Worker Type:

Permanent

Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through our promise "If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way."

We support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. There is the opportunity for growth, learning and career development. No two days are the same.

Are you a tech enthusiast with a knack for solving complex problems with a passion for coaching and mentoring? We’re looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to join our team.

Our focus goes beyond “Techies-for-Hire” – We are committed to building customer-driven infrastructure through modern product management practices. This role isn’t just about networks – It’s about cultivating growth, collaboration, and innovation within the team.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love being the go-to person for technical solutions, and enjoy developing others, we’d love to have you on board. Our vision is to the be the best technology shop in New Zealand – can you help us make this happen?

You will have the opportunity to progress your career, lead a project in Cisco ISE and lift the capabilities in the team. We offer amazing benefits including a generous leave allowance, flexible working, banking benefits, health insurance and we have a focus on wellbeing.

Mō te Tūranga | About the Role

This role can be based in Auckland or Wellington. It is a hybrid role with two days where you can work flexibly.

What are 5 day to day tasks the person in this role will complete?

• Collaborate with the various integration product teams develop and innovate new solutions into our ever-growing Integration product suite.
• Working with developers and infrastructure teams to help develop automation solutions for hardware deployment into integration platforms.
• Focus on CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous development) pipeline for Cisco ISE platforms.
• Security focused approach for application and integration platform to expose vulnerabilities beyond the business requirements.
• Contributing to a shared focus on continual improvement.
• Participating in agile ceremonies including stand up, retrospective, planning and demonstration. Undertaking collaborative related activities to assist the team to deliver on its commitments.

What is the team culture and environment like?

• Be part of a flat team structure - everyone's ideas are valued, and we listen and support each other.  
• Be part of our agile mindset, we work in dynamic mini squads that form around our consumer’s needs.
• Be able to take a high-stress environment with good humour, and not suffer in silence. We'll be your second family. 
• Have a broad skill base, with exposure to network protection, automation, and or familiar with end point hardware.

What technical skills are REQUIRED for this role?

• Experience in an enterprise environment as a Technical Specialist or Engineer
• Maturing Cisco ISE in the bank
• Automation experience using: Python, Bitbucket / Github, bash, Terraform, Ansible or others
• Domain: Cisco ISE, Checkpoint firewalls, Network capability with Cisco
• OS: Checkpoint Maestro and Primarily Windows, but some Linux
• Platforms: Virtual machines on premise and in cloud
• DevOps and CIDC experience
• Agile/SCRUM/KANBAN
• Thoughtful decision making based on teams’ strategic direction
• An Also advantageous is high levels of proficiency with ALGOSEC, Terraform, Ansible as well as banking of financial services experience.

What do we want you to know before you apply?

We are looking for someone with some, or lots of experience in mentoring, coaching, and training team members. The key is you must be passionate and keen to take others on the journey with you and foster a collaborative and growth-orientated environment.

In addition, the first questions we would ask you are:

• Do you have Cisco ISE experience?
• Do you have Firewall experience?

What attributes will this person display in order to be successful in this role?

To thrive as a Technical Specialist in our Network Protection Team, you will be passionate about high level networking concepts and how the different layers interact; and understand fundamental security controls.  You will also be able to actively participate in a team environment, demonstrate good communication skills and are excited to learn new network and cloud technologies so you can share your knowledge with other teammates.     

PLEASE NOTE: For internal reference, this role is Hay level 16.

Applications close at midnight, Wednesday 15 January 2025. The team will not be reviewing applications until after 13 January 2025.

Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand

This is an exciting opportunity to join us!  We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it. 

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.”

Closing Date: 15 January 2025