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Hosting Engineer

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We are looking for a hosting engineer who can key role of driving automation within a team of highly skilled engineers to deliver IT operational excellence. The role will suit a hands-on DevOps oriented Infrastructure engineer looking to grow their career by assuming responsibility of key Infrastructure artefacts.

The role will report to the Hosting lead and will play an essential part in ensuring that the current Infrastructure landscape is operating at the correct levels following DevOps best practises.


The successful candidate will be an effective communicator and collaborator, have high attention to detail and a pragmatic and “can-do” attitude. They will have experience in working with Agile technologies and will have good knowledge of scripting methodologies and techniques.

  • Primarily responsible for driving automated management of the infrastructure hosting estate (Cisco UCS, Virtualisation, Storage, Backups and Linux) using tools such as Ansible and GitHub
  • Work closely and collaboratively with various stakeholders to ensure that deliverables are in alignment with DevOps capabilities/best practises
  • Manage support and escalations, incidents and root cause analysis.
  • Support, influence and guide external service providers/internal work streams to a successful outcome.
  • Develop and implement administration standards and procedures.
  • Be the prime advocate for automation and Infrastructure as Code

Skills

  • Solid understanding of Vmware VSphere administration with at least 7 but preferably 10 years hands-on experience in an enterprise environment
  • Hands-on experience with Cisco UCS and MDS
  • Experience with Storage technologies, such as fibre channel networks, NFS and object storage
  • Experience with Powershell or other scripting languages
  • Experience with Red Hat Linux (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) administration
  • Experience with DevOps toolset; Ansible, Git, GitHub, etc
  • Solid understanding of network technologies like firewalls, switching, routing, TCP/IP, WAN, LAN
  • Exposure to Kubernetes and containerised environments are desirable
  • Ability to think strategically and perform risk analysis
  • Ability to accept change and adapt organizational change and shifting priorities
  • Good communication skills with the ability to convey technical issues to all levels
  • Builds and maintains strong relationships with leaders, customers, and team members.

The desired candidate will have

  • Experience with Terraform
  • Working knowledge of hybrid environments, preferably Azure.
  • Project management experience
  • Understanding of Intel Windows server technology (Windows 2019/2022)
  • Understanding of current and emerging Microsoft Technologies
  • Disaster recovery experience
  • Previous ITIL exposure

Contract Type: FULL_TIME

Specialism: Technology & Digital

Focus: Programming Development

Industry: IT

Salary: Negotiable

Workplace Type: On-site

Location: Johannesburg

Job Reference: 8AEX5H-98ED4E73

Date posted: 4 February 2025

Consultant: Eloise Ladouceur

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