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Infrastructure Architect

Job Type: Contract
Location: Woodmead, Gauteng
Posted: 29 July 2025

The position is for a senior Infrastructure & Cloud Architect responsible for designing, modernizing, and securing enterprise-grade infrastructure across data centers, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The role emphasizes high-availability, regulatory compliance, security-by-design, and automation, particularly in financial services or fintech contexts.



Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Architecture & Planning:

  • Define and maintain target-state infrastructure across data centers, cloud, and edge.
  • Lead modernization initiatives (virtualization, hyperconverged systems, containerization).
  • Create blueprints for compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and networking.
  • Align strategy with enterprise architecture principles and SLAs.

Cloud & Hybrid Enablement:

  • Drive hybrid/multi-cloud strategies (AWS, Azure, private clouds).
  • Architect secure infrastructure-as-code pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, etc.
  • Design cloud landing zones, VPCs, identity federation, and interconnect strategies.
  • Ensure observability, cost governance, and elasticity for cloud workloads.

Security, Resilience & Compliance:

  • Integrate security-by-design, micro-segmentation, zero-trust, and encryption.
  • Architect HA/DR solutions and ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, and local regulations.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity teams for risk assessments and secure deployment.

Governance & Collaboration:

  • Participate in Architecture Review Boards and ensure infrastructure compliance.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, security, operations, and vendor partners.
  • Maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, and runbooks.


Non-negotiable

  • Cloud Platforms & Services
  • Infrastructure & Virtualization
  • Automation & DevOps Tools
  • Security & Compliance
  • Enterprise Architecture & Governance
  • Optional / Desirable Technologies

Minimum Requirement

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Network Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Deliver infrastructure blueprints aligned with enterprise architecture within 90 days.
  • Enable cloud readiness for legacy workloads and automate deployment.
  • Deploy observability across critical systems and maintain SLAs.
  • Ensure security compliance and integrate infrastructure with SIEM/SOAR tools.


 

 

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