Senior Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Architect

New Zealand Government

Auckland

Hybrid

NZD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

The University of Waikato Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a Senior Digital Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and continually improve enterprise infrastructure across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. You will work across server, virtualization, storage, backup and identity, ensuring security, resilience and alignment with strategic needs.

You will provide technical leadership, contribute to architecture decisions, automation initiatives and service

Qualifications

  • Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments.
  • Strong Linux and Windows Server administration.
  • Experience with virtualization (Nutanix preferred).
  • Azure, Microsoft 365 and Entra ID experience.
  • Security, patching, and hardening expertise.
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, maintain and improve core infrastructure platforms.
  • Support on-premises and hybrid cloud services across server, virtualization, storage, backup and identity.
  • Provide senior technical leadership and mentoring.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions, automation initiatives and service improvements.
  • Participate in an on-call roster approximately eight times per year.

Skills

Linux server administration
Windows Server administration
Virtualization (Nutanix)
Azure
Microsoft Entra ID
Backup and recovery
Security hardening
Automation
Infrastructure lifecycle management
Technical leadership
Communication
Mentoring

Education

Tertiary qualification in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AOS
Prism Central
HPE management tools
Cohesity
Qumulo
Terraform
Ansible

Job description

The University of Waikato Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a Senior Digital Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and continually improve enterprise infrastructure across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. You will work across server, virtualization, storage, backup and identity, ensuring security, resilience and alignment with strategic needs.

You will provide technical leadership, contribute to architecture decisions, automation initiatives and service

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