Virtualisation & Storage Operations Engineer

Investec • Sandton, Gauteng • Posted June 13, 2026

Position Overview

Description


The Virtualisation & Storage Operations Engineer (SRE Focus) is responsible for ensuring the stability, resilience, performance, and observability of the bank's enterprise compute and storage platforms across on-prem data centres, cloud IaaS, and virtualisation environments.

The engineer plays a critical role in supporting mission-critical banking workloads powering payments, trading systems, digital channels, authentication, and regulatory applications.

Key Responsibilities


Virtualisation Platform Operations

  • Provide operational support for:
  • VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi clusters

  • Azure AVS (Azure VMware Solution)

  • VM provisioning, lifecycle management, HA/DRS tuning

  • Hypervisor patching, firmware upgrades, compatibility checks
  • Troubleshoot performance issues (CPU, memory, ballooning, NUMA, I/O contention).

    • Storage Platform Operations

  • Manage day-to-d...