Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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| Location | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Contract | Full time |
| Work Model | Hybrid |
| Closing | in about 2 months |
Responsibilities:
Platform Operations: Maintain, optimize, and support Azure and M365 platform services to ensure reliable global operations.
Escalation Support: Act as an escalation point for incidents raised through the Global Service Desk within an ITIL framework.
Incident & Problem Management: Participate in major incident response, rapid service restoration, root-cause analysis, and long-term fixes.
Subject Matter Expertise: Design and implement secure, scalable technical solutions for business and project needs.
Monitoring & Capacity: Monitor cloud service capacity, performance, and availability for early issue detection.
Security & Compliance: Identify risks, apply remediations, and ensure security changes are implemented without business disruption.
Maintenance & Lifecycle: Execute scheduled maintenance, including patching, upgrades, certificate renewals, and resource lifecycle management.
Standby: Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to provide out-of-hours support for critical services.
Minimum Requirements:
5years of professional IT experience delivering services across cloud and on-premises environments (ideally within financial services, insurance, or similar sectors).
3years of hands-on experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering (Microsoft Azure and hybrid solutions).
Enterprise Operations: Proven experience working within large, complex organizations across distributed, multi-disciplinary teams and matrixed structures.
ITIL Framework: Comfortable operating within ITIL-aligned processes (incident, problem, change, request fulfillment, and service transition).
FinOps: Strong understanding of cloud cost-management principles (optimization, forecasting, and responsible consumption).
Soft Skills: Self-driven and effective when working remotely under minimal supervision; excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Technical Skills
M365 & Identity: Solid background in Exchange Online (mail flow, hygiene, transport rules) and Entra ID with Conditional Access (MFA, PIM, SSO).
Governance & Compliance: Experience with Power Platform governance (environments, DLP, connector controls) and Microsoft Purview (DLP, retention, Insider Risk, eDiscovery).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Demonstrated expertise using Terraform, Bicep, and Azure ARM templates for repeatable deployments.
Automation: Strong proficiency in PowerShell and Azure Automation Runbooks (drafting, testing, and troubleshooting across Hybrid Worker environments).
Azure Governance: Deep understanding of RBAC, PIM, policy enforcement, naming standards, and subscription structuring.
Observability & SRE: Skilled in Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Azure Managed Grafana. Strong focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles (high availability, load balancing, resilience engineering).
Security Hardening: Solid knowledge of CIS baselines, identity controls, certificate lifecycle management, and vulnerability remediation.
Lifecycle Management: Skilled in patch and update management leveraging Azure Update Manager.
Networking (Advantageous): Good understanding of cloud networking (VNets, NSGs, firewalls, private endpoints, routing).
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)
IF you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to
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