Azure Infrastructure Architect

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Datacentrix Full time

Estimated Salary: R1 200 000 - R1 800 000 per annum

About Datacentrix

Datacentrix is a leading IT solutions provider in South Africa, delivering innovative technology solutions to businesses across various sectors. With a strong presence in the logistics industry, we strive to provide exceptional services and support to our clients.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Azure Engineer (Architect level) to join our dynamic team in Pomona, Kempton Park. As a Senior Azure Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure using Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of experience in similar roles like Platform Engineer, DevOps, SRE or Backend Engineer with a strong background in DevOps and Cloud technologies, CI pipelines, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, and writing production-quality bash scripts. Proficiency in FinOps and services plans is essential.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Infrastructure Design and Development: Builds, runs, and supports highly available platform with security first principle aligned with company standards
  • Cloud Expertise: Proactively stays up-to-date with new Microsoft Azure services and more optimized cost offerings
  • Platform Management: Creates and manages platform on company Azure infrastructure using ARM, Terraform, Ansible
  • Logging and Monitoring: Implements logging & monitoring into Datadog to ensure smooth operation of the Azure platform
  • Incident Handling: Handles incidents & outages, restores services, and performs post-incident & root cause analysis
  • FinOps and Capacity Planning: Owns FinOps & Capacity Planning to optimize spending and scalability, and review opportunities
  • Continuous Improvement: Delivers continuous improvement of recipes, scripts, and templates for reproducible deployments
  • Security and Compliance: Shows proficiency in secure infrastructure & networking, and data life cycle management
Minimum Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience working as a Platform Engineer, DevOps, SRE or Backend Engineer
  • 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure
  • 3+ years of experience working with CI pipelines (Azure DevOps, Azure)
  • Proficiency with ARM, Terraform, Ansible
  • Proficiency in writing production-quality bash scripts
  • Proficiency with FinOps and services plans
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
  • Azure Container Apps (ACA) experience a plus
  • Experience setting up Datadog a big plus
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform a plus
  • Hands-on experience with Ansible a plus
  • Degree in computer science preferred


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