About InternetNZ
InternetNZ is the home and guardian of .nz, providing the infrastructure, security and support to keep it humming. We help New Zealanders harness the power of the Internet through our community grants, research and policy. We are champions for an Internet that is accessible, open, and secure for all New Zealanders. On offer is an exciting opportunity to be part of a thriving team where team culture is very important to us. As well as our friendly and fun culture, we offer many benefits at InternetNZ. We're a family-friendly, equal opportunity employer that promotes a flexible and safe workplace.
Funding Panel
InternetNZ is seeking to appoint a new Funding Panel to support our decisions on where to invest our community funding.
Reviewing applications is an important task in grant making, and we want to work with the wider community to bring insights and analysis that will allow us to make great decisions for our community funding programme.
Who should apply?
Anyone that has experience and/or in-depth knowledge in one or more of:
- Internet research
- project evaluation
- technical experience
- Te Ao Māori, and/or community connections
- delivering impactful community projects and outcomes
- philanthropic funding experience and expertise.
And those who hold the following personal attributes:
- ethics
- independence
- team player
- commitment
- focus on impact
- stewardship orientation.
The panel seeks to have a balance between panel members who have understanding and experience of the Internet community and funding, and panel members with a new and fresh perspective. The panel must be passionate about the future of the Internet. The Terms of Reference for the Funding Panel is here.
We are expecting to appoint the panel in late January 2020 and membership is expected to last for up to 12 months. During this time, the panel will participate in at least two funding rounds.
There will be up to four half-day meetings in Wellington for the panel - in February 2020 and in August 2020. Each meeting will require up to one day of preparation time. Fees for panel members will be paid a daily fee of $394 (GST inclusive) per working day. Also, actual and reasonable costs of expenses incurred for panel related travel will be reimbursed.
To apply, send your CV and cover letter to funding@internetnz.net.nz by Wednesday 08 January 2020, 4pm. Cover letters should outline:
- what skills you would bring to the panel
- any previous funding experience, especially in the area of digital divides
- note any previous experience or relationship with InternetNZ.
Applications received between 21 Dec - 05 January will be acknowledged when InternetNZ re-opens on 06 January.
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IT Systems Coordinator
What you will do
As a member of our IT Operations team, you will work closely with our teams providing essential coordination of the internal IT requirements.
Responsible for ensuring the maintenance of internal IT and customer facing systems, this role will oversee the efficient running of the technology landscape. The IT Systems Coordinator will require a high degree of stakeholder management and the ability to juggle a range of internal and external relationships. Combined with the ability to analyse the organisational IT systems needs, you will diagnose and resolve technical issues. By working closely with our external service provider, the successful candidate will ensure the provision of desktop and server support and a range of setting up and maintaining of technical support to the organisation.
Using your proven initiative and desire to meet customer needs, you will be an essential part of the InternetNZ Group.
What we are looking for
You will have a great work ethic, communicate well and enjoy working with people to achieve shared goals. We are also looking for an individual who has an in-depth understanding of standards for IT service management. As well as this, you will have experience delivering an effective IT service to a small / medium organisation. Experience of G Suite and a good understanding of emerging technology and trends impact IT operations are both essential.
As well as these skills you are also looking for experience in the following:
- Supporting server, storage, network, security, virtualisation and wireless technologies
- Managing Windows, OSX, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy and Mobile Device Management (iOS, Android)
- Supporting Office 365, Exchange Online, and Azure AD technologies
What can we offer you?
Along with a great team environment, we have a range of benefits to offer including:
- Life and critical illness insurance
- Paid home internet connection and cellphone contract
- Additional Kiwisaver contributions
- 4.5 weeks annual leave
- 10 days sick leave
- Long service leave
- A strong commitment to training and development.
If you are interested in this vacancy send your CV and covering letter to recruitment@internetnz.net.nz. In your covering letter please outline how your experience matches what we are looking for.
Close Date: 16 December 2019
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DNS Specialist
About InternetNZ
InternetNZ is the home and guardian of .nz, providing the infrastructure, security and support to keep it humming. We help New Zealanders harness the power of the Internet through our community grants, research and policy. We are champions for an Internet that is accessible, open, and secure for all NewZealanders. On offer is an exciting opportunity to be part of a thriving team where team culture is very important to us. As well as our friendly and fun culture, we offer many benefits at InternetNZ. We're a family-friendly, equal opportunity employer that promotes a flexible and safe workplace.
What you will do
You will be a member of a six-person team responsible for maintaining and evolving the operational infrastructure for the .nz ccTLD. You will work closely with our research and policy team as well as software developers to advance our DNS platform and implement the bedrock of the New Zealand Internet space.
Our organisation has the responsibility of providing a core service for New Zealand to the entire world and accordingly you will be granted autonomy to see the service done well. We heavily invest in infrastructure that is reliable, secure and manageable. You will automate operations extensively for the sake of security, compliance, and resilience. Our focus on automation means that you will have some software engineering skills and be able to drive a project to accomplish these goals.
The DNS platform is comprised of name server software, switching, anycast, and HSMs deployed in avariety of data centres across New Zealand. DNSSEC, using the OpenDNSSEC signer software, hasbeen fully deployed for all our zones. You will engage with third-party providers regarding the delivery of.nz nationally and overseas.
We have been extensively involved in the development of DNSSEC standards and tools and the signingof the root nameservers. Our preference is to use open source software and to contribute back to the open source community.
What we are looking for
Effective engineers know how to properly prioritise, have a great work ethic and communicate well. Wewill be looking for those skills in candidates.
As well as these skills you will need:
- a working familiarity with large scale name server infrastructure and
- knowledge of DNS, DNSSEC, routing protocols including BGP
- a team-first attitude, automation, tests and documentation critical to a functional team
- we provide 24 hour on-call support and so a willingness to be on-call and to provide support to the on-call team for escalated issues is essential for this position. The on-call time is split between theteam of six people.
Skills you'll need to develop
We like Python, but we're open to change. Ansible is used for all system management, with each infrastructure role being testable. Testing this infrastructure is a key ongoing skill.
You'll need to gain domain specific knowledge regarding the .nz registry software, but given the custom-nature of that we don't expect that coming in to the role.
What can we offer you?
Along with a great team environment, we have a range of benefits to offer including:
- life and critical illness insurance
- paid home internet connection and cellphone contract
- support for engaging the wider DNS community, attending and presenting at conferences
- additional Kiwisaver contributions
- 4.5 weeks annual leave
- 10 days sick leave
- Long Service Leave
- a strong commitment to training and development.
If applying from offshore a relocation package may be available
If you are interested in this vacancy send your CV and covering letter to recruitment@internetnz.net.nz. In your covering letter please outline how your experience matches what we are looking for.
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