Senior Infrastructure & Data Centre Engineer

About the role

1-grid is a fast‑growing web‑hosting company in Cape Town looking for a senior professional to lead its data‑centre operations. This on‑site role ensures high availability, security and scalability of hosting and colocation services for its customers.

Key responsibilities

• Manage daily data‑centre operations, guaranteeing 24/7/365 service availability and compliance with SLAs.
• Oversee critical infrastructure such as power, cooling, fire suppression, cabling, racks and physical security.
• Plan and execute hardware procurement, installation, migration, de‑commissioning and lifecycle management.
• Lead incident, change and problem management processes, acting as the escalation point for critical outages.
• Maintain vendor relationships, monitor performance against contracts and collaborate with internal teams.

Required profile

• Diploma or degree in IT, Engineering, Facilities Management or related field; relevant certifications (e.g., CDCP, CDCS, ITIL, ISO 27001) are advantageous.
• 8‑10 years of experience in data‑centre operations within a hosting environment, including hardware procurement and team leadership.

Required skills

• Data‑centre infrastructure design and management (power, cooling, redundancy models N+1, 2N).
• Servers, storage, networking, virtualization and hosting platforms.
• Asset inventory, lifecycle management and procurement processes.
• Advanced technical troubleshooting for network and server hardware.