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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Cape Town
  • Posted 02 Jul 2025 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 29 days
  • Job 2615586 - Ref 878000007279136
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About the position

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will take ownership of a hybrid infrastructure estate spanning cloud (primarily Azure) and on-premises systems. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer plays a critical role in designing, maintaining, and evolving our infrastructure platforms to support business growth, high availability, and scalability. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, has a strong background in both cloud and on-prem technologies, and can work autonomously on complex problems.

RequirementsKey Responsibility Areas:

  • Design, implement, and maintain robust hybrid infrastructure solutions across cloud (Azure) and on-prem environments.
  • Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • Maintain and administer Linux-based systems, ensuring performance, stability, and security.
  • Build, manage, and deploy containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Manage and support on-premises virtualization infrastructure, particularly Proxmox.
  • Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability across services.
  • Monitor infrastructure health and respond to incidents, performing root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to security hardening and compliance efforts.
  • Administer and troubleshoot cPanel-based hosting environments, including site migrations, SSL, and performance tuning.
  • Manage Domain Hosting and DNS configurations across various registrars and platforms.

Experience / Qualifications: 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.   
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate / Azure Solutions Architect
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • Docker Certified Associate o CompTIA Linux+
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering or systems administration, with at least 2 years in a senior role.
  • Strong track record of managing complex hybrid (cloud + on-prem) infrastructure environments.
  • Proven experience in a senior infrastructure role with hybrid (cloud + on-prem) environments.
  • Strong Linux system administration skills (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.).
  • Expertise with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and container orchestration.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Docker – building, managing, and troubleshooting containers in production.
  • Hands-on experience with Proxmox in production environments.
  • Solid experience with cPanel, WHM, and related web hosting tools.
  • Understanding of domain hosting, DNS management, and common registrar platforms.
  • Solid understanding of networking, firewalls, DNS, load balancers, and VPNs.
  • Experience with scripting (Bash, Python, or PowerShell).
  • Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog, Zabbix, etc.).


Desired Skills:

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • DNS configurations
  • Bash
  • Python
  • or PowerShell.

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Diploma

About The Employer:


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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

About the agency

Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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