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Managed Services Engineer

Mimecast


Job Location:

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 2 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 30 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Managed Services Engineer

At Mimecast our people are our greatest asset. We are driven by a shared commitment to excellence a deep care for our customers and a culture that celebrates winning together. Our teams bring high levels of self-motivation take personal accountability for their actions and instinctively find practical solutions to complex challenges. We take pride in delivering top-class customer service because at Mimecast we strive to win and we celebrate our success together.

About the position

As a Mimecast Managed Services Engineer you will be working with our customers in a post-sales environment delivering an excellent level of managed services to customers focused on key areas of the Mimecast product suite.

You will work with customers of varying sizes and you can expect to be working with customers from across the globe.

You will continuously work with customers to support and optimise the Mimecast products to a high standard to achieve the best customer satisfaction scores. While supporting customers engage with various internal Mimecast teams to ensure that technical challenges are handled quickly and appropriately.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and professional individual with in-depth technical abilities as well as commercial acumen and relationship building skills for both internal and external application.

This role will be based in our office in Cape Town South Africa but will report into our Professional Services team and support our customers globally. To enable Mimecast to best serve all our customers this role will require you to work as part of a shift pattern.

What Youll Do:
  • Autonomously analyse events and identify security threats and scams using the Mimecast and 3rd party tools.
  • Maintain and present to customer regularly scheduled reports
  • Maintaining and building up valuable and long-lasting customer relationships
  • Handle cases and phone calls as appropriate
  • Act as a primary contact for the customer with support questions for products in the scope of Mimecast managed services.
  • Monitor Customer features and provide details back to the customer
  • Escalation and tracking of issues raised within Mimecast and tracking of feature requests raised with Mimecast Product Development
  • Engage with cross functional teams to meet customer needs.
  • Assist customers with the successful implementation and adoption of Mimecast products including but not restricted to Brand Exploit Protect (BEP) and DMARC Analyser.
  • Provide exceptional support to Mimecast customers partners resellers and internal staff
  • Cover our customers globally between the hours of 6am 10pm as part of a regular shift pattern
What Youll Bring:
  • Experience managing customer facing implementations of 3rd party SaaS and IT services
  • Experience with Microsoft Google Apps or other email platforms
  • Good understanding of internet fundamentals DNS network routing firewalls and email delivery
  • Experience with Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory or other email platforms
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills that can be used to explain complex technical topics in a clear and straight forward manner
  • Detail oriented individual that enjoys working with customers and the challenge of technical troubleshooting
  • Experience of working with globally diverse customers advantageous
Qualifications
  • Qualification in Information Technology (A N and MSCA or higher) preferred but not essential
  • Cybersecurity experience is a plus but not a requirement
  • Knowledge of email authentication techniques as SPF DKIM and DMARC
  • Experience with the general IT administration and support of Microsoft Exchange Lotus Notes Domino or other e-mail systems

Join our Managed Services team to accelerate your career journey. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast offers formal and on-the-job learning opportunities maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week because working together in person:

  • Fosters a culture of collaboration communication performance and learning
  • Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
  • Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm
  • Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

The base salary range for this position is ZAR plus benefits. This range represents the minimum and maximum new hire compensation for this role. The position may also be eligible for incentive plans and additional benefits in accordance with company policy and local regulations. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location with individual compensation also dependent on factors such as qualifications experience and skills. Final offers will reflect these considerations and may vary accordingly.

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Belonging at Mimecast

Cybersecurity is a community effort. Thats why were committed to building an inclusive diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone unless theyre a cybercriminal of course.

Were proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and wed encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race age religion sexual orientation gender identity ability marital status nationality or any other protected characteristic wont affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks conducted in accordance with local law.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.


Required Experience:

IC


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