Platform Engineer: FinOps & Cloud Infrastructure

Vista Group; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rest & Relax Fridays

Annual volunteer day

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Medical Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Paid Sick leave

Bereavement leave

On-Site Breakfast Bar

Job summary

Vista Group is seeking System Engineers (Platform Infrastructure) to maintain Vista Cloud and VMS security and availability. You will build and monitor hosted cloud environments, scale resources, and lead security incident responses to improve overall security posture.

Role covers operational support, security operations, and product/technical support with emphasis on IaC, DevOps, and cross-team collaboration. Hybrid work arrangement includes regular Cape Town office attendance.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary degree in business or technology (preferred).
• Azure or AWS certification desired.
• Strong server administration experience (MCSE/MCSA).
• Solid understanding of Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Solid knowledge of IP networking and enterprise architecture.
• Familiarity with firewall, security, and compliance concepts.
• Experience with DevOps, repositories, deployment pipelines, and IaC.
• Willingness to learn and grow in IaC and security.
• Understanding of compliance requirements.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with software design processes.
• Commitment to excellent client service and relationship building.

Responsibilities

• Understand current scales of containers, VM scale kits, VMs, DB pools, App Services and DBs – resizing and re-scaling as necessary.
• Delete unused assets and alter IaC templates to make such assets optionally configurable.
• Continue the weekly scaling of environments as necessary.
• Monitor and manage orphaned Azure resources.
• Shape and implement systems, processes, and methodologies to ensure effective monitoring of Vista’s services.
• Take ownership of, and lead the response to, suspected and confirmed security incidents – feed findings back into system design.
• Proactively assist in delivering high-quality security outcomes for Vista’s global operations, including regular reviews of security posture.
• Remain current on Vista Cloud tech, deployment and operational processes.
• Train internal support teams and act as escalation point for security events.
• Provide technical advice on security incidents and guidance to Development Team on remediations.
• Drill down into analysis with Head of Cloud Operations and other Managers to ensure standards.
• Provide advice to Development Team on possible security remediations.
• Proactively work on increasing security scores and managing security posture.
• Assist PMO with SoW scoping and technical reviews; provide security advice to implementation teams.
• Utilize tools to log requests with the services team.
• Create material for monthly security posture reports.

Skills

Server administration

Active Directory

Networking basics

Security operations

IaC / DevOps

Incident response

Vulnerability remediation

Compliance awareness

Problem solving

Client service

Communication skills

Education

Relevant tertiary degree in business or technology (preferred)

Azure Certification

AWS Certification

MCSE / MCSA

Tools

Azure

AWS

PowerShell

Terraform / IaC

Monitoring tools

Job description

Vista Group is seeking System Engineers (Platform Infrastructure) to maintain Vista Cloud and VMS security and availability. You will build and monitor hosted cloud environments, scale resources, and lead security incident responses to improve overall security posture.

Role covers operational support, security operations, and product/technical support with emphasis on IaC, DevOps, and cross-team collaboration. Hybrid work arrangement includes regular Cape Town office attendance.