IT Manager (Mid-Sized Company) – Experienced

When the network goes down at this university IT department in Centurion, you're the one who brings it back. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Home base is an university IT department on the Centurion side of Gauteng. You'll start with a short induction before working on your own.

• Apply monthly patches to servers and network devices
• Manage users, groups and conditional access in Entra ID
• Build and maintain virtual machines on Hyper-V, VMware or Azure
• Review security logs and investigate suspicious sign-ins
• Configure switches, VLANs, VPNs and firewall rules
• Plan hardware refreshes and licence renewals with a budget
• Handle access requests and keep records that support POPIA compliance

• Solid TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall knowledge
• Clear change management and documentation habits
• Scripting in PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Degree or diploma in IT, plus relevant certifications
• Willing to do standby and after-hours maintenance

• Standby allowance and overtime for maintenance windows
• Medical aid and provident fund
• Company laptop, phone and home internet allowance

• Be ready to talk through an outage you fixed, step by step; it's a common interview question.
• Group your CV skills by area, such as networking, cloud, security and scripting, so the tech reviewer finds them fast.