Engineering Specialist

AiR; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Stellenbosch seeks an experienced IT professional to optimize and maintain its Private Cloud infrastructure. You will be instrumental in solving complex technical challenges, ensuring the stability of core business operations, and leading architectural discussions. This role offers a collaborative office environment with responsibilities in monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of systems.

Benefits

Opportunity to influence architectural decisions

Challenging infrastructure problems to solve

Crisis on-call availability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience relevant to private cloud architecture.
• Able to interact and lead architectural discussions.
• Strong ability in debugging and resolving complex technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize networked hardware and operating systems.
• Ensure high availability and manage clustering technologies.
• Document procedures and technical work instructions.

Skills

Private Cloud architecture and administration experience

Linux Certified System Administrator (RHCE)

Kubernetes

Shell Scripting

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)

Problem-solving skills

Job description

Role Overview

Help us maintain and optimize our Private Cloud infrastructure, ensuring the stability and efficiency of core business operations. You'll be key to identifying and resolving complex technical challenges.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of Private Cloud architecture and administration experience
• Linux Certified System Administrator (RHCE advantageous)
• Expertise in Kubernetes and Shell Scripting
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Ability to lead architectural discussions

What You'll Do

• Monitor, maintain, and optimize networked hardware and operating systems
• Debug and resolve challenging technical problems
• Ensure high availability and clustering technologies are operational
• Document procedures and technical work instructions

Why You'll Love It

• Solve critical infrastructure challenges for core business functions
• Opportunity to influence architectural decisions
• Office-based role with on-call availability for crisis situations