Current Vacancies at e-Merge IT Recruitment

Requirements:

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Rust)
• Strong understanding of software development principles, algorithms, data structures, and design patterns
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles
• Linux and IT troubleshooting skills
• Experience with RESTful APIs and service-oriented architectures
• Ability to interpret business needs and implement solutions
• Ability to work independently and take initiative
• Self-motivated and able to work in a team
• Commitment to delivering high-quality work on time
• Experience in IT infrastructure or application operations
• Experience working with enterprise network technologies (e.g. IP networks, routing, switching etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Experience with IT orchestration & automation solutions, (e.g. Rundeck, Ansible)
• Experience with front-end technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular)

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Requirements:

• Commitment to infrastructure as code
• Automation
• TDD (Test-Driven Development)
• BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development)
• Key Skills (or equivalent):
• Building CLI Tools
• Building Python Libraries
• Python Unit Testing
• Using Public Cloud Services
• Java Exposure
• Restful services
• CI/CD
• Understanding of Agile ways of working
• Strong Debugging skills
• MongoDB Exposure
• AWS services (e.g., SNS, SQS, S3, ECS, Lambda, KMS, Secret Manager, CloudWatch, CDK, IAM)
• TypeScript, NodeJS
• Atlassian APIs
• Typescript

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Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with network staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes
• Work with executive team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals, and to identify and resolve business systems issues
• Conduct research on software and systems products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts
• Document procedures
• Communicate with stakeholders to identify what they want a system to accomplish
• Develop system designs, and then use modelling techniques to evaluate how they might perform in the real world
• Deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems
• Install, configure and test hardware, operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Create, test and maintain backup and recovery policy and procedures
• Test system to ensure that it accomplishes what it is supposed to
• Conduct training and upskilling on new reports and or self-service analytics

Qualifications and Experience:

• Min 7 – 10 years’ Experience as a System Engineer
• Red Hat RHCE certification is highly desirable
• Linux/Unix Kernel experience
• Solaris a massive PLUS 
• Knowledge of web components such as Apache, Tomcat is essential.
• High Availability / Clustering technologies is highly desirable
• Storage technologies (like SAN, multipathing, iSCSI, LVM)
• Networking concepts and protocols
• LDAP, Kerberos, Samba, Active Directory
• Container technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of Load Balancing devices is highly desirable
• Cloud certification (Azure / AWS) will be an advantage
• VMware vRealize Operations certification will be an advantage but not essential

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Minimum Experience Level and Qualification

• NQF Level 7 qualification
• 5 – 7 years experience in an IT environment of which at least 2 years in a senior role from feeding career streams and at least 3 to 5 years specialisation in the specific technology
• 5 years Technical Experience (Message Queuing Administration)
• 2 years IBM MQ system administration

Working Knowledge

• Z/OS Operating System
• IBM MQ V9 and above
• IBM MQ Systems Administration
• The IBM MQ Appliance M2001/M2002/M2003
• TCP/IP, MQIPT termination in DMZ
• Azure Essentials
• AWS Essentials
• IBM Cloud Pack for Integration (CP4I)
• MQ Monitoring Products
• JCL
• VSAM
• TSO
• SDSF
• Containers on OpenShift
• Scripting Languages (YAML)
• Orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Automation and automated deployments
• Sound knowledge and understanding of MQ administration
• Security standard and protocols (SSL)
• Understanding and experience across multiple operating systems/platforms

Preferred certifications:

• IBM MQ System Administration V9 and above would be advantageous
• Azure / AWS cloud certifications would be advantageous

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Essential Skills You Will Need to Land an Interview:

• C#
• ASP.NET
• T-SQL and SQL Server
• HTML/CSS
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• Ajax
• SOLID principles

Advantageous Skills:

• Angular
• Web API
• Visual Basic
• TDD
• Agile SCRUM methodology
• Version control

Are You Qualified?

• Relevant qualification (Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar)
• 4+ years software development experience