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Urgent! Infrastructure Architect Job Opening In City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality – Now Hiring Paracon



Job description

Paracon, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Infrastructure Architect

The position is for a senior Infrastructure & Cloud Architect responsible for designing, modernizing, and securing enterprise-grade infrastructure across data centers, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

The role emphasizes high-availability, regulatory compliance, security-by-design, and automation, particularly in financial services or fintech contexts.

Key Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure Architecture & Planning: Define and maintain target-state infrastructure across data centers, cloud, and edge.

  • Lead modernization initiatives (virtualization, hyperconverged systems, containerization).

  • Create blueprints for compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and networking.

  • Align strategy with enterprise architecture principles and SLAs.
  • Design cloud landing zones, VPCs, identity federation, and interconnect strategies.

  • Ensure observability, cost governance, and elasticity for cloud workloads.

  • Security, Resilience & Compliance: Integrate security-by-design, micro-segmentation, zero-trust, and encryption.

  • Architect HA/DR solutions and ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, and local regulations.

  • Collaborate with cybersecurity teams for risk assessments and secure deployment.

  • Governance & Collaboration: Participate in Architecture Review Boards and ensure infrastructure compliance.

  • Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, security, operations, and vendor partners.

  • Maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, and runbooks.

  • Automation & DevOps Tools
  • Security & Compliance

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Network Engineering, or equivalent experience.

  • Deliver infrastructure blueprints aligned with enterprise architecture within 90 days.

  • Enable cloud readiness for legacy workloads and automate deployment.

  • Deploy observability across critical systems and maintain SLAs.
  • Ensure security compliance and integrate infrastructure with SIEM/SOAR tools.

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Contract

Job function

  • Quality Assurance, Information Technology, and Accounting/Auditing

Industries

  • Telecommunications and IT Services and IT Consulting

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