Senior Manager: Infrastructure

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Salt Recruitment Full time

The Enterprise Infrastructure Services Division seeks to appoint a senior manager to lead the Core Infrastructure Services team who are responsible for the provision and support of a range of infrastructure services which enable administration, teaching and learning and research.

The Senior Manager: Core Infrastructure Services is responsible for enabling and supporting on ICT infrastructure by managing Core Infrastructure Services, compute, storage and network infrastructure, and related services in a complex and heterogeneous system environment. This is a senior role, playing a critical part in ensuring that our client derives value from its investment in ICT technologies.

About you:

- Have you demonstrated experience in management, working in Infrastructure operations and associated project management
- Do you effectively manage operational problems, ensuring the appropriate process is followed from start to finish?
- Are you looking to take your infrastructure skills to the next level, leading and developing others?
- Do you possess excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with staff at all levels?
- Do you can build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders?

If the answer to these questions is yes - we want to hear from you

Requirements for the job:

- A relevant degree at NQF level 7 (e.g. Computer Science, Information Systems etc.)
- 10 years relevant work experience in enterprise ICT compute, storage and network infrastructure design, implementation, and operation, including infrastructure, systems integration, and architecture.
- A minimum of 3 years must be experience in a senior management role, including the management of people
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of IT project and program management.

Required Technical competencies for the job:
Proven experience in
- Planning, architecting and managing the implementation, support, and maintenance of enterprise virtual platform environments e.g., VMWare, Hyper-V, Kubernetes/Docker and enterprise storage solutions e.g., NetApp, PureStorage including archival storage and backup systems
- The management of enterprise network infrastructure spanning e.g., core, distribution and access layers, including network security, firewalls, segmentation, routing, NAC, Unified Wireless Networks and Mobility
- Managing Windows and Unix/Linux server environments
- Infrastructure automation including architectures, models, concepts, principles and implementation

Working knowledge of
- Private/public cloud environments and architectures (OpenStack, Amazon or Azure) including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
- Single Sign-on/Federation technologies such as SAML, ADFS, active directory and Shibboleth
- Application and operating system patching solutions, vulnerability management and remote configuration mechanisms e.g., WSUS, SCCM

Required Non-Technical competencies for the job:

- Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to form effective working relationships with other staff and stakeholders
- Confidence communicating technical concepts and technology derived business benefits to non-technical staff and stakeholders
- Determination and tenacity to drive service delivery improvements and the ability to assess effectiveness of service delivery measures and make improvement suggestions
- A passion for people, using great communication and leadership skills to motivate staff
- Attention to detail when delivering technical documentation, policies, and procedures

Hybrid work arrangements can be negotiated.

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

**Job Information**:

- Job Reference: JO-2308-337280
- Salary: ZAR1137499.00 - ZAR1338233.00 per annum
- Salary per: annum
- Job Duration:

- Job Start Date: 2023/10/01
- Job Industries: Technology
- Job Locations: Cape Town
- Job Types: Permanent



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