Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid Cloud & VMware Specialist

OryxAlign; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

OryxAlign is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to maintain and enhance critical IT services across client environments in Bellville, Cape Town. The role emphasizes Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization, and cloud workloads with opportunity to automate using PowerShell.

You will join a collaborative team and work on 2nd/3rd line support, migrations, and DR planning while contributing to robust security, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as Infrastructure Engineer or similar role.
• Strong Windows Server and Active Directory administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with VMware or Hyper-V production environments.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage, backup and recovery concepts.
• Experience with migrations, server refreshes, platform upgrades or cloud projects.
• Ability to troubleshoot across compute, OS, virtualization, storage and network layers.
• Experience with PowerShell for administration or automation.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including documenting changes and risks.
• Ability to work with regional teams and remote stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide 2nd and 3rd-line escalation support for incidents, problems and service requests.
• Administer, maintain and troubleshoot Windows Server, Active Directory and Entra.
• Support VMware and/or Hyper-V environments, including host, cluster and VM lifecycle.
• Maintain on-premises and cloud-hosted server workloads with monitoring, patching, backups and security controls.
• Support backup, recovery and disaster recovery services.
• Participate in migrations, platform upgrades, data-centre changes, cloud adoption and infrastructure transformation projects.
• Use PowerShell and other tools to automate repeatable tasks and improve consistency.
• Produce technical documentation, implementation plans, support procedures and runbooks.
• Work with regional teams, service providers and vendors to diagnose issues and deliver outcomes.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

PowerShell

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Azure

Education

Matric / Grade 12

IT-related diploma/degree

Job description

OryxAlign is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to maintain and enhance critical IT services across client environments in Bellville, Cape Town. The role emphasizes Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization, and cloud workloads with opportunity to automate using PowerShell.

You will join a collaborative team and work on 2nd/3rd line support, migrations, and DR planning while contributing to robust security, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.