Contractor - Infrastructure Manager - Cape Town at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

The Infrastructure manager provides technical expertise and support for the management of the IT infrastructure within the organisation. This role will implement infrastructure standards and designs and will perform capacity planning, monitoring and will have oversight for the day to day and future operational requirements. This individual will be responsible for Infrastructure and OT architecture and will ensure close integration with the Enterprise Architect in an enterprise environment to successfully deliver infrastructure technology solutions. This role will also ensure infrastructure services business are reliable and secure and proactively offer and support in any technology efficiency / improvement. This role forms part of the IT leadership team. 

• Lead in the provision of scalable, maintainable, high performance Infrastructure, utilising agreed technology and advising CIO on technologies required for purchase and renewal
• Understand functional, technical and the business requirements at a detailed level, across the value chain, and produce technical solutions that are fit for purpose. Own technical solutions from POC to implementation.
• Apply active governance and security controls around overall design, quality, and technical standards

Define technology roadmaps and infrastructure direction in the following areas

• Hardware / Software/ Virtualisation architecture
• Storage Area Networking
• Operating Systems
• Infrastructure for the Database environment - SQL & Oracle
• System Configuration
• Performance Management & Tuning
• Network Design – LAN / WAN / WIFI /VOIP
• Network Management
• Server Architecture – Wintel & Unix
• Cloud technology
• Partnering with Architects, Project Delivery and Service Delivery teams to understand functional requirements of a given project/application
• Ensure that all capabilities delivered align with original business objectives, service levels, IT strategies and design intent
• Possess a sound understanding of functional and business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables
• Provides advanced technical expertise, oversight and accountability for resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with operational support teams.
• Contract Management - Evaluates a potential service provider and carries out all required contract negotiations 

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field, or equivalent work experience

Work Experience: 

• 10 or more years in a senior technical role (technical team lead, principal engineer) with broad cross domain technology exposure at scale.
• 5+ years management experience in a refinery, logistics or chemical processing environment with experience in Operational Technology (OT)
• Exposure to or certification in ITIL/TOGAF desired

 Knowledge and skills:

• Thought-leader and change agent to drive innovation and change at a strategic level that delivers maximum business value
• Ability to working under pressure, with tight deadlines and a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Infrastructure design and architecture experience
• Experienced with designing and maintaining large complex infrastructure spanning across multiple data centres
• Expertise in principles and methods (SDLC, Stage Gate, Security and Risk Mitigation).
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure automation, orchestration, and configuration management tools.
• Knowledge of authentication services and security controls required
• Good understanding of Data Centre technologies/services