Cisco Engineer

Up to $120,000 per annum
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12 Oct 2026

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.

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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.  


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Posted by
Simon Meehan
Senior Consultant
Having worked in various roles within the New Zealand Telco industry, Simon decided a change was needed and joined the Absolute IT team as a Consultant in 2021.
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