Hybrid Senior Infrastructure Architect: Security & Cloud

Placements24; Mossel Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Provident fund

Hybrid work model

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, and manage the company's IT backbone. You will define architectures for servers, networks, storage, cloud services, and security to support current operations and future growth.

The role offers a hybrid work setup, collaboration with IT operations, and leadership across infrastructure upgrades, disaster recovery, and vendor relations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field.
• 8+ years of IT infrastructure design, implementation and management.
• Proven experience as Infrastructure Architect or similar senior role.
• Strong knowledge of servers, networking, storage, virtualization, cloud, and security.
• Hybrid work experience and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, highly available IT infrastructure solutions.
• Define standards for servers, networks, storage, and cloud environments.
• Evaluate new technologies to enhance infrastructure capabilities.
• Maintain architecture documentation across environments.
• Collaborate with IT operations for implementation and ongoing management.
• Plan and execute upgrades and migrations.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and regulations.
• Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Provide technical leadership on infrastructure projects.
• Analyze performance and implement optimization strategies.
• Manage vendor relationships and troubleshoot complex issues.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Cloud architecture

Cybersecurity

Automation scripting

Vendor management

Communication

Problem solving

Hybrid collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

AWS

Azure

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Placements24 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, and manage the company's IT backbone. You will define architectures for servers, networks, storage, cloud services, and security to support current operations and future growth.

The role offers a hybrid work setup, collaboration with IT operations, and leadership across infrastructure upgrades, disaster recovery, and vendor relations.