Senior Hybrid Infrastructure Lead (Azure/VMware/OCI)

ATS Client; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

ATS Client in Johannesburg seeks a senior infrastructure leader to own its enterprise hybrid infrastructure operations—covering on‑premise data centres, Azure, AVS, and Oracle OCI. You will guide governance, resilience, and performance for mission‑critical workloads.

Collaborate with cybersecurity, risk, and audit teams to strengthen operational resilience, governance, and secure delivery. Lead cross‑functional teams and vendor relationships in a fast-paced, high‑performance environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years within enterprise infrastructure operations and hybrid cloud environments.
• Extensive leadership experience managing mission-critical infrastructure operations.
• Strong expertise across VMware, Azure AVS, Azure IaaS, Oracle OCI, storage, backup, and virtualization platforms.
• Experience in regulated/financial services environments is advantageous.
• Strong incident management, governance, and resilience capabilities.
• Ability to operate in high-pressure, enterprise-scale environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise hybrid infrastructure operations across data centre, virtualization, storage, backup, and cloud platforms.
• Ensure high availability, operational resilience, and performance across VMware, Azure AVS, Azure IaaS, and Oracle OCI environments.
• Drive proactive monitoring, incident management, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Act as senior escalation point for critical infrastructure incidents and recovery processes.
• Oversee VMware components, HCX migrations, and VM lifecycle management.
• Manage storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Ensure patching, vulnerability remediation, compliance, and operational controls.
• Partner with cybersecurity, cloud, risk, and audit teams to strengthen resilience and governance.
• Lead infrastructure operations teams and drive continuous improvement.
• Manage vendor relationships and operational delivery across major infrastructure and cloud providers.

Skills

Leadership

Incident management

Governance

VMware

Azure AVS

Azure IaaS

Oracle OCI

Storage

Backup

Security

Vendor management

Tools

VMware vSphere/vCenter/ESXi/vSAN

Azure Cloud

Oracle OCI

Job description

ATS Client in Johannesburg seeks a senior infrastructure leader to own its enterprise hybrid infrastructure operations—covering on‑premise data centres, Azure, AVS, and Oracle OCI. You will guide governance, resilience, and performance for mission‑critical workloads.

Collaborate with cybersecurity, risk, and audit teams to strengthen operational resilience, governance, and secure delivery. Lead cross‑functional teams and vendor relationships in a fast-paced, high‑performance environment.