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Durban: Principal IT Infrastructure and Network Engineer

Durban: Principal IT Infrastructure and Network Engineer

Posted on 2025-09-04 00:00:00

Employer Unspecified
Category IT / Computing / Software
Location eThekwini  / Durban

Job Summary

Principal Engineer – IT Infrastructure and Network JOB PURPOSE STATEMENT The Principal Engineer plays a pivotal role in providing technical leadership and guidance to ensure the alignment of strategies and services with the objectives of our customers, the company, and regulatory standards. This position is charged with the responsibility of overseeing high-impact, complex, time-sensitive, or critical challenges and orchestrating cross-departmental collaboration and execution to achieve successful outcomes. As a Principal Engineer, you are entrusted with leading the development of innovative technical methods, techniques, and strategies in line with our business plans. Your industry-recognised expertise positions you as a mentor and influencer, offering guidance and knowledge transfer to technical staff within your specialised discipline. Duties & Responsibilities Technical Ability and Escalations – 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 identifies opportunities to reuse or generalise existing services and product features – Exposes technology and organisational needs throughout the field. – Solves technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for their customers and peers. – Interfaces with Senior Management and enables techs to engage on department-level aspects of larger initiatives – Looks for innovation opportunities between several teams – Proposes initial technical implementation to support architectural changes – Ensures company-wide goals are aligned across the technical team – Provides 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 – Exposes the work of the technical team and their business impact internally – Knowledgeable in all specialties practiced within the company – Provides clear and effective guidance for technical approaches to accomplish certification of designs by employing methodologies that bring the greatest overall value to the company – Provides technical review and approval of technical designs, especially those that are of high risk or new technology – Establishes and maintains 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) Training and Development of Staff – Monitor and assess the performance of the technical team and provide feedback to Senior Management for growth and learning opportunities – Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice and guidance to engineers and service staff – Provide technical leadership and mentoring of technical staff – Partner with management and HR to assist in recruiting, hiring, training, and employee performance evaluations – Assist with identifying new and existing talent to be introduced to the business Project Management – Lead and manage technical projects from conception to completion as and when required – Align with the business technical methods, approaches, and products that meet the solution requirement – Take a leading role in projects that require thought leadership and guidance – Ensure we are on track regarding project tasks, providing assistance where required to project managers – Provides input and guidance during all phases of programs to solve challenging technical issues – &n

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Durban: Principal IT Infrastructure and Network Engineer

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Posted on 2025-08-05 00:00:00

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