Our Purpose
Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in whilst embodying a culture of trust and respect for employees and customers alike.
The Nuts and Bolts
We are a New Zealand company who employ over 6500 people across our offices in NZ, Australia and Asia and we generate an annual revenue of over $1.48 billion, making us one of Australasia’s largest professional IT service companies. We have renowned expertise in operating data centres and in providing IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. With this comes a long list of significant and notable clients so to meet their needs, and in turn our employees’, we place great value in the hiring, developing and promotion of the very best available talent. Everyone’s unique contribution is recognised and lauded whilst training and development is specifically tailored to suit each individual’s needs!
Why You Want to Join Us – Our Team and Culture,Benefits, Career Growth and Flexibility
We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability. We’ve managed to maintain our local family feel whilst expanding globally, and in the regions we continue to grow and actively support local workforces and their families and are focused on facilitating an environment that encourages our employees to strive to imagine what’s possible, challenge the status quo and put forward fresh, diverse thinking. For our employees, this results in such fantastic perks as:
- SALARY - A competitive salary package with annual performance reviews with the goal of taking care of and retaining the best talent.
- BENEFITS – We have amazing benefits such as our Employee Assistance program 'DataCare', discounts at Bupa, SpecSavers, Samsung, Flight Centre, Snap Fitness and Working from Home purchases, we provide a new work phone with work phone plan included or you can port your current number if you like along with other great financial and Superannuation packages and access to online training portals to help you gain any industry certificates that you might want and we even cover the examination costs if you pass!
- DEVELOPMENT – Due to our strong focus and dedication towards employee development, we have the aforementioned in-house training plus our meticulous ‘career framework’, which helps plot a specific route to the next stages of your career.
- OPPORTUNITIES - Having a large scale, globally respected IT organisation on your resume will do wonders for your prospects, and with a 6500 strong workforce, there are many long-term opportunities to progress within. ‘Kick start your career’ is an often-used phrase but for a career in I.T., with regards to Datacom it really does apply!
- FLEXIBILITY - A supportive and flexible working environment in up-to-date modern workplaces with a 37.5 hour working week and scope for remote or hybrid working.
About the Role, and Why it is a GREAT Step for You!
Datacom operations are seeking an Operations Centre Engineer whose role is to monitor systems including Windows, UNIX, Database, Cloud and backups in real-time on a 24x7x365 rotational basis and able to troubleshoot/triage/resolve events or escalating to specialist’s teams for resolution. You will receive a standby allowance for when offshift and when called in to cover, all hours are considered overtime. There is a shift allowance of 12.5% on all working hours too so that standard pay is as uniform as possible, regardless of if you are day or night shift.
It is essentially just above an entry-level role, so don't let the title scare you off! We do still need people with IT experience - the role is perfect for those who have done service desk or desktop engineering work - but note that this is still an associate level position. It is seen as a transitionary role and a great stepping stone to get into higher level IT roles, as has happened with many of our staff since the teams' inception 4 years ago. After working in this role, you should be able to handle the business critical tasks and changes while you have time to focus on any certifications you are interested in. You can really showcase your skills ihere and be involved with the technologies that you want to be involved with, initially at a lower level but you can steadily increase your utilisation of other, higher technologies as you grow and develop.
What You Will Do
- Accepting, prioritising and managing Incidents and Requests.
- Real-time monitoring of all infrastructure for availability, capacity and performance monitoring and Reporting.
- Performing compliance activities/tasks e.g. Back-up & Health Checks.
- Proactivity identifying potential issues through our health check regime.
- Completion and monitoring of patching activities.
- Prompt detection, resolution, and escalation of incidents through MIM & Resolver Groups.
- Exposure to BCP/DR methodologies and planning.
- Creating & managing change requests and assigned tasks.
- Proactively working with the team & resolver groups on continuous process improvements.
- The role involves shift work, so you need to be able to work autonomously or part of small team.
- You need to be able to think on your feet as you will need to deal with a number of customers with changing needs.
This role requires Australian Citizenship and you must be able to obtain a minimum Baseline Security Clearance and is available across most of our AU offices except for WA due to the time difference being difficult to roster; Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide are all places we have a Datacom offices where you can work from! Note that the majority of the work will be from home though and you may be in the office as little as once per month!
About You
- Around (near or over) 2 Years IT experience.
- Able to produce accurate and concise technical & process documentation.
- Tertiary qualifications in Information technology, Computer Science or related discipline, working towards one or equivalent. work experience.
- Professional in appearance and manner.
- Clear communication skills.
- Great attention to detail.
- Good time management skills.
- Proven ability to follow and adhere to processes and procedures.
Skills Required:
Highly Regarded Experience
- MCSA/MCSE/MCITP Certification
- ITIL V3/4 certification
- Microsoft SCOM 2016,2019+
- Paessler PRTG
- ScienceLogic
- Microsoft Server 2012,2016, Azure
- Microsoft Exchange 2013, 2016+
- AWS
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft PowerShell
- Virtual Machines
- Backup Management (NetBackup, Commvault, Backup exec, Shadowprotect, Bocada etc.)
What are you waiting for! If you are ready to make a difference in Australasia's largest homegrown technology company then apply within today!
