Senior Platform and Compute Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Senior Platform and Compute Engineer for a 12 Month Contract in South Africa. The role focuses on maintaining service availability, leading critical customer engagements, and driving platform and compute initiatives across enterprise environments.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Azure IaaS, Windows Server, O365, and DR solutions, along with relevant Azure and VMware certifications.

Qualifications

• Graduate or experienced professional with preferred certifications (AZ-305, VCP).
• Strong VMware, Hyper-V, and Azure IaaS skills required.
• ITIL Foundation is a plus; vendor certifications advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintain service availability for customers and perform routine maintenance.
• Proactively monitor alerts and status changes; update customers via phone and email.
• Lead engineer for key customers; participate in on-call rota for 24/7 support.
• Attend Change Advisory Board and represent Platform and Compute in meetings.
• Prepare and review technical incident reports and RCA findings.
• Collaborate with solutions team to develop new services and proposals.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Hyper-V

Azure IaaS

Windows Server administration

O365/M365 administration

Backup and DR

Networking basics

Education

Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

VMware VCP

ITIL Foundation

Dell EMC Server Certifications

HPE Server Certifications

Tools

Dell EMC

Dell Server Certifications

HPE Server Certifications

Brocade/Cisco SAN switches

ServiceNow/Autotask

Job description

About the job Senior Platform and Compute Engineer

Senior Platform and Compute Engineer - 12 MonthContract

Role Responsibilities

Maintain service availability for customers by:

• Performing routine maintenance
• Proactively monitoring alerts and status changes
• Perform project-related duties for new and changing infrastructure deployments as required.
• Regularly update customers on the progress of incidents, problems, and changes via telephone and email.
• Regularly update The Company's ticketing systems (Service Now / Autotask) with quality notes on incidents, problems, and change requests.
• Complete customer Change Requests, including:
  • Impact and risk analysis
  • Implementation (including out-of-hours where required)
• Provide technical consultancy across the business to support the integrity and performance of Platform and Compute initiatives.
• Provide senior-level technical assistance when Tier 1 efforts have not resolved incidents.
• Identify and implement practical technical solutions without compromising commercial viability.
• Stay current and certified in relevant technologies.
• Capture recurring faults and perform root cause analysis.
• Proactively identify and act on fault trends.
• Act as Lead Engineer for key customers of The Company for support, service transition, and project work.
• Participate in the on-call rota to ensure 24/7 support availability and respond to out-of-hours calls within SLA timeframes.
• Attend the Change Advisory Board for customer change requests.
• Represent Platform and Compute Support in meetings and internal working groups.
• Attend customer meetings to provide technical consultancy (primarily via video conferencing, occasionally onsite).
• Visit customer sites for project or support-related activities.
• Conduct technical audits for key customers as part of the Service Improvement Process or where issues are identified.
• Collaborate with the solutions team to develop new services and proposals.
• Keep all customer documentation up to date.
• Provide input for customer-facing Technical Incident Reports.
• Identify and help close gaps in technical documentation, skills, and knowledge.
• Create and maintain accurate technical documentation for customers.

Qualifications

Graduate or qualified by experience, with preferred certifications including:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• VMware VCP VCP-DCV 6.x, 7.x, 8.x
• Dell EMC
• Dell Server certifications (advantageous)
• HPE Server certifications (advantageous)
• ITIL Foundation

Experience

• VMware vSphere 6.x7.x
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• SAN Fabric Switches: Brocade, Cisco
• Server hardware support: Dell, HP, IBM
• Azure IaaS cloud administration and support
• Administering/troubleshooting Windows Server and associated roles (DNS, Active Directory, AD Connect, etc.)
• O365/M365 deployment, migration, and administration
• Backup and disaster recovery technologies (e.g., Veeam, Azure Site Recovery)