Senior Windows & Cloud Engineer

Are you a highly skilled infrastructure and cloud professional with a passion for designing, managing, and optimizing enterprise technology environments? We are seeking an experienced Senior Windows & Cloud Engineer to join our IT Operations – Cloud & Software team based in Randburg. In this pivotal role, you will provide expert-level technical leadership, engineering excellence, and operational support across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Entra , Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS, enterprise networking, and hybrid cloud platforms.

You will be responsible for maintaining the stability, security, and performance of critical infrastructure services while leading the resolution of complex technical incidents and implementing proactive measures to prevent future issues. Working closely with development, network, security, and database teams, as well as technology vendors and business stakeholders, you will play a key role in driving infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, operational efficiency, and service reliability.

The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong problem-solving, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills to support the organisation's evolving technology landscape. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to strategic technology initiatives while ensuring the delivery of secure, resilient, and scalable cloud and infrastructure solutions in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

• Design, implement, operate and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Entra , Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS and hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
• Engineer Azure compute, networking, storage, governance, monitoring, backup and disaster-recovery services.
• Maintain secure, resilient identity, authentication, directory, server and DNS services across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience supporting SharePoint Server on-premises, including farm administration, patching, upgrades, service applications, search services, SQL dependencies, authentication, certificates and infrastructure troubleshooting

• Own complex production incidents from triage through evidence-based root-cause analysis, remediation and prevention.
• Correlate application, operating-system, identity, DNS, network, firewall, storage, virtualisation and cloud telemetry.
• Lead P1 / Severity 1 technical bridges, vendor escalations and defensible incident reporting

• Troubleshoot TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, load balancing, VPNs, private connectivity and cross-platform network dependencies.
• Lead Azure security remediation through Microsoft Defender for Cloud, ensuring that identified vulnerabilities, security recommendations and configuration risks are appropriately prioritised and addressed.
• Partner with the external SOC to manage and remediate security exposures, reduce infrastructure risk and improve Tracker’s overall security posture.
• Apply least privilege, hardening, patching, certificate, vulnerability-remediation, audit and change-governance controls

• Participate in and, where appropriate, lead Azure, data centre, domain, server, hybrid integration, security and disaster-recovery work streams.
• Produce technical designs, implementation and rollback plans, risk assessments, architecture diagrams and operational documentation.
• Plan and test backup, recovery, high availability, failover and business-continuity capabilities.

• Automate repetitive operational, diagnostic and remediation tasks using advanced Power Shell…