About the position
One of South Africa's leading diversified financial services groups, specializing in direct marketing and sales of financial products is seeking a Server Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of core server infrastructure, messaging, identity, virtualization, storage, and Microsoft cloud services.
Responsibilities:
- Windows Server Lifecycle: Administer, patch, harden, and troubleshoot Windows Server environments across Production, UAT, Dev, and DR.
- VMware vSphere: Maintain ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and datastores. Troubleshoot performance (CPU/memory pressure, storage latency, and network config).
- Storage & SAN: Manage SAN-attached storage from a virtualization perspective, including capacity planning, LUN connectivity, and multipathing.
- On-Premises AD: Support AD Domain Services, Group Policies (GPOs), Kerberos/LDAP authentication, replication health, and domain controller maintenance.
- Hybrid Identity: Administer Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and manage hybrid identity synchronization via Entra Connect.
- Access Governance: Enforce least-privilege access, manage privileged accounts, and assist with audit readiness.
- Exchange Hybrid: Maintain on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online coexistence, managing mailboxes, transport rules, connectors, and migration activities.
- Mailflow Troubleshooting: Investigate complex mail delivery, relay, and certificate issues.
- Email Security: Administer MailMarshal (or similar secure email gateways) and enforce robust sender authentication protocols (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
- M365 Administration: Support core M365 services (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive) and handle licensing, compliance, and tenant health.
- Azure Infrastructure: Support hybrid Azure resources including VMs, virtual networks, Network Security Groups (NSGs), and private endpoints.
- Joint Investigations: Work with developers to isolate issues across IIS, SQL Server connections, scheduled tasks, certificates, and API/network dependencies.
- Root Cause Analysis: Analyze event logs, message tracks, and performance counters to resolve application-infrastructure bottlenecks.
- Proactive Monitoring: Maintain and improve alert monitoring dashboards (Nagios, PRTG, SolarWinds, or Azure Monitor).
- Disaster Recovery (DR): Execute DR replication, backup testing (Veeam/enterprise tools), and failover validation.
- Governance: Strictly adhere to change control, vulnerability remediation, and documentation standards.
Minimum Requirements:- Experience: 7+ years of enterprise server/infrastructure engineering experience.
- Core Systems: Deep expertise in Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and VMware vSphere.
- Messaging: Expert-level knowledge of Exchange (on-premises & Online), mailflow, and email routing.
- Email Security: Hands-on experience with secure email gateways (e.g., MailMarshal) and SPF/DKIM/DMARC configurations.
- Escalation Focus: Proven track record of owning major production incidents and collaborating with developer teams.
- Preferred Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate (or equivalent Exchange experience)
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
- ITIL Foundation
- Security certifications (e.g., Security+, SC-300, SC-200)
- Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in financial services, insurance, or highly regulated environments.
- Hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure, Entra ID Connect, and PowerShell automation.
- Familiarity with Linux administration (SSH, DNS, package management, basic scripting).
- Database infrastructure support (SQL Server) and IIS web server administration.
- Experience with Veeam or similar enterprise backup solutions.
Benefits:
Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)
IF you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to [Email Address Removed].com
Desired Skills:
- Server Engineer
- Server Engineer
- Server Engineer
