Careers at SITA SOC (Ltd)

Purpose of the job

• The role will be responsible to execute complex application development, maintenance projects and services and provide innovative solutions and products that resolve challenges of government service delivery. The Advance Software Developer will be responsible for guiding and executing the design, development, and execution of complex services and projects of ICT solutions, supervision of the software development team.

Key Responsibility Area

• Lead the development of functional requirements that articulate clear and concise project deliverables that are compatible with user expectations.
• Deliver feasibility and cost-benefit analysis, including choice of application architecture to enhance the overall application development process.
• Lead and execute complex software development and customization projects spanning multiple environments to ensure that it is successfully delivered.
• Lead and develop/ customize complex applications services solutions by studying information needs; consulting with clients, studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle using SITAs software development stack/ development framework.
• Lead and execute maintenance of integrated IT software components using SITAs software development stack/ development framework.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum: 3 – 4 year National Higher Diploma / National Degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science /Information Technology or relevant qualification equivalent to NQF Level 6. A post graduate qualification OR Bachelors Degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science /Information Technology or relevant equivalent NQF Level 7 OR 8 Will be an added advantage.
• Certification: Vendor certification for applications will be an added advantage. Information Systems, Technology and Engineering) or related field or Natural/Adabas training certificate.
• Experience: 7 years’ experience with full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including solution development, operational responsibility in a large corporate/public sector organisation. Of which 3 years should be a Senior Developer. 7 yrs experience in using the following technologies to develop with java or/and scala programming language.
• Web application technologies (servlets, JS, JSP, JSTL, HTML, CSS, Bootfaces,primefaces) Enterprise application technologies JPA, JTA, JMS, EJB etc.
• Web services technologies (JAX-RS, JAX-RPC, JAXR)
• Management and Security technologies (Security API) 4 years’ experience of data life cycle,Bigdata/Data analytics solutions, Apache Hadoop, Python, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Apache Hive, Jupyter Hub, Linux, Microsoft PowerBI, ETL/ELT/ETLT processes across various platforms.3 years’ experience in developing Artificial Intelligence solutions.

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Purpose of the job

• The job will be responsible to perform compliance and vulnerability assessments, execute activities related to the implementation, and maintenance of information security controls and services aligned to the cyber security framework and attend to all logged security incidents.

Key Responsibility Area

• Perform ongoing monitoring of information systems and assess threats and risks to information security.
• Coordinate security awareness and training programs to increase employees ' overall understanding, reaction time and the ability to envisage the company's potential safety and compliance requirements
• Perform compliance assessments and vulnerability assessments to ensure government and citizen information is secure
• Attend to all logged security incidents.
• Collaborate and partner with internal business representatives to recommend appropriate products so that the solutions are developed with relevant security system design specifications
• Execute activities related to the implementation, and maintenance of information security controls and services aligned to the cyber security framework, policies, standards and procedures
• Management and Administration of the PFMA act

Qualifications and Experience

• Required Qualification: 3 years National Diploma / National Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or Network Management or a relevant discipline NQF level 6 qualification.
• Certification: Security + or Microsoft Security Certification.
• Added Advantage: ITIL foundation and COBIT 5 Introduction Certified information system security professional (CISSP) or Certified Information Security Management (CISM).
• Experience: 3-5 years Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure or Information Security (IS) or application life cycle management which should include the following: Working knowledge of information technology security configurations on the LAN/WAN infrastructure. Understanding firewalls and switch management technology. Exposure to enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g.TOGAF; GWEA; MIOS). knowledge of governance processes and standards (e.g. ISO 27001/ 27002; COBIT; ITIL). Exposure to information system security technical standards (e.g.: SSL certificates, anti-virus protection, etc.). Knowledge of technical monitoring and administration of various technical security solutions e.g. Anti-malware Management, Email Security Management, Privileged Account Management, Microsoft Security and Azure Security (MFA, Defender, DLP, Bitlocker, Sentinel, Intune, etc.).