Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Cape Town | Permanent | Hybrid environment (the infrastructure, not just the working arrangement)

Do you have strong opinions about Conditional Access policies? Have you ever looked at a “temporary fix” and thought, that’s a future problem with my name on it? Then you may be the person we’re looking for.

We’re a global business with a hybrid infrastructure and identity environment spanning Entra ID, Active Directory, Azure, Microsoft 365, on-premise systems and a healthy selection of SaaS platforms. We need a Senior Associate to help keep all of it fast, secure and resilient, whatever it’s running on.

What you’ll be doing

• Running the day-to-day of our global hybrid infrastructure and identity platform, keeping it up, secure and performing
• Building and maintaining identity security controls: Conditional Access, MFA, PIM and authentication methods
• Helping guide our gradual move from traditional Active Directory to cloud-native Entra ID (it’s a journey, and we’d like company)
• Providing 3rd and 4th line support for the problems that have already outsmarted everyone else
• Spotting better ways of doing things, evaluating new tech and then actually implementing it
• Working with our global IT team, external partners and the occasional end user who just needs to be told to try turning it off and on again

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of hands-on sysadmin or infrastructure experience
• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft stack, cloud and on-prem
• A solid grasp of enterprise identity and access management, including RBAC, least privilege and privileged identity management
• Experience with Entra ID (Entra Connect, SSO, Enterprise Applications, hybrid identity), Azure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Windows Server, AD, DNS, IIS and SQL
• Scripting and infrastructure-as-code skills in PowerShell, KQL and Terraform
• Familiarity with Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Defender, Mimecast and networking basics
• Good troubleshooting instincts, and the sense to call in backup when it’s warranted

Bonus points for: an IT-related qualification, vendor certifications, and financial services experience.

What you’re like

You’re self-motivated and don’t need hand-holding. You bring solutions, not just a list of what’s broken. You’re personable, you communicate clearly, and you’d rather fix something properly than patch it and hope. You’re also happy to roll up your sleeves out of hours when something service-affecting needs attention. We’ll keep those moments to a minimum, but servers have no respect for a 5pm finish.

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.