IT Infrastructure Manager

The IT Infrastructure Manager will be responsible and accountable for leading the management and delivery of the infrastructure strategy for the group, including Sunslots and Sunbet. The strategy should include services relating to data centres, network connectivity, unified communication and collaboration, cloud services, server & storage. The manager will also be responsible for managing the group infrastructure budget and ensure optimisation of spend both capex and opex across the group.

The IT Infrastructure Manager will also be responsible and have oversight to keep the related infrastructure at acceptable performance levels, available and stable through preventative maintenance, proactive monitoring, upgrade and addressing obsolescence in a manner that is easy, appropriate, reliable and secure in line with business and regulatory requirements. The role will also focus on building and enabling solid and engaged IT infrastructure talent to support and innovative for progressive IT operation.

This role will be required to ensure all practices are in line with policy, frameworks and tools based on researched leading and industry practice, technical solutions, specialised projects and innovation enabling and supporting the business operations in achieving their objectives.

Key Performance Areas:

• Understand the business strategies and ensure alignment of IT key focus areas and develop an infrastructure roadmap to meet the business needs.
• Design and implement and infrastructure strategy that ensures the sustainability and future state of Sun IT
• Oversee the development, planning and delivery of the Sun International policies, standards and tools with a focus on key network, application and infrastructure tools to be implemented to effectively support the operation in various areas of the business
• Oversee that systems, processes and testing is in place to protect sensitive information, ensure that these are clearly defined, communicated, and well understood and included in operational prioritization and planning.
• Provide guidance and timely recovery following the occurrence of an outage and / or network disruptions which result in the partial or complete disruption of business operations support
• Oversee the management of IT audits to ensure correct governance over the use of technology and the protection of data, including controls to meet audit requirements, system access management, quarterly reviews and new employee hires and moves.
• Accountable for developing and managing the budget and expense management for the portfolio
• Relationship agreements with key suppliers, business partners and sponsors are built, negotiated and managed to achieve the business objectives and leverage new opportunities and joint initiatives
• Conduct proactive investigations and analyses into potential technology requirements and deliver an IT infrastructure to support current and future business products, and processes among other tasks.

Education:

• BTech or equivalent
• CompTIA Network+ / Server+ Certifications an advantage

Experience:

• 13 - 15 years experience in IT Infrastructure networks, operating systems, servers and storage.
• Demonstratable knowledge of servers, storage area networks, data networks, virtualization and operating systems
• Demonstrable understanding of Project Management
• Working knowledge of clouded solutions

Skills

• Business & Financial Acumen
• Technology infrastructure methodologies
• Testing methodologies and practices
• Risk and Project management
• Vendor and contracts management
• Microsoft, Cisco and VMware
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Analysing and collaborating
• Creating and improving
• Sourcing information and taking ownership
• Applying expertise and technology
• Responding with urgency
• Team management

Information :

• Company : Sun International
• Position : IT Infrastructure Manager
• Location : Sandton, Gauteng
• Country : ZA