Infrastructure Manager | Johannesburg | Permanent

Shape the backbone of enterprise technology in a complex, high-performance environment. Lead infrastructure strategy and delivery across multiple platforms and data centres.

This role is responsible for defining, designing, and delivering scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions across a large enterprise landscape. You will take ownership of infrastructure architecture from concept through to implementation, ensuring alignment with business objectives, service levels, and long-term IT strategy.

Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, Service Delivery, and Project teams, you will guide infrastructure standards, capacity planning, and technology roadmaps. You will also play a key role in modernisation initiatives, including cloud migration and infrastructure automation, while maintaining governance across design quality, performance, and operational excellence.

Our client is a well-established enterprise operating within a complex, multi-site environment, with a strong focus on innovation, scalability, and long-term digital transformation.

What You’ll Do

• Define and implement infrastructure strategy, standards, and roadmaps

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure solution design from POC to implementation

• Drive scalable, high-performance infrastructure across multiple data centres

• Oversee capacity planning, monitoring, and performance optimisation

• Guide technology selection, refresh cycles, and investment planning

• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, governance, and business objectives

• Support cloud migration and hybrid infrastructure strategies

• Collaborate with architecture, project, and service delivery teams

• Provide technical leadership in resolving major incidents and service issues

What You Bring

• 6–8+ years in a senior infrastructure or technical architecture role

• Proven experience designing and managing complex, enterprise-scale infrastructure

• Strong cross-domain expertise across servers, networks, storage, and databases

• Deep knowledge of infrastructure automation, orchestration, and configuration tools

• Experience with virtualisation, SAN, Wintel and Unix environments

• Solid understanding of LAN, WAN, WiFi, and VoIP network design

• Exposure to SQL and Oracle database technologies

• Knowledge of authentication technologies including SSO and federation

• Familiarity with SDLC, security, and risk mitigation frameworks

• Exposure to ITIL and/or TOGAF principles

What Success Looks Like

• High-performing, scalable infrastructure aligned to business needs

• Minimal deviation from enterprise architecture standards

• Strong SLA performance and service reliability

• Successful delivery of infrastructure initiatives and technology refresh programmes

• Effective collaboration across architecture, delivery, and operations teams