Cisco Engineer

Job Description

What's on Offer

Hands-on technical role supporting a large-scale, multi-vendor enterprise network environment

Work on complex networking challenges spanning datacentres, campus networks, and remote sites

Comprehensive range of benefits including fully funded life cover, critical illness protection and 4% Kiwisaver

About the Role

Our client is seeking an experienced Cisco Engineer to join a high-performing infrastructure team responsible for supporting a complex, geographically distributed network environment.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role where you'll design, build, support, and optimise critical network services while helping provide technical leadership across the wider team. You'll be responsible for maintaining network resilience, driving rapid fault resolution, and contributing to the ongoing evolution of enterprise network capabilities.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise across Cisco technologies, large-scale networking environments, routing, VPNs, and network security, alongside a passion for mentoring others and improving operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and support enterprise network infrastructure across LAN, WAN, datacentre, and remote environments

Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex network, routing, and connectivity issues

Manage and optimise large-scale IPSec VPN solutions

Support datacentre switching and network fabric infrastructure

Collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and external stakeholders to deliver network services and upgrades

Contribute to network architecture, technology refresh initiatives, and continuous improvement

Support network automation and configuration management practices

Mentor and provide technical leadership to a team of engineers

Participate in an on-call roster following onboarding

About You

Essential Experience

Cisco CCNA and/or CCNP Certifications PLUS, extensive experience supporting large-scale enterprise network environments

Advanced Cisco networking experience across routing and switching

Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF, and enterprise routing technologies

Proven experience designing and supporting IPSec VPNs at scale

Strong troubleshooting skills across complex and distributed network environments

Experience working in multi-vendor environments

Hands-on experience with network monitoring, diagnostics, and incident resolution

Highly Desirable

Juniper networking experience

Palo Alto firewall administration experience

Azure networking experience

Red Hat/Linux administration experience

Network automation experience using Ansible, Git, or similar tools

Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers

Understanding of IP telephony and voice networking

What We're Looking For

You'll be a Cisco engineer with deep technical expertise. You enjoy solving complex networking challenges, working collaboratively across teams, and helping shape the future direction of enterprise infrastructure services.

Apply Now

If you're an experienced Cisco Engineer with a background supporting large-scale enterprise environments, we'd love to hear from you. Reference number: 145824

Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.

You will need a full clean Class 1 drivers licence.

Please note:

As this role requires a high level of security clearance, you will need to be / have been a NZ, UK, Australian, Canadian or USA citizen for a minimum of 15 years to be eligible for this role.

You will also be required to undergo a psychological assessment as part of the pre-employment security vetting process.