Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Gauteng – Fourways – On-site (Mining Industry)
Employment Type: Permanent

R45k – R65k Dep. On Exp.

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with a passion for designing, managing, and securing enterprise IT environments? Our client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the delivery, support, and continuous improvement of both IT and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure across multiple African operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support enterprise infrastructure including VMware, Hyper-V, HCI (Dell/HP), physical servers, Active Directory, Azure, AWS, Storage, and Backup solutions (Veeam/CommVault).
• Provide technical leadership for IT and OT infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, resilience, and compliance.
• Lead infrastructure projects, strategic initiatives, and technology upgrades across the region.
• Manage complex infrastructure incidents, root cause analysis, and disaster recovery processes.
• Oversee vendor relationships, service providers, and project delivery.
• Implement infrastructure monitoring, cybersecurity controls, and governance frameworks.
• Support Microsoft 365, end-user technologies, video conferencing, and enterprise infrastructure services.
• Drive continuous improvement, risk management, and infrastructure standardisation across multiple sites.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 7+ years' IT Infrastructure experience, with at least 5 years' hands-on experience supporting enterprise servers, HCI, Storage, Backup, Active Directory, Azure/AWS, and virtualisation technologies.
• Strong knowledge of VMware, Hyper-V, Dell/HP infrastructure, SAN/NAS Storage, RAID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, Veeam and/or CommVault.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure security, governance, disaster recovery, and enterprise monitoring.
• Experience within the mining industry will be advantageous.

Preferred Certifications:

• A+ & N+
• MCSE (or equivalent Microsoft certification)
• VMware Administrator
• AWS or Azure Administrator
• ITIL 4 Foundation
• Veeam Administrator (advantageous)

This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading organisation where you'll play a key role in shaping and securing critical infrastructure across multiple African operations while working with cutting-edge technologies. If you're a strategic thinker with strong technical expertise and leadership skills, we'd love to hear from you.