Senior IT Infrastructure & Cloud Platforms Lead

Unitrade 745 (Pty) Ltd; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Provident Fund

Job summary

Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to provide hands-on expertise across on‑premises, hosted and cloud environments. The role supports servers, storage, virtualization, backup, and network services, ensuring availability and performance.

The successful candidate will administer and improve infrastructure across hybrid environments, coordinate incident resolution, and contribute to projects while guiding IT colleagues and external vendors.

Qualifications

• Required: Relevant Degree and/or equivalent qualifications in IT or related fields.
• Minimum 5–8 years' experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Administration, Cloud Administration, Networking, or Infrastructure Operations.
• Experience managing hybrid (on-premises and Cloud) infrastructure environments and coordinating service providers/Vendors.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across servers, networking, virtualization, and Cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical expertise across WHC's infrastructure and platform environment.
• Administer, maintain and improve infrastructure and platform services across on‑premise and Cloud environments.
• Coordinate infrastructure incident resolution and root cause analysis.
• Coordinate backup, disaster recovery, and resilience testing activities.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, procedures and technical documentation.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder engagement

Independent worker

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

CCNA/CCNP

CompTIA Network+

CompTIA Server+

VMware VCP

Azure Administrator Associate

AWS Associate

Job description

Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to provide hands-on expertise across on‑premises, hosted and cloud environments. The role supports servers, storage, virtualization, backup, and network services, ensuring availability and performance.

The successful candidate will administer and improve infrastructure across hybrid environments, coordinate incident resolution, and contribute to projects while guiding IT colleagues and external vendors.