IT Manager - Johannesburg at Giesecke+Devrient

• Analyse departmental needs, identify vulnerabilities, and boost productivity, efficiency, and accuracy to inform business decisions
• Ensure network components work together seamlessly to meet business needs, using their full range of capabilities.
• Analyse processes, technologies, and vendors continually to find areas for improvement
• Prepare cost–benefit analyses when upgrades are necessary, and monitor vendors to ensure that they’re offering the best-possible service and value for business needs
• Train employees to use software and hardware; troubleshoot issues and provide technical support when needed.
• Identify critical skills within the IT department. Formulate and implement succession planning with your team to ensure business continuity.
• Develop and execute disaster planning and maintain data backups.
• Comply to PCI industry standards/Internal Policies. Perform PCI audits, ensure that site complies to logical PCI requirements.
• Provide IT support to all users within the business unit as well as external business unit.
• Provide weekly/monthly reports as and when needed to line manager.
• Handle business-critical IT tasks and systems administration
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies, hardware, and software
• Track and maintain hardware and software inventory.
• Take responsibility for projects and solutions within the larger business initiative.

MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree or Post Qualification in Information Technology or Computer Sciences or equivalent.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 5 years or more professional market related experience in similar role.
• 1 years of experience leading a high-performing team.
• Understanding/working knowledge of programming languages(SQL) and operating systems (ex: Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory,Win10,Windows server 2016/2019), current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, and systems performance monitoring
• Expertise in implementing, configuring, and testing IT solutions.