Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Digital Outsource Services (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Life Cover

Funeral Fund

Benefit Income Continuation

Benefit Medical Aid Subsidy

Retirement Annuity Subsidy

Job summary

Super Group International is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer in Cape Town to lead infrastructure improvements across multiple clouds, optimize costs and ensure security and compliance. The role involves automation, PMO collaboration, and driving scalable, portable solutions that can move between clouds or on-premise.

You will work with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Confluence, and must demonstrate strong IT foundations with Microsoft/AWS certifications and 5+ years in IT.

Qualifications

• A relevant Information Technology qualification.
• Microsoft and AWS certifications.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the Information Technology industry using Microsoft Technologies.
• Experience with Terraform and code repositories.
• Understanding of systems and architecture (DBs, Servers, Networks, storage).
• Ability to troubleshoot in a timely and effective manner.

Responsibilities

• Apply best practice and configuring virtual environments including hyper-visors and Kubernetes.
• Work with multiple public clouds to deliver solutions to the business that are cost effective and scalable.
• Deliver solutions that are portable and can be moved between public clouds or to on-prem.
• Use code repositories and IaaC to deliver projects that repeatable and predictable.
• Analysing current systems and searching for optimizations in spending on all resources with a focus on items like software licenses and hardware sprawl.
• Continually research new technologies, maintain strong relationships with top vendors, arrange POC reviews of new tech to validate cost effectiveness within the group and negotiate highly discounted deals in a morally sound way.
• Work closely with the PMO team to effectively manage projects that you and the team work on.
• Use Confluence as a central repository for information about Infrastructure and how-to documents to enable others in the team to upskill easily and get tasks done as to DOS best practice.
• Ensure that standards like ISO27001, SOX, etc. are maintained.
• Analyse current infrastructure and actively seek ways to innovate and optimize our systems through self-initiated projects that are monitored and managed by PMO.
• Promote automation within the team.
• Ensure monitoring is in place to detect failure or potential failure of all systems including but not limited to Servers, Storage and Data Centre services such as UPS, Air-con and Generators.
• Work closely with other Infrastructure teams to understand their requirements or challenges and match their needs with solutions available.
• When required work closely with the Architect team to facilitate the alignment of future needs with the infrastructure already deployed within the group.
• Work closely with the Solutions Delivery Manager to plan and forecast for needed hardware spends to proactively match all needs of the business.

Skills

IT qualifications

Microsoft Certification

AWS Certification

Cloud experience

SOX understanding

Understanding of IT architecture

Education

IT tertiary qualification

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Super Group International is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer in Cape Town to lead infrastructure improvements across multiple clouds, optimize costs and ensure security and compliance. The role involves automation, PMO collaboration, and driving scalable, portable solutions that can move between clouds or on-premise.

You will work with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Confluence, and must demonstrate strong IT foundations with Microsoft/AWS certifications and 5+ years in IT.