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Assistant Vice President - Cloud Architecture (Wintel & Infrastructure Operations)

EQPlus

  • Undisclosed
  • Permanent Specialist position
  • Cape Town Region
  • Posted 28 Aug 2025 by EQPlus
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2620768
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About the position

An established and innovative global services company is seeking an Assistant Vice President - Cloud Architecture to oversee large-scale Wintel and infrastructure operations. This leadership role requires deep technical expertise, strong operational governance, and the ability to manage teams and vendors in a 24x7 environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day IT operations to ensure stability and compliance.
  • Oversee large-scale Wintel operations across servers, storage, and virtualization technologies.
  • Ensure effective use of ITSM frameworks, processes, and controls.
  • Partner with internal stakeholders, service delivery teams, and external vendors.
  • Lead governance of partner and supplier relationships, including OEM coordination.
  • Provide technical guidance to SMEs while ensuring operational excellence in BAU functions.
  • Maintain compliance with security and regulatory standards such as ISO 27001, SOX, and PCI DSS.

Technical Skills & Experience

  • Strong understanding of Wintel technologies: Active Directory, Group Policies, Office 365, SCCM, SCOM, Antivirus, Proxies, and Clustering.
  • Proven experience in AWS or Azure cloud infrastructure, server/storage technologies, and networking (DNS, DHCP, IP, LAN/WAN, firewalls).
  • Knowledge of datacenter operations, server patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with scripting, automation tools, and backup/storage technologies.
  • Certifications in Microsoft Server/Active Directory; ITIL Foundation required. PMP certification beneficial.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 8-12 years' experience managing enterprise-scale IT operations.
  • Strong communication, influencing, and consultative skills.
  • Ability to operate effectively at all organizational levels.

If you're an experienced IT leader with expertise in cloud and Wintel infrastructure, we encourage you to apply.

Desired Skills:

  • Cloud Architecture
  • Wintel Operations
  • Infrastructure Management
  • IT Service Delivery
  • ITIL
  • Microsoft Server
  • Vendor Governance

Desired Work Experience:

  • More than 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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EQPlus is a Specialist IT & Financial Recruitment Consultancy with a team of highly experienced staff and shareholders, representative of South Africa's unique diversity. EQPlus is a Specialist Resourcing Services organization, specialising in the provision of contracting staff, permanent staff as well as Executive Search. We do IT your way. EQPlus is a leading provider of IT and Financial talent, on all levels of your business Founded in 1999, the dynamic team at EQPlus focusses on the following business units: EQ Resourcing EQPlus is able to supply top quality technical specialists in all technologies e.g. Mobile Technologies, Java, C#, SQL, Oracle, COBOL, Natural – all levels. EQ PLUS ensures that the candidate match the client’s skills requirement and the culture of the organisation. EQ Plus provides a personal service of exceptional value. EQ Professional Services EQPlus is highly experienced in the sourcing of Programme and Project Managers for short and long term positions, both local and internationally. Business Analysts/Business Process skills are also available with experience across multiple leading BA methodologies. EQ Staffing Solutions EQ Staffing solutions is designed to meet your needs, be it Teams, Fixed price or Executive search. Our offering includes bespoke application development skills across all the enterprise development platforms and technologies over the full lifecycle of a project. Why EQPLUS We have a track record of excellent service delivery on small and large scale recruitment projects. •Our team of inspirational bright minds enables us to provide business leadership in our field. •We provide Technology Expertise, using state of the art Recruitment Intellectual Property •We consistently provide quality candidates, at great value for money with passionate service delivery. •We serve clients and candidates spanning the technology and geographic landscape of South Africa. •We are a Total Talent Solution Centre of Excellence and have specialists that focus on the IT Industry. •We provide Executive Search appointments, Independent Contractors and Permanent Appointments including: oArchitects, oBusiness Analysts, oProject Managers, oAnalyst Programmers (Java, C#, PHP, Web Logic, SQL, Cobol, Universe, SAP, Oracle etc.) oNetwork Engineers (up to CCIE level). oMicrosoft Technology experts, oJava Application Development experts and oMobile Development experts. oFinancial Industry Professionals.

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