Data Center Engineering Lead at Shoprite Group of Companies

About the role    

• The purpose of a Data Centre Engineering Lead is to design, implement and optimise data centre infrastructure solutions across leased environments by ensuring high availability, resilience, cost efficiency, and alignment to business and technical requirements, while supporting lifecycle management, vendor engagement, and infrastructure performance.

What you'll do    

Data Centre Engineering & Architecture

• Analyse infrastructure environments across compute, storage, virtualisation, and Unix platforms to ensure performance and resilience
• Review architecture designs and recommend improvements aligned to business and technical requirements
• Monitor platform health, capacity, and utilisation to support scalability and efficiency
• Document standards, configurations, and engineering practices to ensure consistency. Improve lifecycle management practices through continuous review and optimisation

Leadership & Operational Support

• Monitor team activities and support prioritisation to ensure timely delivery of work
• Diagnose operational issues and support resolution across engineering domains
• Review workloads and recommend improvements to resource utilisation and efficiency
• Support escalation handling by investigating complex incidents and recommending solutions
• Document processes and improve operational practices to enhance stability and performance

Backup, Recovery & Continuity

• Analyse backup and recovery environments to ensure data protection and reliability
• Monitor recovery objectives and test disaster recovery processes to validate readiness
• Diagnose recovery failures and resolve issues to improve resilience
• Review continuity processes and recommend improvements aligned to business needs
• Document recovery procedures and support ongoing optimisation

Business Engagement & Solution Delivery

• Analyse business and application requirements to support infrastructure solution design
• Recommend scalable and supportable infrastructure configurations
• Support delivery of projects, migrations, and infrastructure initiatives
• Review solution performance and improve alignment to business expectations
• Work collaboratively to support integrated, cross-functional solution delivery

Vendor & Cost Optimisation

• Monitor vendor performance and support service delivery against agreed standards
• Analyse vendor solutions and recommend improvements or alternatives
• Support cost optimisation initiatives through infrastructure and service reviews
• Review procurement inputs and document recommendations for decision-making
• Improve vendor engagement practices to enhance service quality and efficiency

What you bring    

• A Qualification in Information Technology, Engineering or in a related field - (essential).
• +5 years’ experience in data centre infrastructure engineering, operations or similar - (essential).
• Experience with virtualisation, storage, Unix/Linux and backup technologies - (essential).
• Exposure to leased data centre environments and infrastructure optimisation - (beneficial).
• Experience working with vendors and managed service providers - (beneficial).
• Certifications in VMware VCP, SAN or Storage Certifications (Brocade / IBM Storage) - (essential) 
• OpenShift Certification - (desired) 
• NetApp - (desired)   Experience in IBM Power VM - (essentialA)   ITSM Experience - (essential)

Closing Date    

• 2026/09/13