Storage Administrator

2 weeks ago

Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time R900 000 - R1 200 000 per year

Business Unit: Discovery Central Services

Function: Information Technology

Date: 15 Oct 2025

Discovery – Technology Services

Storage Administrator

About Discovery

Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About The Storage Team ( Technology Services)

The storage role is within the Technology Services area that provides and supports the infrastructure for the South African group companies. The role will be based in South Africa and will report to the Technical Operations Manager for the purpose of servicing Discovery Holdings by ensuring the availability and stability of the storage environment. We are embarking on new TS strategic journey were will be embracing Infrastructure as Code and Cloud First.

Key Purpose

The storage administrator manages and supports the environment, as the company data storage grows and new hardware is purchased.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited

  • Monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting of the Storage Environment administering infrastructure.

    Assisting in delivering storage-related projects for infrastructure
  • Liaising with all departments in TS and technology teams across all companies
  • Ensuring that the Storage environment achieves a 99.50% uptime SLA out site scheduled change windows
  • Ensure that all storage-related ServiceNow calls are addressed within a 90% SLA

Personal Attributes and Skills

  • You will be required to work RSA core business hours
  • Knowledge and skill working with Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade Storage Area Network (SAN) Switches, Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, ..) and Veritas InfoScale

Education and Experience

  • Matric
  • A certificate in Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous
  • 5 years of experience working with Pure Flash Array, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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