Overview
Data Center Engineering Team Lead Jobs in Brackenfell at Shoprite Holdings Ltd
The purpose of a Data Centre Engineering Lease Engineer is to design, implement and optimise data centre infrastructure solutions across leased environments by ensuring high availability, resilience, cost efficiency, and alignment to business and technical requirements, while supporting lifecycle management, vendor engagement, and infrastructure performance.
- Analyse infrastructure environments across compute, storage, virtualisation, and Unix platforms to
ensure performance and resilience
- Review architecture designs and recommend improvements aligned to business and technical
requirements
- Monitor platform health, capacity, and utilisation to support scalability and efficiency
- Document standards, configurations, and engineering practices to ensure consistency
- Improve lifecycle management practices through continuous review and optimisation
Leadership & Operational Support
- Monitor team activities and support prioritisation to ensure timely delivery of work
- Diagnose operational issues and support resolution across engineering domains
- Review workloads and recommend improvements to resource utilisation and efficiency
- Support escalation handling by investigating complex incidents and recommending solutions
- Document processes and improve operational practices to enhance stability and performance
Backup, Recovery & Continuity
- Analyse backup and recovery environments to ensure data protection and reliability
- Monitor recovery objectives and test disaster recovery processes to validate readiness
- Diagnose recovery failures and resolve issues to improve resilience
- Review continuity processes and recommend improvements aligned to business needs
- Document recovery procedures and support ongoing optimisation
Business Engagement & Solution Delivery
- Analyse business and application requirements to support infrastructure solution design
- Recommend scalable and supportable infrastructure configurations
- Support delivery of projects, migrations, and infrastructure initiatives
- Review solution performance and improve alignment to business expectations
- Work collaboratively to support integrated, cross-functional solution delivery
Vendor & Cost Optimisation
- Monitor vendor performance and support service delivery against agreed standards
- Analyse vendor solutions and recommend improvements or alternatives
- Support cost optimisation initiatives through infrastructure and service reviews
- Review procurement inputs and document recommendations for decision-making
- Improve vendor engagement practices to enhance service quality and efficiency
A relevant IT Qualification
+5 years’ experience in data centre infrastructure engineering, operations or similar – (essential).
Experience with virtualisation, storage, Unix/Linux and backup technologies with the necessary Qualifications – (essential).
Experience working with vendors and managed service providers – (beneficial).
2 year leadership experience (beneficial)
Exposure to leased data centre environments and infrastructure optimisation – (beneficial).
Our Group is committed to creating, embracing, and preserving a diverse workplace that values the unique talents, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities that enrich our organisation. A place where everyone matters and feels included.
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally.
Please take note that by responding to this application and providing your personal information, you confirm your express and informed consent for Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd and all its subsidiaries and affiliates companies to process your personal information for the Company to consider your application for this position. All Personal Information which you provide to the Company will be used and/or retained only for the purposes for which it is collected, whereafter it will be permanently destroyed. Your information is only retained if it is required by law or where you have given consent to us to retain such information for an extended period.
If you don’t hear from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful. Any personal information collected as part of your application will be destroyed, securely, in accordance with South African legislation.
Title: Data Center Engineering Team Lead
Company: Shoprite Holdings Ltd
Location: Brackenfell
