Infrastructure & Cloud Manager

Zohorecruit; Bellville; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking an experienced Cloud & Infrastructure Manager in Bellville, SA. You will lead hands-on cloud design, implement and support AWS and/or Azure environments in a hybrid setup, ensuring high availability for manufacturing and distribution operations.

Lead technical teams, manage vendors, and drive cost optimisation while maintaining security and DR capabilities for critical business processes.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years' experience in infrastructure and/or cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Proven setup, implementation and maintenance of cloud/infrastructure environments.
• Experience in manufacturing/production/warehouse/distribution environments is desirable.
• Experience supporting business-critical operational systems with high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
• Manage hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Ensure highly available, reliable and scalable infrastructure.
• Maintain systems supporting manufacturing and distribution operations.
• Collaborate with business and operational teams to enable critical processes.
• Monitor infrastructure, cloud platforms, networks and performance; plan capacity.
• Implement monitoring, alerting and performance management.
• Oversee upgrades, migrations and technology improvements.
• Ensure backup, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.
• Apply security, patching and hardening across environments.
• Manage cloud costs and optimise resource utilisation.
• Work with vendors and service providers; drive root-cause resolution.
• Provide guidance to infrastructure teams and contribute to roadmaps.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Hybrid cloud

Infrastructure design

Monitoring & performance

Security & hardening

Disaster recovery

Cost optimisation

Vendor management

IT service management

Education

Degree/Diploma in IT/CS

AWS/Azure certifications (advantageous)

ITIL V4 Foundation advantageous

Other relevant certifications (COBIT/FinOps/NIST/CIS)

Job description

Bellville, South Africa | Posted on 02/10/2026

We are lookingfor an experienced Cloud & Infrastructure Manager who combines stronghands-on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure experience with a solid understanding of ITinfrastructure and operational environments.

The idealcandidate will have experience designing, implementing, maintaining andsupporting cloud and infrastructure systems within a manufacturing, production,warehouse or distribution-centre environment. This is not a purelymanagement-focused role, the successful candidate must understand thetechnology at an operational level and be comfortable working with technicalteams, vendors and business stakeholders.

The role will beresponsible for ensuring that cloud and infrastructure environments are reliable,secure, scalable, cost-effective and fit for a high-availability operationalenvironment.

KeyResponsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain AWSand/or Azure cloud environments.
• Manage and support hybridenvironments incorporating cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Ensure infrastructure and cloudplatforms are highly available, reliable and scalable.
• Maintain systems supporting manufacturing,production, warehouse or distribution-centre operations.
• Work closely with operational andbusiness teams to ensure technology supports critical business processes.
• Monitor infrastructure, cloudplatforms, networks and systems and proactively identify potential issues.
• Implement monitoring, alerting,performance management and capacity planning.
• Manage infrastructure upgrades,migrations, implementations and technology improvements.
• Ensure appropriate backup, disasterrecovery and business continuity capabilities are in place and regularlytested.
• Apply security, patching,vulnerability management and configuration-hardening practices acrossinfrastructure and cloud environments.
• Manage cloud costs and identifyopportunities for cost optimisation, rightsizing and improved resourceutilisation.
• Work with technology vendors, serviceproviders and cloud providers.
• Investigate recurring infrastructureissues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Support incident management andparticipate in major incident resolution when required.
• Develop and maintain infrastructurestandards, documentation and operational procedures.
• Ensure infrastructure changes areproperly planned, implemented and controlled.
• Provide technical guidance andleadership to infrastructure and technical teams.
• Contribute to technology strategy,infrastructure roadmaps and continuous improvement initiatives.

ImportantCandidate Profile

The idealcandidate is not simply an Infrastructure Manager who oversees a team.

We arespecifically looking for someone who has strong AWS and/or Azure experience andhas personally been involved in setting up, implementing, maintaining andsupporting these environments. Experience in a manufacturing,production, warehouse or distribution-centre environment is particularlyimportant, as the infrastructure must support operationally critical systemswhere uptime, reliability, connectivity and rapid issue resolution areessential.

Candidates comingpurely from traditional infrastructure management, with limited practical cloudexperience, would not be suitable.

Requirements

• 7–10 years' experience ininfrastructure and/or cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWSand/or Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience setting up,implementing and maintaining cloud and infrastructure environments, ratherthan only managing them at a high level.
• Experience working in a manufacturing,production, warehouse, logistics or distribution-centre environment ishighly desirable and will be a key consideration.
• Experience supportingbusiness-critical operational systems in environments where availabilityand reliability are essential.
• Strong understanding of hybridinfrastructure — cloud and on-premises.
• Experience with infrastructuremonitoring, performance optimisation and capacity planning.
• Experience with security,vulnerability management, patching and infrastructure hardening.
• Experience with disaster recovery andbusiness continuity.
• Experience managing cloud costs andimplementing cost-optimisation initiatives.
• At least 3–5 years' leadership orpeople-management experience.
• Strong vendor and third-partyservice-provider management experience.
• Experience working with ITservice-management processes and frameworks.

TechnicalKnowledge

Strong knowledgein several of the following areas:

• AWS
• Cloud infrastructure architecture
• Hybrid cloud environments
• Networking and connectivity
• Windows / server infrastructure
• Storage and data management
• Monitoring and alerting
• Backup and disaster recovery
• Cybersecurity and infrastructurehardening
• Identity and access management
• ITIL / IT service management
• Business continuity

Qualifications

• Grade 12 / National SeniorCertificate
• Degree or Diploma in InformationTechnology, Computer Science or a related field preferred.
• Relevant AWS or Azure certificationsadvantageous, including:
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate /Professional
• Designing Microsoft AzureInfrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)
• ITIL V4 Foundation advantageous.
• COBIT, FinOps, NIST/CIS orrelated certifications advantageous.