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Senior Infrastructure Design Engineer
- Posted07 October 2025
- SalaryCompetitive
- LocationAuckland
- Job type Permanent
- Specialisation Information & Communication Technology
- ReferenceBH-2572
Job description
Senior Infrastructure Design Engineer
Location: Auckland but will consider a resource based in Wellington / Christchurch
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Design Engineer to design and deliver enterprise-grade virtualised solutions for internal and external clients. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll translate business requirements into scalable, resilient infrastructure architectures.
You’ll bring deep expertise across compute, storage, virtualisation and data protection using VMware technologies such as vSphere, VCF, vSAN and NSX to create robust, high-performance environments.
What you’ll be doing
Apply now to join a forward-thinking team delivering infrastructure solutions.
Kia ora, Comspek and our clients fully support and encourage diverse hiring and inclusive recruitment processes. Don’t meet every single requirement of this job description? That’s ok - You do not need to tick every box or have expertise in the full JD. Comspek is dedicated to building diverse, inclusive and authentic workplaces based on different clients’ needs. So, if you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.
Location: Auckland but will consider a resource based in Wellington / Christchurch
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Design Engineer to design and deliver enterprise-grade virtualised solutions for internal and external clients. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll translate business requirements into scalable, resilient infrastructure architectures.
You’ll bring deep expertise across compute, storage, virtualisation and data protection using VMware technologies such as vSphere, VCF, vSAN and NSX to create robust, high-performance environments.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead customer workshops to define technical and business requirements.
- Architect enterprise virtualisation solutions using VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter).
- Develop technical proposals, architecture documentation, and implementation roadmaps.
- Conduct capacity planning, sizing, and performance modelling for virtual environments.
- Design and deploy scalable vSphere compute clusters with DRS, HA, and vMotion.
- Implement VMware NSX for network virtualisation and micro-segmentation.
- Design enterprise backup and recovery strategies using Veeam or Commvault.
- Architect and deliver disaster recovery (DR) solutions using VMware SRM.
- Ensure high availability and resilience through automated failover and fault-tolerant design.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with the VMware stack (vSphere, vSAN, NSX).
- Solid understanding of enterprise server hardware (Dell, HPE, Cisco UCS).
- Strong knowledge of storage solutions (SAN, NAS, SDS) and related protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS).
- Proven experience with data protection and DR using tools like Veeam or Commvault.
- Experience with other hypervisors (Hyper-V, KVM) is an advantage.
- Strong documentation, stakeholder engagement, and technical presentation skills.
Apply now to join a forward-thinking team delivering infrastructure solutions.
Kia ora, Comspek and our clients fully support and encourage diverse hiring and inclusive recruitment processes. Don’t meet every single requirement of this job description? That’s ok - You do not need to tick every box or have expertise in the full JD. Comspek is dedicated to building diverse, inclusive and authentic workplaces based on different clients’ needs. So, if you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.
