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PwC South Africa; Pune District; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

PwC is seeking an IT Infrastructure Manager in India to oversee large-scale hybrid environments across on-prem and cloud platforms. You will drive reliability, automation, and IaC practices, collaborating with application, security, and infrastructure teams.

The role emphasizes DR planning, observability, and continuous service improvement while ensuring governance and regulatory compliance. A BE/B.Tech/MCA background is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MCA
• BE/B.Tech/MBA/MCA
• Years of experience required: BE/B.Tech/MCA

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Reliability & Operations: manage and maintain large-scale hybrid infra across on-prem and cloud
• Ensure high availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance of critical apps and infrastructure services
• Lead proactive monitoring, incident response, problem management, and infra health assessments
• Perform RCA for major incidents and implement preventive measures
• Drive service availability improvements through automation and operational excellence
• Cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity planning, testing, and governance

Skills

Infrastructure Management

Cloud Platforms

Automation & IaC

SRE & Reliability

Observability

VMware

Linux Administration

Python

Shell Scripting

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

BE/B.Tech/MCA

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

VMware vSphere

Azure Stack HCI

AWS

Job description

Line of Service Advisory Industry/Sector Not Applicable Specialism Operations Management Level Manager Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. As a business application consulting generalist at PwC, you will provide consulting services for a wide range of business applications. You will leverage a broad understanding of various software solutions to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency through analysis, implementation, training, and support.

Why PWC

At PwC, you will be part of a vibrant community of solvers that leads with trust and creates distinctive outcomes for our clients and communities. This purpose-led and values-driven work, powered by technology in an environment that drives innovation, will enable you to make a tangible impact in the real world. We reward your contributions, support your wellbeing, and offer inclusive benefits, flexibility programmes and mentorship that will help you thrive in work and life. Together, we grow, learn, care, collaborate, and create a future of infinite experiences for each other.

At PwC, we believe in providing equal employment opportunities, without any discrimination on the grounds of gender, ethnic background, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, religion or other beliefs, perceived differences and status protected by law. We strive to create an environment where each one of our people can bring their true selves and contribute to their personal growth and the firm’s growth. To enable this, we have zero tolerance for any discrimination and harassment based on the above considerations.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Reliability & Operations Manage and maintain large-scale hybrid infrastructure environments across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Ensure high availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance of critical business applications and infrastructure services.
• Lead proactive monitoring, incident response, problem management, and infrastructure health assessments.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents and implement preventative measures.
• Drive service availability improvements through automation and operational excellence initiatives.
• String understanding on Application Modernization , Replication, Failover Strategy Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Support and optimize Azure, AWS, Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI), and hybrid cloud environments.
• Participate in cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives.
• Design and implement resilient infrastructure architectures supporting business continuity requirements.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, security, and infrastructure teams during cloud adoption programs.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Lead DC/DR planning, execution, testing, and governance activities.
• Define and validate RPO/RTO objectives.
• Execute disaster recovery drills, failover testing, and recovery validation exercises.
• Ensure operational readiness for business continuity and infrastructure resiliency requirements.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Implement infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.
• Develop and maintain automation workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Automate routine operational activities, infrastructure deployments, compliance checks, and service restoration tasks.
• Support Infrastructure-as-Code standards, reusable templates, and automation governance.
• SRE & Reliability Engineering Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets.
• Establish reliability metrics and operational KPIs.
• Support reliability-focused architecture reviews and capacity planning activities.
• Drive continuous service improvement initiatives through data-driven operational insights.
• Observability & Monitoring Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability dashboards.
• Establish predictive monitoring and proactive issue detection capabilities.
• Analyze infrastructure and application telemetry to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Improve visibility using enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
• Platform & Virtualization Management Administer and optimize VMware infrastructure.
• Manage SAN/Storage platforms, storage performance, and capacity planning.
• Support backup and recovery solutions, ensuring recovery readiness and compliance requirements.
• Maintain secure, scalable, and governed infrastructure environments.
• Governance & Compliance Ensure adherence to enterprise governance, operational standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, and operational readiness reviews.
• Support audit requirements, infrastructure documentation, and change management processes.

Required Skills & Experience

• Infrastructure Technologies Linux Administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE)
• VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter
• SAN/Storage Administration
• Backup & Recovery Solutions
• Data Center Operations
• High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Integration and Middelware
• Cloud Platforms Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI
• Cloud Migration and Modernization
• Automation & IaC Terraform
• Ansible
• Infrastructure Automation
• Configuration Management
• Monitoring & Observability
• Monitoring Platforms
• Logging & Alerting Solutions
• Performance Management Dashboard Development
• Operational Analytics
• Scripting & Automation Python (Preferred)
• Shell Scripting (Bash)
• REST APIs & Automation Integrations
• Mandatory Skill sets: Skills highlighted with ‘‘ are preferred key skills Infrastructure Management Infrastructure Support On-Premise Infrastructure Application Hosting Linux on prem Monitoring Tools Middleware Preferred Skill sets:
• Education : Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MCA
• Primary Stack : On-Premise Infrastructure, Middleware, Database, Application Hosting, Load Balancing, DNS
• Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
• Department: IT & Information Security
• Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
• Role Category: IT Infrastructure Services
• Years of experience required: BE/B.Tech/MBA/MCA
• Education qualification: UG: B.Tech / B.E. in Any Specialization
• PG: M.Tech in Any Specialization, MS/M.Sc(Science) in Any Specialization, MBA/PGDM in Any Specialization, MCA in Any Specialization
• Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
• Degrees/Field of Study required: MBA (Master of Business Administration), Bachelor of Technology
• Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
• Required Skills SoC Integration Optional Skills Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, Analytical Reasoning, Analytical Thinking, Application Software, Business Data Analytics, Business Management, Business Technology, Business Transformation, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Creativity, Digital Tooling, Documentation Development, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Implementation Research, Implementation Support, Implementing Technology, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity {+ 24 more}
• Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
• Travel Requirements
• Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
• Government Clearance Required?
• Job Posting End Date June 22, 2026