills

infrastructure engineering

networking

cloud platforms

cybersecurity

technical leadership

Tools

Microsoft Infrastructure

VMware

Aruba

Fortinet

Job description

Napier City Council in Napier, NZ, is seeking a Senior Digital Engineer to join the Digital Services team on a 2-year fixed-term contract. You will lead design and implementation of core IT infrastructure, provide technical leadership across networking, cloud, and security, and mentor other engineers to strengthen the council's digital environment.

The role focuses on delivering secure, reliable, and resilient services for the organisation and the Napier community, with opportunities to