Senior Data Center Architect & Engineering Lead

Shoprite Group of Companies; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Shoprite Group of Companies is seeking a Data Centre Engineering Lead to design, implement and optimise data centre infrastructure across leased environments, ensuring high availability, resilience and cost efficiency while aligning with business and technical requirements.

You will lead data centre architecture activities, monitor platform health, manage lifecycle processes, engage vendors and support cross-functional solution delivery.

Qualifications

• Qualification in IT or Engineering essential.
• +5 years’ experience in data centre infrastructure engineering, operations or similar.
• Experience with virtualisation, storage, Unix/Linux and backup technologies.
• Exposure to leased data centre environments and infrastructure optimisation beneficial.
• Experience working with vendors and managed service providers beneficial.
• Certifications in VMware VCP, SAN/Storage (Brocade/IBM Storage) essential.
• OpenShift Certification desirable.
• NetApp certification desirable.

Responsibilities

• Analyse infrastructure designs across compute, storage, and Unix to ensure performance and resilience.
• Review architectures and recommend improvements aligned to business requirements.
• Monitor platform health, capacity and utilisation for scalability.
• Document standards and improve lifecycle management practices.
• Lead and prioritise team activities for timely delivery.
• Resolve operational issues and optimise resource utilisation.
• Analyse backup/recovery environments and validate disaster readiness.
• Support business engagement and cross-functional solution delivery.
• Monitor vendor performance and drive cost optimisation initiatives.

Skills

Virtualisation

Unix/Linux

Backup technologies

Vendor management

Education

Qualification in Information Technology or Engineering

Tools

VMware VCP

SAN/Storage Certifications

OpenShift Certification

NetApp Certification

IBM Power VM

ITSM Experience

Job description

Shoprite Group of Companies is seeking a Data Centre Engineering Lead to design, implement and optimise data centre infrastructure across leased environments, ensuring high availability, resilience and cost efficiency while aligning with business and technical requirements.

You will lead data centre architecture activities, monitor platform health, manage lifecycle processes, engage vendors and support cross-functional solution delivery.