Infrastructure Team Lead (Durban) - Umhlanga at BETSoftware

• Your role will involve supporting, enhancing, and developing IT infrastructure while upskilling and training team members. The infrastructure team acts as a center of excellence for ICT functional areas and the wider business units. Balancing day-to-day support activities with new capabilities and enhancements is crucial to the job.
• Additionally, you'll be responsible for offering recommendations to the leadership team on managing ICT and Business priorities and acting as a subject matter expert across a group of systems.

You Bring:

• Relevant Diploma/Degree in Computer Science or Business-related field.
• At least 5+ years in a similar role and 3 Years as a Network/Security Team Lead.
• Proven Experience in IT Networking and Security – advanced levels.

Exposure to the following technologies/areas:

• Windows Server
• Storage
• VMware – Virtualization
• Red hat / Linux
• Kubernetes
• IaC
• Reporting / Monitoring
• Automation
• Patching
• Azure/Aws
• Network TechnologieAdministration and Support.

• Administration and Support.
• Proven experience in managing and facilitating the mix of internal teams and external vendors as a part of product buildout.

What You’ll Do:

• Ensure implementation and continuous improvements of the ICT processes following best practice standards.
• Contribute to the development of ICT systems to improve ICT security within the organization.
• Plan, implement and maintain the security measures to protect the organisation's classified and unclassified systems, networks and data.
• Provide proper configuration and management of infrastructure components including storage, virtual and physical hardware/servers.
• Contribute to the development of the Disaster Recovery Plan and provide its testing and maintenance.
• Keep up with the latest ICT infrastructure technologies.
• Ensure infrastructure standards by researching new technologies that will benefit the organisation.
• Managing the IT infrastructure through its complete life cycle, including implementations,
• preventative maintenance, capacity planning and interconnectivity
• Procurement of IT infrastructure components.
• Software/hardware licence management and forecasting to ensure compliance and certification to meet requirements.
• Coordinate IT infrastructure-related technical evaluations, reports, and systems analysis with recommendations.
• Quality assurance of IT infrastructure, overall systems standards (both on-premise and cloud).
• Be the Technical Owner on assigned projects and developments.
• Manage vendor and contractor relationships on projects and act as key supplier liaison regarding infrastructure.
• Participate or lead special project work as appropriate and as required.