INFRASTRUCTURE & VIRTUALISATION ENGINEER

Permanent

Ref #18968-TJ

tracycv@pcs-sa.co.za
Employer Description
An MSP, MSSP, and Enterprise ISP delivering tailored ICT solutions across infrastructure, networking, cloud, software development, and security.
Job Description
  • Support and maintain virtualisation platforms, with Proxmox as the primary environment
  • Monitor hypervisor health, cluster performance, storage utilisation, and resource availability
  • Perform VM provisioning and lifecycle management
  • Assist with cluster operations, host monitoring, HA environments, and capacity planning
  • Troubleshoot hypervisor-related performance and operational issues

Virtual Machine Deployment & Migration

  • Provision virtual machines
  • Configure CPU, RAM, storage, networking, tagging, and VM templates
  • Assist with customer and internal VM migrations, including VMware to Proxmox migrations
  • Support cutover planning and migration execution with minimal downtime

Backup & Recovery

  • Monitor and maintain backup health across:
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Nakivo Backup Server
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Nakivo Backup Server

Veeam Backup & Replication

Nakivo Backup Server

  • Investigate failed backup jobs and restore issues
  • Monitor backup storage utilisation and retention compliance
  • Assist with VM-level restore operations when required
  • Support backup optimisation and repository maintenance

Storage & Platform Maintenance

  • Monitor storage pools, storage health, and disk utilisation
  • Assist with performance optimisation and infrastructure tuning
  • Support platform maintenance, including:
  • Proxmox updates
  • VMware ESXi / vCenter system updates
  • Firmware updates
  • Repository clean-up
  • Host performance optimisation

Infrastructure Support & Client Environments

  • Support customer-hosted infrastructure environments from the virtualisation layer upward
  • Assist with infrastructure stability, uptime, and platform readiness

Network Support

  • Monitor network dashboards for alerts, outages, and performance issues
  • Perform basic network diagnostics, including:
  • Ping
  • Traceroute
  • DNS checks
  • Endpoint connectivity testing
  • Troubleshoot connectivity issues and identify whether faults are local, infrastructure-related, or upstream
  • Escalate advanced routing or core network issues to senior network engineers

Documentation & Operations

  • Host configurations
  • VM deployment procedures
  • Migration plans
  • Backup processes
  • Maintenance procedures
Qualifications
  • Tertiary qualification in IT, Infrastructure, Systems Administration, or related field
  • Relevant VMWare & Infrastructure Certification
Skills

Minimum of 5 years experience

  • Proxmox VE
  • VMware / ESXi / vCenter
  • Virtual Machine Provisioning & Lifecycle Management
  • Backup Monitoring & Restore Operations
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Nakivo Backup
  • Storage Monitoring & Capacity Management
  • Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Hypervisor Maintenance
  • Infrastructure Troubleshooting
  • Technical Documentation
  • Ticket Management in a client-facing support environment

Advantageous Experience

Experience in any of the following would be highly beneficial:

  • Ceph
  • ZFS
  • Storage replication
  • Cluster management
  • Datacentre infrastructure
  • Infrastructure migrations
  • Networking diagnostics and connectivity troubleshooting
  • MSP or managed infrastructure environments
Salary/Package
Highly negotiable (Experience & qualifications Driven)
Benefits

Medical Insurance

Retirement Fund

Job Post Expiration
2026-08-12

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