Infrastructure & Virtualisation Engineer

About the role

Our client is seeking an Infrastructure & Virtualisation Engineer to join their engineering team in Centurion, with the option to work from Gqeberha or Claremont. The role focuses on maintaining and enhancing virtualised environments, ensuring reliability, performance, and continuous improvement across customer‑hosted infrastructures.

Key responsibilities

• Support and maintain virtualisation platforms, primarily Proxmox, monitoring hypervisor health, cluster performance and storage utilisation.
• Provision, configure and manage the lifecycle of virtual machines for internal and customer projects.
• Assist with high‑availability (HA) cluster operations, host monitoring and capacity planning.
• Perform VM migrations, including VMware‑to‑Proxmox transitions, with minimal downtime.
• Monitor and troubleshoot backup jobs using Veeam Backup & Replication and Nakivo Backup Server, and execute VM‑level restores.
• Maintain storage pools, optimise performance and carry out platform updates for Proxmox, VMware ESXi, vCenter and firmware.

Required profile

• Hands‑on experience with virtualisation and infrastructure operations.
• Strong problem‑solving skills for hypervisor, storage and backup issues.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with client‑hosted environments.

Required skills

• Proxmox
• VMware (ESXi, vCenter)
• Veeam Backup & Replication
• Nakivo Backup Server
• Virtual machine provisioning and lifecycle management
• High‑availability (HA) cluster administration
• Backup management and recovery
• Storage health monitoring and optimisation