Durban: IT Infrastructure and Network Engineer (DBN Hybrid) posted by Datafin

About the Role

Datafin is seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure and Network Engineer to join our team in Durban, South Africa. As a key member of our technical leadership, you will play a pivotal role in providing technical guidance and oversight to ensure the alignment of strategies and services. You will be responsible for leading cross-departmental collaboration and execution to achieve successful outcomes, as well as developing innovative technical methods, techniques, and strategies in line with business plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert service delivery to clients.
• Lead by example with administrative tasks such as ensuring logs are up to date and time is accounted for in systems as per the company policy.
• Oversee and manage the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions.
• Analyse technical challenges and develop solutions.
• Research and recommend new technologies, processes, and procedures.
• Proactively identify opportunities to reuse or generalise existing services and product features.
• Expose technology and organisational needs throughout the field.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for their customers and peers.
• Interface with Senior Management and enable techs to engage on department-level aspects of larger initiatives.
• Look for innovation opportunities between several teams.
• Propose initial technical implementation to support architectural changes.
• Ensure company-wide goals are aligned across the technical team.
• Provide a point of escalation for complex technical challenges.
• Attain a measurable impact on the work of the technical team.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders.
• Expose the work of the technical team and their business impact internally.
• Knowledgeable in all specialties practiced within the company.
• Provide clear and effective guidance for technical approaches to accomplish certification of designs by employing methodologies that bring the greatest overall value to the company.
• Provide technical review and approval of technical designs, especially those that are of high risk or new technology.
• Establish and maintain relationships with essential internal and external technical experts to ensure technical expertise is available and program requirements are being achieved.
• Develop and maintain Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans.
• Be aware of scope creep and ensure that work effort is aligned with quotes and services.
• Be an escalation point for Senior Engineers (L4).

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience in progressively responsible technical roles, including leadership positions.
• Senior experience in system design, architecture, and implementation.
• Proven track record of successful Project Management.
• Knowledge of best practices and secure design principles.

Qualifications

No formal education/certifications mentioned.