PartsTrader Markets Limited Looking for Modern Workplace Engineer at Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand Full Time

PartsTrader is a Wellington tech success story that’s in expansion mode, with an already well-established US and NZ customer base that trades over $2 billion annually in automotive parts. PartsTrader is an easy-to-use online marketplace, and we provide automotive repairers with a single platform for the procurement of vehicle parts. We’re also super proud of the journey we are going on and proud of winning the Technology Award at the 2022 Wellington Gold Awards.

Position Overview

The key purpose of the Modern Workplace Engineer role is to build, maintain and secure in office, remote and cloud-based equipment and systems used by PartsTrader employees. You will be responsible for ensuring the IT equipment and systems required by all employees to perform their duties are well maintained, available, secure, and fit for purpose. Additionally, you will also be responsible for ongoing enhancement of equipment and systems, aiming to improve our team members’ work productivity irrespective of their working location.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure workplace equipment and systems are maintained, stable and secure.
• You will be responsible for purchasing related equipment and software.
• Software maintenance, security patching and upgrades are performed regularly and a treated as a top priority.
• Implement applicable equipment and system enhancements.
• Automate repeated manual tasks.
• Provide technical support to our people, troubleshooting issues and ensure that employees have the necessary tools and resources to perform their tasks.
• Promote, encourage, and train our people to enable them to self-serve.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies and industry best practices to continually improve our workplace environment.
• Build and implement a roadmap for Modern IT in PartsTrader.
• Work collaboratively with team members.

Skills And Experience

• Strong technical background with general understanding of IT technologies
• A champion of automation and the reduction of manual tasks
• A senior level of experience in Automation (PowerShell, Python, or any other scripting/automation language)
• Experienced in Systems Administration (Windows Server, Linux, SCCM)
• Experienced in implementing and maintaining sustainable access controls (RBAC)
• Experienced in Networking & Routing (Switches, Firewalls, Wireless Access Points, NAC, DNS, Proxies, Client VPN)
• Experienced in Modern Workplace tools (Azure AD, InTune, Teams, Slack, Group Policy, SSO, Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection/Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, GitHub
• Understanding of ITIL and Agile practices
• Desirable – Experienced working for software development company.
• Desirable – Experienced taking part in ISO27001 audits.
• Desirable – Experienced operating in a public cloud infrastructure.
• Desirable – Experienced in modern operational practice such as GitOps/ChatOps

Here’s what we can offer:

PartsTrader offers a variety of benefits to its employees, including a welcoming and inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and different life experiences. We encourage our employees to come together and celebrate their accomplishments with events such as team-catered lunches every Thursday, company-wide updates on Friday afternoons accompanied by snacks and drinks of their choice, social club events, and company celebrations.

We also provide our employees with generous compensation packages, including a Long Term Incentive Plan which becomes available after three years of service, enabling eligible participants to benefit from the company’s financial success in the long run. In addition, we offer a 3% KiwiSaver contribution on top of base pay.

To encourage our employees to continually improve and strive for excellence, we allocate time and budget for training and development opportunities.

We also prioritise the health and well-being of our employees, providing resources such as access to EAP, discounts at local gyms, fresh fruit, flu vaccinations, and social sports teams and activities.

For this role, we are only considering applicants who are eligible for employment in New Zealand.