53 Storage jobs in South Africa

Overview

The HCI and Storage Engineer will be primarily responsible for installing, monitoring, testing and maintaining both cloud and on-premise infrastructure solutions, with a specific emphasis on Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), VxRail, UNITY Storage and VNX(e) Hardware and software. This role provides specialised technical support and guidance through high-level analysis, diagnosis and problem-solving, ensuring that the HCI components of the infrastructure are optimised for efficient operations. In addition to HCI expertise, the HCI and Storage Engineer will play a crucial role in qualifying the product fit, overseeing the installation and implementing IT systems to meet client requirements. Your deep understanding of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and Storage will enable you to design, deploy and manage robust and scalable solutions that align with industry best practices and standards. Overall, this position requires a combination of technical proficiency in HCI and Storage infrastructure to deliver comprehensive and cutting-edge storage and Hyper-Converged infrastructure solutions for our clients.

• Matric Senior Certificate
• VMWare Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualisation 2024
• PowerEdge Operate
• PowerEdge Foundations V2
• Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions

3 – 5 Years’ Experience and professional knowledge in HCI, Storage, storage management tools, HCI Management Tools

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to coordinate work activities with remote teams
• Strong analytical and conceptualization skills (e.g., the ability to "join the dots", and communicate this at multiple levels)
• Working effectively within local and distributed teams
• Excellent planning, interpersonal, problem solving, leadership skills

• Responsible for installations, maintenance, corrective maintenance, monitoring the environment, testing, temporary resolutions and end-to-end ticket management.
• May be required to travel to the associated provinces when required.
• Attend meetings with the client and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for drawings, documentation, change requests, quality control and planning prior to the commencement of any works.
• Primarily utilised within the operational environment and may be used within the project environment.
• Standby availability may be required.

• Support the in-scope operating system, system management software and operating system utilities, including minor upgrades (such as a release upgrade).
• Manage the operating system configuration including initial configuration, modifying configuration files, system configuration documentation and access to system configuration files.
• Monitor and reduce operating system log files to prevent file systems from overfilling.
• Manage Operating System Processes (e.g., investigate continuously running system subtasks, or daemons), including refreshing processes as required, establishing start-up sequences, maintaining system clock synchronization, and changing process priorities as appropriate.
• Recommend operating system updates and configuration modification to the client’s IT Infrastructure Engineer, as required.
• Apply operating system patch updates, as required.
• Maintain tools for remote management and alert monitoring.
• Maintain operational support procedures.
• Maintain the hardware and software configuration information.
• Evaluate planned changes to the server environment and advise of any requirements to support such changes.
• Adhere to standard security processes and procedures.
• Provide health check and trending reports that include best practices as prescribed by the OEM.

• Manage incidents, problems, changes and other service requests pertaining to hardware, software and monitoring.
• Manage thresholds and alerts for usage of IT resources.
• Analyze performance service level breaches, alerts, trends and root causes to restore service.
• Track and tune proactively performance through trend and exception reporting to avoid possible service level breaches.
• Tune reactively to restore service for performance incidents and root causes.
• Provide corrective action to resolve system performance problems and provide recommendations to prevent possible future incidents.
• Recommend changes to maintain agreed upon system performance levels.
• Implement after hours’ changes as approved through a formal change management process.
• Define performance related metrics and data collection, summarization, and usage requirements.
• Collect, summarize and store performance data (Standard Performance Data Management).
• Define performance alert thresholds to support agreed upon service levels.
• Provide Standard Performance Reporting.
• Provide Ad hoc Performance Reporting for analysis of incidents to restore service.

The above job profile identifies the key areas of responsibility of the position and is not an all-encompassing description of duties and tasks. The job profile may be subject to review from time to time. The incumbent will be required to perform similar such duties and tasks in any area of HCI and Storage as may be designated by management from time to time. The incumbent will at all times be required to render the highest level of courtesy and service to Diopoint even where such service may fall beyond the main duties or scope of this position.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• IT Services and IT Consulting

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Discovery – Technology Services

Storage Administrator

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About The Storage Team ( Technology Services)

The storage role is within the Technology Services area that provides and supports the infrastructure for the South African group companies. The role will be based in South Africa and will report to the Technical Operations Manager for the purpose of servicing Discovery Holdings by ensuring the availability and stability of the storage environment. We are embarking on new TS strategic journey were will be embracing Infrastructure as Code and Cloud First.

Key Purpose

The storage administrator manages and supports the environment, as the company data storage grows and new hardware is purchased.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited

• Monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting of the Storage Environment administering infrastructure.
  Assisting in delivering storage-related projects for infrastructure
• Liaising with all departments in TS and technology teams across all companies
• Ensuring that the Storage environment achieves a 99.50% uptime SLA out site scheduled change windows
• Ensure that all storage-related ServiceNow calls are addressed within a 90% SLA

Personal Attributes and Skills

• You will be required to work RSA core business hours
• Knowledge and skill working with Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade Storage Area Network (SAN) Switches, Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, .) and Veritas InfoScale

Education and Experience

• Matric
• A certificate in Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous
• 5 years of experience working with Pure Flash Array, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

Storage Administrator

Business Unit: Discovery Central Services

Function: Information Technology

Date: 15 Oct 2025

Discovery – Technology Services

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast‑paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self‑driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

The storage role is within the Technology Services area that provides and supports the infrastructure for the South African group companies. The role will be based in South Africa and will report to the Technical Operations Manager for the purpose of servicing Discovery Holdings by ensuring the availability and stability of the storage environment. We are embarking on new TS strategic journey where we will be embracing Infrastructure as Code and Cloud First.

The storage administrator manages and supports the environment, as the company data storage grows and new hardware is purchased.

• Monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting of the Storage Environment administering infrastructure.
  Assisting in delivering storage‑related projects for infrastructure
• Liaising with all departments in TS and technology teams across all companies
• Ensuring that the Storage environment achieves a 99.50% uptime SLA out site scheduled change windows
• Ensure that all storage‑related ServiceNow calls are addressed within a 90% SLA

• You will be required to work RSA core business hours
• Knowledge and skill working with Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade Storage Area Network (SAN) Switches, Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, …) and Veritas InfoScale

• Matric
• A certificate in Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous
• 5 years of experience working with Pure Flash Array, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

Storage Administrator

Business Unit: Discovery Central Services

Function: Information Technology

Date: 15 Oct 2025

Discovery – Technology Services

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast‑paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self‑driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

The storage role is within the Technology Services area that provides and supports the infrastructure for the South African group companies. The role will be based in South Africa and will report to the Technical Operations Manager for the purpose of servicing Discovery Holdings by ensuring the availability and stability of the storage environment. We are embarking on new TS strategic journey where we will be embracing Infrastructure as Code and Cloud First.

The storage administrator manages and supports the environment, as the company data storage grows and new hardware is purchased.

• Monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting of the Storage Environment administering infrastructure.
  Assisting in delivering storage‑related projects for infrastructure
• Liaising with all departments in TS and technology teams across all companies
• Ensuring that the Storage environment achieves a 99.50% uptime SLA out site scheduled change windows
• Ensure that all storage‑related ServiceNow calls are addressed within a 90% SLA

• You will be required to work RSA core business hours
• Knowledge and skill working with Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade Storage Area Network (SAN) Switches, Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, …) and Veritas InfoScale

• Matric
• A certificate in Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous
• 5 years of experience working with Pure Flash Array, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining Storage, SAN, and Compute hardware by providing OEM good practices through designing, implementing, and deploying shared system resources, like disks and networking. Responsibilities include performance analysis and troubleshooting, data recovery strategies for critical systems, and data backup measures.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, contribute, and report on compliance to documented protocols to ensure contractual objectives are achieved.
• Maintain short-term and long-term Capacity and Availability goals to deliver on day-to-day services.
• Develop and partake in the policies, procedures, and organization capability to establish sufficient capacity for continuity and disaster recovery.
• Participate in any incident that leads to a disastrous event.
• Partake in annual disaster recovery testing as required and specified in the Contract.
• Contribute to GORT IT DR plans, policies, and strategies.
• Storage provisioning.
• Zoning.
• Firmware maintenance (SAN, Storage, Blade Chassis, Physical servers).
• Maintain HPE reporting integration (On-prem and Cloud).
• Hardware repairs.

• Grade 12.
• Undergraduate degree/diploma in IT or currently working towards completing a Degree/Diploma in IT.
• Various hardware vendor experience and certifications.
• ITIL certification.
• A+ and N+ Certification.
• Experience in IT Enterprise size DR, plan, implement and maintain.
• Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I, experience or certification.
• Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ II, experience or certification.
• Implementing MSA Storage Solutions, experience or certification.
• Brocade SAN Enterprise Experience, experience or certification.
• 5+ years’ experience in an Enterprise IT Environment.

• Systems and Systems Integration.
• Vendor Management.
• Managing 15 Petabytes.
• Technical lead for Plan, Build and Operate.
• HPE 3PAR (7000 series, 20800 series).
• HPE MSA.
• HPE Blade Chassis (9000 series, 7000 series).
• HPE Physical servers (Various models).
• SAN – Physical and Fabrics (Director Class, Blade Chassis switches).

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Annually

Our client, leaders in the Road Transport Solutions space, has a permanent venture for a Storage Specialist .

The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining Storage, SAN, and Compute hardware by providing OEM good practice through designing, implementing, and deploying shared system resources, such as disks and networking. Responsibilities include performance analysis, troubleshooting, data recovery strategies for critical systems, and data backup measures.

Minimum Requirements:

• Grade 12
• Undergraduate degree/diploma in IT or currently working towards completing a Degree/Diploma in IT
• Various hardware vendor experience and certifications
• ITIL certification
• A+ and N+ Certification
• 5+ years’ experience in an Enterprise IT Environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• IT Enterprise size DR, plan, implement and maintain
• Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I, experience or certified
• Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ II, experience or certified
• Implementing MSA Storage Solutions, experience or certified
• Brocade SAN Enterprise Experience, experience or certified

Knowledge and Experience:

• Systems and Systems Integration
• Managing 15 Petabytes
• Technical lead for Plan, Build and Operate
• HPE 3PAR (7000 series, 20800 series)
• HPE MSA
• HPE Physical servers (Various models)
• SAN – Physical and Fabrics (Director Class, Blade Chassis switches)

• Matric Senior Certificate
• VMWare Certified Professional Data Center Virtualisation 2024
• Huawei HCIA Storage
• Huawei HCIP Storage
• PowerEdge Operate
• PowerEdge Foundations V2
• Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions

• 3 5 Years Experience and professional knowledge in HCI, Storage, storage management tools, HCI Management Tools

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to coordinate work activities with remote teams
• Strong analytical and conceptualization skills (e.g., the ability to "join the dots", and communicate this at multiple levels)
• Working effectively within local and distributed teams
• Excellent planning, interpersonal, problem solving, leadership skills are required

• Responsible for installations, maintenance, corrective maintenance, monitoring the environment, testing, temporary resolutions managing tickets from end-to-end.
• May be required to travel to the associated provinces when required.
• Attend meetings with the client and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for drawings, documentation, change requests, quality control and planning prior to the commencement of any works.
• To be primarily utilized within the operational environment and may be used within the project environment
• Will be required to be on Standby

• Support the in-scope operating system, system management software and operating system utilities, including minor upgrades (such as a release upgrade)
• Manage the operating system configuration including initial configuration, modifying configuration files, system configuration documentation and access to system configuration files.
• Monitor and reduce operating system log files to prevent file systems from overfilling.
• Manage Operating System Processes (e.g., investigate continuously running system subtasks, or daemons) including refreshing processes as required, establishing start-up sequences, maintaining system clock synchronization, and changing process priorities as appropriate.
• Recommend operating system updates and configuration modification to the clients IT Infrastructure Engineer, as required.
• Apply operating system patch updates, as required.
• Maintain tools for remote management and alert monitoring.
• Maintain operational support procedures.
• Maintain the hardware and software configuration information.
• Evaluate planned changes to the server environment and advise of any requirements to support such changes.
• Adhere to standard security processes and procedures.
• Provide health check and trending reports that include best practices as prescribed by the OEM.

• Manage incidents, problems, changes and other service requests pertaining to hardware, software and monitoring.
• Manage thresholds and alerts for usage of IT resources.
• Analyze performance service level breaches, alerts, trends and root causes to restore service.
• Track and tune proactively performance through trend and exception reporting to avoid possible service level breaches.
• Tune reactively to restore service for performance incidents and root causes.
• Provide corrective action to resolve system performance problems and provide recommendations to prevent possible future incidents.
• Recommend changes to maintain agreed upon system performance levels.
• Implement after hours changes as approved through a formal change management process.
• Define performance related metrics and data collection, summarization, and usage requirements.
• Collect, summarize and store performance data (Standard Performance Data Management).
• Define performance alert thresholds to support agreed upon service levels.
• Provide Standard Performance Reporting.
• Provide Ad hoc Performance Reporting for analysis of incidents to restore service.

Job Title

Storage Engineer

Reporting Line

Operations and Service Sales Manager

Main Job Purpose

The HCI and Storage Engineer will be primarily responsible for installing, monitoring, testing and maintaining both cloud and on-premise infrastructure solutions, with a specific emphasis on Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), VxRail, UNITY Storage and VNX(e) Hardware and software

This role will involve providing specialised technical support and guidance through high-level analysis, diagnosis and problem-solving, ensuring that the HCI components of the infrastructure are optimised for efficient operations.

In addition to HCI expertise, the HCI and Storage Engineer will play a crucial role in qualifying the product fit, overseeing the installation and implementing IT systems to meet client requirements. Your deep understanding of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and Storage will enable you to design, deploy and manage robust and scalable solutions that align with industry best practices and standards.

Overall, this position requires a combination of technical proficiency in HCI and Storage infrastructure to deliver comprehensive and cutting-edge storage and Hyper converged infrastructure solutions for our clients.

Minimum Desired Qualifications

• Matric Senior Certificate
• VMWare Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualisation 2024
• Huawei HCIA Storage
• Huawei HCIP Storage
• PowerEdge Operate
• PowerEdge Foundations V2
• Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions

Minimum Desired Experience

3 – 5 Years' Experience and professional knowledge in HCI, Storage, storage management tools, HCI Management Tools

Minimum Desired Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to coordinate work activities with remote teams
• Strong analytical and conceptualization skills (e.g., the ability to "join the dots", and communicate this at multiple levels)
• Working effectively within local and distributed teams
• Excellent planning, interpersonal, problem solving, leadership skills are required.

LIST OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Responsible for installations, maintenance, corrective maintenance, monitoring the environment, testing, temporary resolutions managing tickets from end-to-end.
2. May be required to travel to the associated provinces when required.
3. Attend meetings with the client and other stakeholders.
4. Responsible for drawings, documentation, change requests, quality control and planning prior to the commencement of any works.
5. To be primarily utilized within the operational environment and may be used within the project environment
6. Will be required to be on Standby

Support Services

• Support the in-scope operating system, system management software and operating system utilities, including minor upgrades (such as a release upgrade)
• Manage the operating system configuration including initial configuration, modifying configuration files, system configuration documentation and access to system configuration files.
• Monitor and reduce operating system log files to prevent file systems from overfilling.
• Manage Operating System Processes (e.g., investigate continuously running system subtasks, or daemons) including refreshing processes as required, establishing start-up sequences, maintaining system clock synchronization, and changing process priorities as appropriate.
• Recommend operating system updates and configuration modification to the client's IT Infrastructure Engineer, as required.
• Apply operating system patch updates, as required.
• Maintain tools for remote management and alert monitoring.
• Maintain operational support procedures.
• Maintain the hardware and software configuration information.
• Evaluate planned changes to the server environment and advise of any requirements to support such changes.
• Adhere to standard security processes and procedures.
• Provide health check and trending reports that include best practices as prescribed by the OEM.

Performance Management

• Manage incidents, problems, changes and other service requests pertaining to hardware, software and monitoring.
• Manage thresholds and alerts for usage of IT resources.
• Analyze performance service level breaches, alerts, trends and root causes to restore service.
• Track and tune proactively performance through trend and exception reporting to avoid possible service level breaches.
• Tune reactively to restore service for performance incidents and root causes.
• Provide corrective action to resolve system performance problems and provide recommendations to prevent possible future incidents.
• Recommend changes to maintain agreed upon system performance levels.
• Implement after hours' changes as approved through a formal change management process.
• Define performance related metrics and data collection, summarization, and usage requirements.
• Collect, summarize and store performance data (Standard Performance Data Management).
• Define performance alert thresholds to support agreed upon service levels.
• Provide Standard Performance Reporting.
• Provide Ad hoc Performance Reporting for analysis of incidents to restore service.

NOTE

The above job profile identifies the key areas of responsibility of the position and is not all - encompassing description of duties and tasks. The job profile may be subject to review from time to time. The incumbent will be required to perform similar such duties and tasks in any area of HCI and Storage as may be designated by management from time to time. The incumbent will at all times be required to render the highest level of courtesy and service to Diopoint even where such service may fall beyond the main duties or scope of this position.

Discovery – Technology Services

Storage Administrator

About Discovery
Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About The Storage Team ( Technology Services)
The storage role is within the Technology Services area that provides and supports the infrastructure for the South African group companies. The role will be based in South Africa and will report to the Technical Operations Manager for the purpose of servicing Discovery Holdings by ensuring the availability and stability of the storage environment. We are embarking on new TS strategic journey were will be embracing Infrastructure as Code and Cloud First.

Key Purpose

The storage administrator manages and supports the environment, as the company data storage grows and new hardware is purchased.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited

• Monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting of the Storage Environment administering infrastructure. Assisting in delivering storage-related projects for infrastructure
• Liaising with all departments in TS and technology teams across all companies
• Ensuring that the Storage environment achieves a 99.50% uptime SLA out site scheduled change windows
• Ensure that all storage-related ServiceNow calls are addressed within a 90% SLA

Personal Attributes and Skills

• You will be required to work RSA core business hours
• Knowledge and skill working with Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade Storage Area Network (SAN) Switches, Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, .) and Veritas InfoScale

Education and Experience

• Matric
• A certificate in Pure FlashArray, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous
• 5 years of experience working with Pure Flash Array, Pure ActiveCluster, Pure FlashBlade, Dell PowerMax, Vast Data Platform, Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Brocade SAN Switches, Veritas InfoScale, Unix or Linux – advantageous

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.