Senior Cloud & Infra Engineer - Azure, VMware & Automation

NTT Ltd.; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a seasoned Managed Services Cross Technology Engineer (L3) to design, deploy, and manage hybrid infrastructures across Azure, VMware, storage, backup, and networking. You will build automation pipelines, mentor junior engineers, and lead complex projects to meet SLA expectations in a global enterprise.

The role requires strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and the ability to operate across multiple domains including cloud, virtualization, storage, and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience in a large enterprise or managed services environment.
• Experience supporting hybrid environments consisting of Microsoft Azure, VMware, enterprise storage, backup, and networking technologies.
• Proven experience deploying and managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Knowledge of Azure governance, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Strong troubleshooting, collaboration and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain hybrid infrastructure platforms spanning Microsoft Azure, VMware, storage, backup, and networking.
• Build, manage, and optimize Azure environments using IaC (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, Azure CLI).
• Deploy and manage Azure services (VMs, VNets, Storage, Backup, Site Recovery).
• Design CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for automation.
• Administer VMware vSphere/vCenter/vSAN and SRM environments.
• Manage enterprise storage (NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure, HPE) incl. SAN/NAS and zoning.
• Configure Fibre Channel SAN, zoning, multipathing, and switches.
• Implement backup/DR with Veeam, Azure Backup/Site Recovery, Rubrik, Zerto.
• Monitor cloud/on-prem infrastructure with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Investigate and resolve cross-technology incidents across cloud, virtualization, storage, backup, networking, security.
• Perform root cause analyses and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Enforce governance and security controls using Azure Policy, RBAC, Defender for Cloud.
• Support cloud migrations and hybrid-cloud projects (VMware-to-Azure).
• Identify automation and cost-optimization opportunities; mentor Level 2 engineers.
• Lead infrastructure projects, delivering on time and to standard.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud expertise

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

AZ-104 Certification

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Bicep

ARM Templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Azure CLI

VMware vSphere

vCenter

vSAN

NetApp

Dell EMC

Pure Storage

Rubrik

Zerto

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a seasoned Managed Services Cross Technology Engineer (L3) to design, deploy, and manage hybrid infrastructures across Azure, VMware, storage, backup, and networking. You will build automation pipelines, mentor junior engineers, and lead complex projects to meet SLA expectations in a global enterprise.

The role requires strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and the ability to operate across multiple domains including cloud, virtualization, storage, and security.