Storage Administrator

Discovery Limited; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health technology company in South Africa is seeking a Storage Administrator to manage and support a growing storage environment. The role involves monitoring and troubleshooting, delivering infrastructure projects, and ensuring high availability of storage services. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of relevant experience and be proficient in various storage technologies, including Pure FlashArray and Dell PowerMax. This full-time position is based in Sandton, Gauteng.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with storage technologies advantageous.
• Matric required.
• Knowledge of Unix or Linux advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and troubleshoot the storage environment.
• Deliver storage-related projects for infrastructure.
• Liaise with departments in technology teams.
• Ensure storage environment uptime meets SLAs.
• Address storage-related ServiceNow calls within SLAs.

Skills

Knowledge of Pure FlashArray

Experience with Dell PowerMax

Scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

Working with SAN Switches

Education

Certificate in Storage Technologies

Tools

Pure ActiveCluster

Pure FlashBlade

Vast Data Platform

Brocade SAN Switches

Veritas InfoScale

Job description

Storage Administrator

Sandton, Gauteng R900000 - R1200000 Y Discovery Ltd.

Posted today

Job Description

Business Unit: Discovery Central Services

Function: Information Technology

Date: 15 Oct 2025

Discovery – Technology Services

Storage Administrator

About Discovery

Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About The Storage Team ( Technology Services)

The storage role is within the Technology Services area that provides and supports the infrastructure for the South African group companies. The role will be based in South Africa and will report to the Technical Operations Manager for the purpose of servicing Discovery Holdings by ensuring the availability and stability of the storage environment. We are embarking on new TS strategic journey were will be embracing Infrastructure as Code and Cloud First.

Key Purpose

The storage administrator manages and supports the environment, as the company data storage grows and new hardware is purchased.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting of the Storage Environment administering infrastructure.
• Assisting in delivering storage-related projects for infrastructure
• Liaising with all departments in TS and technology teams across all companies
• Ensuring that the Storage environment achieves a 99.50% uptime SLA out site scheduled change windows
• Ensure that all storage-related ServiceNow calls are addressed within a 90% SLA

Qualifications

• You will be required to work RSA core business hours
• Knowledge and skill working with Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade Storage Area Network (SAN) Switches, Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, .) and Veritas InfoScale

Education and Experience

• Matric
• A certificate in Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous
• 5 years of experience working with Pure Flash Array, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.