Current Vacancies at wePlace

Purpose: 

The DevOps engineer is responsible for actioning, leading and coordinating the activities of different teams to create and maintain our platform, shorten the software development cycle, increase the frequency of deployments, and allow for more dependable releases with synchronized environments.

• The DevOps engineer will work with various development teams to continually promote improvement in quality standards, procedures, integration, policies, best practices, CI/CD, test automation and monitoring.
• The DevOps engineer will oversee the DevOps process end to end, including backups, managing access, defining, and tracking DevOps KPI’s.
• Gain ownership and control over deployments and deployments.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the adoption of patterns and standards, building our library of repeatable solutions.
• Participate in project governance processes that support the review and sign off design documents.
• Working with your Product Family to identify and mitigate risks and issues, escalating as appropriate.
• Working closely with Third Party product vendors.
• Active participation in the architecture community, collaborating and building knowledge and expertise.
• Focus on end-to-end architecture for the overall solution provide the leadership for solution, integration, and data architecture.
• Responsible for Architecture deliverables, ensure understanding of Solution across all Epics and Tracks.
• Create and maintain end-to-end architecture artifacts including but not limited to reference and solution architecture documents, interface design document, process design document, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams and data models across the ecosystem.
• Review business requirements and collaborate with development and configuration teams to identify system impacts and estimates.
• Conduct and represent in Joint Application Design sessions as necessary during the design and integration phases.
• Lead the building of possible proof of concepts where it may be required.
• Provide through leadership on the implementation of requirements and solutions within the company and the broader Maziv Group of companies.
• Work closely with implementation and operations teams to ensure the correct implementation of solutions of the company.
• Work close with other architecture team members towards the building of solutions.

Qualifications / Experience: 

• 5+ years Architecture experience. Preferably in a telecoms environment.
• Experience in the building and architecting of solutions on the Salesforce platform.
• Experience in the building and architecting of solutions on modern cloud-based platforms – preferably AWS and Azure.
• Experience in the design and deployment of high-volume real-time solutions.
• Experience leading technical design discussions with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of leading-edge technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Architectures, etc.
• Suitable tertiary qualification.
• Salesforce certifications.
• Azure / AWS Cloud architect certifications.
• TOGAF certifications (preferred).

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Job Purpose: 

The Senior IPT (ISP) Engineer is the overall custodian for planning, implementation, and operation of the ISP network.

This will cover all requirements for ISP Core and Open access networks including Layer 2 and 3 switching and routing, MPLS, FTTH and Fixed line networks, BRAS, CGNAT, peering, content caching and public IPv4/IPv6 queries and providing support for network faults and issues raised by the NOC (Network Operations Centre) team.

Responsibilities:

• Scope ISP network requirements nationally. Including peering, Caching, NAT, BGP, PPPOE and Radius.
• Conduct high-level and low-level network planning.
• Develop methods of procedure and oversee implementation.
• Design, develop automated test cases for features of network management and automation product for ISP network.
• Understand feature impacts, identify test cases, and prepare plan to execute them.
• Understand real-world customer deployments and incorporate feedback into test cases.
• Analyse, reproduce, debug issues reported by internal and/or external customers promptly.
• Provide subject matter expertise on technical solutions.
• Manage vendor performances based on contractual obligations and quality objectives.
• Manage escalation of faults with vendors and communication with stakeholders during incidents.
• Participates in the development of goals, work plans, timelines, and implementation approaches.
• Support management team on national planning projects.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of overall experience with:
• Large service providers networks.
• FTTH and fixed line networks design and operations.
• Design, implementation/configuration, and support/operations of large network.
• 5+ years of experience with:
• Large OSPF networks - 50+ nodes - Design & Implementation.
• Large layer-2 networks - 500+ hosts.
• PPPoE and access technologies in networks of 1000+ subscribers.
• MPLS - Design & Implementation - VPLS/L2VPN, L3VPN/MP-BGP.
• Fibre optic networking in data centre environments
• Mixed multi-vendor Environments.
• At least five of the following equipment vendors: - Huawei Route & Switch - Arista - Mikrotik - Ciena - Juniper - Huawei GPON - Calix - Nokia GPON - Fortigate - Cisco NXOS.
• Open Access Networks -From either ISP (Internet Service Provider) or FNO (Fibre Network Operator) perspective.
• ISP Core Operations – including: - Peering Coordination and Internet Exchanges - Content Cache Infrastructure - eBGP Traffic Engineering Support management team on national planning projects.
• IPv4 & IPv6 network protocols.
• Troubleshooting and diagnosing user application performance issues - Speed & traffic throughput - Latency, jitter & user experience.

Additional Skills & Experience:

• Network security.
• Firewall administration.
• Fibre optic backhaul and transmission - Passive DWDM & CWDM - Optical link planning.
• Last mile fibre technology - Ethernet point-to-point - GPON and related passive technologies.
• Scripting & coding - BASH, Python, YAML, etc.
• Basic Linux systems administration.
• Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Service Architectures.
• Microsoft Azure Networking.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Networking.
• PRTG & SNMP monitoring tools.
• NetBox & inventory management tools.
• Huawei NCE.
• VMware / Proxmox.

Required Qualification, Skills and Experience

Minimum Qualification Indicator: 

• At least 2 years of tertiary education in an engineering or computer science field
• Network professional certifications

Minimum Experience Indicator: 

• Ten (10) years of experience in the network and telecommunications industry, in a Carrier / Mobile / Enterprise environment.
• Should be able to communicate & collaborate across the Enterprise (Cross functional seamless execution) and developing strong relationships with Internal and External customers.

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Purpose: 

• Release managers coordinate with different stakeholders for requirements, testing, and release calendar of necessary components.
• They ensure a synchronous running of day-to-day processes.
• Planning with several software development teams is a part of the release manager's duty. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaboration and coordination of end-to-end release process.
• Communicate with Project Teams, to understand the demand, prepare landscape and sandbox setup proposal.
• Providing leadership, control and take responsibility for the given area and manage and coordinate the deployment process.
• Supporting and planning project cutovers and oversee deployments.
• Manage releases according to the organization standards and adhere to timelines.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available and communicate deployment status as necessary.
• Subject Matter Expert for release management tools to act a leader to support, train other team members if they are facing any issues in the deployment of their releases and/or project streams.
• Mitigating risk by identify risks during code conflict, merging and make sure to deploy quality code in production and conduct release reviews, take accountability for driving a decision on Go Live of business requirement.
• Salesforce Platform Knowledge is essential to be proficient in refreshing a sandbox, must know how to package and deploy metadata components, knowledge on release branching strategies, code merging and should have worked on conflict resolution strategies.
• Understand and command and awareness of:
• Plan, Do, Check and Act with respect to the deployment of metadata components into the Salesforce org.
• Quality, Automate, Pipeline, Integrate, Deployment of quality code by running Static code analysis tools, automate most of the process by running deployment pipelines, Integrating the code, and deploying the metadata components into target org.
• Create and communicate implementation plans.
• Efficient to work on application life cycle management solutions like Jira, Gearset, AccelQ.
• Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities.
• Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications list, and dependencies.
• Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.

Qualifications: 

Suitable tertiary qualification.

• Project Management experience.

Experience: 

• Minimum of 3-4 years’ experience as a Release Manager.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating system.
• Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies.

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Job Summary

The Solutions Architect will be responsible for the design and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure and maintenance.

The role will have accountability for developing and implementing the architecture roadmap, oversight of the architecture and software design processes and have direct involvement in the implementation of solutions across the business.

Responsibilities

• Manage activities around the architecture, design, and implementation of various solutions within the business.
• Understand the various system implementations in the company as well as its clients to ensure optimal design and performance of systems.
• Engage with business and clients to understand and translate various commercial requirements into the technical realm.
• Engage with the technical teams of both the company and its clients to understand the various technical challenges and requirements from a technical perspective.
• Communicate the architecture and design to various stakeholders and collaborate with other system owners to ensure designs are understood and accurately address business and technical needs.
• Review the quality of designs, code, and processes to ensure the delivery of quality implementations.
• Track and analyze various soft and hard metrics and trends within the business to ensure any issues or potential issues are picked up timeously and addresses proactively.
• Create long-term strategies to ensure that the companies’ systems can scale along with the growth of our clients.
• Engage in high-level problem solving when cross system issues arise.

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
• Minimum of 5 – 7 years of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role.
• Experience in Cloud technologies (3+ years).
• Experience in an Agile environment (5+ years).
• Experience as a senior software developer (5+ years).
• Experience in Payment or Financial systems and platforms (5+ years).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical Programmes.
• Proficiency with information technologies in a secure network environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under indirect supervision.
• Broad understanding of information technology topics.
• Effective interpersonal skills and collaborative management style to include teamwork and team building ability.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort zone acquiring new skills.
• Flexible in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities.
• Technically creative and open-minded.

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Purpose: 

• To be responsible for project design, development, implementation and maintenance of java based initiatives on the Bancs platform.
• Focus on integration and new solutions, scaling and integration points; achieving the design, including breaking down the technical work packets and building the architecture.
• Obtain technical knowledge related to the Back-End (BANCS) development environments and platform architecture.
• Independently create solution design documentation (technical specifications) from book of work initiatives and escalated investigations of bugs in Production

Execute the design:

• Understand the requirement (business need and purpose)
• Understand the existing systems that will be affected by new requirements
• Understand the impact on other systems (i.e. Front-End)
• Set-up a functional description (FD)  handover/ technical specification (TS) high-level design meeting
• Ensure the design is simple, easy maintainable, user orientated & user friendly, efficient and adhere to the Bank’s Enterprises design standards, tooling and methodologies.
• Develop major performance efficient enhancements in the production environment according to the provided technical specifications.
• Ensure the application of simplistic and effective Java code
• Understand the impact of code: engage with Bancs Core technical and Business Analysts for specific scenarios to be tested & impact of code changes on other parts of the BANCS system
• Develop new requirements for specific projects under leadership of Project Team Leader
• Fix major and minor bugs in the Production environment
• Fix escalated bugs for existing Back-End products in the Production environment
• Conduct investigations based on requests  
• Provide feedback to investigation requester and Team Leader of relevant Business Analyst
• Perform unit and integration testing on existing environments and new developments
• Provide testing assistance to developer(s)
• Update / amend test plans according to solution development to ensure coverage of all areas
• Provide implementation instructions for new development
• Provide support to the Development / QA / Production environment(s)
• Take and perform a lead role in projects
• Design and develop new products for specific projects as per the book of work initiatives; unpack what exactly needs to be done at a technical level and break it down into work packets for the developer to complete

Qualifications: 

• Matric 
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or similiar degree

Knowledge:

Minimum:

• IT systems development processes
• Application development
• Standards and governance
• Testing practices
• Banking systems environment
• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)
• Agile development life cycle

Ideal Knowledge:

• UML
• Systems analysis and design
• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)
• Solid understanding of:
• Banking systems environment
• Banking business model
• Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)
• Object Orientated Development environment (i.e. Java, Spring Framework, JBoss, Hibernate)

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Job Purpose:

To prepare and analyse timely and accurate management account information for the stakeholders as well as to provide expert financial guidance on the account information in support of commercial decision making for the company.

Job Content:

Results Delivery:

• Contribute to meaningful cost reduction / optimisation at all levels through applying cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets.
• Provide input into formalisation of the Finance Department’s divisional budget and assist in the coordination and consolidation thereof to ensure that the information provided meet the expectation of the finance team.
• Produce and maintain monthly accurate management accounting information with supporting commentary, statistics, headcount, and analysis.
• Facilitate the entire planning and budgeting process (creating and ensuring strict adherence to the budget timetable, populating of the budgets with business units, timeous communication of material issues and changes and creating of standardised high-quality presentations with supporting commentary and analysis).
• Provide relevant training to the users of the budgeting and reporting tool Provide financial guidance and advice to stakeholders to assist them to accurately account for activities to ensure adherence to guidance and statutory reporting.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management:
• Maintain sustainable working relationship with stakeholders through ongoing engagement to ensure an understanding of their needs and always maintain an open channel of communication in supporting the department to achieve is business objectives.
• Develop and sustain relationships with service provider/vendor/supplier administrative staff to facilitate the effective procurement to pay process with service providers/vendors/suppliers.
• Gage stakeholder satisfaction through regular meetings and 360 feedback reports which will include any positive or negative feedback received from the stakeholders regarding the professionalism and timeous nature of interaction.

Process Management:

• Manage own delivery against agreed deliverables and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required.
• Create and design financial models and reports via Excel for the developers to implement into the financial (IDU) tool to execute rolling forecast budgeting and management accounts.
• Perform monthly maintenance and request enhancements to the financial (IDU) tool to streamline processes and contribute to time saving activities.
• Analyse the monthly, year to date as well as annual actuals information and compare against budget to determine variances against the last month’s estimate and the original budget and raise accruals accordingly.
• Perform monthly review and analyses of the annual view to determine the variances to track the expenses and revenue against the original budget and last month estimate.
• Perform the rolling forecast activities to track the revenue and expenses against the budget and adjust the expenses and revenue for the future months.
• Compile management accounts packs that will include financial as well as non-financial information for stakeholder review in support of commercial decision-making.
• Compile the budget pack in alignment with the strategy, which will contain both financial and non-financial information to present the budget to the board, audit, and HR committees for approval.
• Analyse management accounts to identify potential risks and advise stakeholders on risks identified as well as corrective action to be taken to mitigate risks.
• Build costing model through analysing and allocating of costs based on scientific costing principles and appropriate drivers to determine the actual profitability of the markets and cross-functional revenue generating areas.
• Determine product profitability by applying costing principles and appropriate drivers to ensure appropriate pricing and to identify potential cost efficiencies.
• Control the budgeting process through gathering and analyses of business information to compile the divisional packs for the divisional heads to be reviewed and discussed during divisional presentations.
• Create cost control awareness activities during budget and rolling forecast meetings to prevent unbudgeted expenditures and improve cost efficiencies within the various divisions.
• Consult with relevant manager to review progress against department plans and targets and to identify areas where corrective actions are required to ensure delivery of agreed results.
• Provide financial information in assistance to the compilation of the business cases for future initiatives to ensure profitability and long-term sustainability as well as to identify potential financial risks and opportunities.
• Act as a trusted business partner to various allocated divisions by providing expert finance advice, support, and guidance on commercial business decisions in alignment with the strategy.
• Act as back-up treasury accountant and project accountant as and when required to ensure continues flow of the treasury business processes and functions.
• Make decision about best practice through comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences; liaising with management and relevant stakeholders as and when required.
• Identify obstacles and major challenges through continuous review of processes and standards to ensure effective operational alignment to strategic priorities.
• Attend to ad-hoc financial information requirements and queries as requested by the stakeholders to assist with commercial business decisions and in continuation of business and increased productivity.

Self-Management:

• Improve personal capability and professional growth in line with the objectives by discussing development needs and proposed solutions with management.
• Be an effective team member encouraging teamwork and freely sharing knowledge.
• Visibly live the values contributing to the achievement of divisional objectives.
• Manage self in terms of development, delivery, and act as a self-starter.

Transformation and Innovation Management:

• Identify, share, and implement value adding improvement/innovative ideas and solutions contributing to divisional and results.
• Review relevant finance processes and procedures on a continuous basis and provide input to ensure that the most efficient methods are implemented and applied

Previous Experience:

• At least 3 years’ relevant industry experience, as a Commercial Analyst/ Management  Accountant or a similar role

Education:

• BCom Degree
• Post-graduate (Honours / CTA) Degree / Accounting / CIMA (Chartered institute for Management Accountants) would be advantageous

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Job Purpose:

To prepare and analyse timely and accurate management account information for the stakeholders as well as to provide expert financial guidance on the account information in support of commercial decision making for the company.

Job Content:

Results Delivery:

• Contribute to meaningful cost reduction / optimisation at all levels through applying cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets.
• Provide input into formalisation of the Finance Department’s divisional budget and assist in the coordination and consolidation thereof to ensure that the information provided meet the expectation of the finance team.
• Produce and maintain monthly accurate management accounting information with supporting commentary, statistics, headcount, and analysis.
• Facilitate the entire planning and budgeting process (creating and ensuring strict adherence to the budget timetable, populating of the budgets with business units, timeous communication of material issues and changes and creating of standardised high-quality presentations with supporting commentary and analysis).
• Provide relevant training to the users of the budgeting and reporting tool Provide financial guidance and advice to stakeholders to assist them to accurately account for activities to ensure adherence to guidance and statutory reporting.

Stakeholder Relationship Management:

• Maintain sustainable working relationship with stakeholders through ongoing engagement to ensure an understanding of their needs and always maintain an open channel of communication in supporting the department to achieve is business objectives.
• Develop and sustain relationships with service provider/vendor/supplier administrative staff to facilitate the effective procurement to pay process with service providers/vendors/suppliers.
• Gage stakeholder satisfaction through regular meetings and 360 feedback reports which will include any positive or negative feedback received from the stakeholders regarding the professionalism and timeous nature of interaction.

Process Management:

• Manage own delivery against agreed deliverables and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required.
• Create and design financial models and reports via Excel for the developers to implement into the financial (IDU) tool to execute rolling forecast budgeting and management accounts.
• Perform monthly maintenance and request enhancements to the financial (IDU) tool to streamline processes and contribute to time saving activities.
• Analyse the monthly, year to date as well as annual actuals information and compare against budget to determine variances against the last month’s estimate and the original budget and raise accruals accordingly.
• Perform monthly review and analyses of the annual view to determine the variances to track the expenses and revenue against the original budget and last month estimate.
• Perform the rolling forecast activities to track the revenue and expenses against the budget and adjust the expenses and revenue for the future months.
• Compile management accounts packs that will include financial as well as non-financial information for stakeholder review in support of commercial decision-making.
• Compile the budget pack in alignment with the strategy, which will contain both financial and non-financial information to present the budget to the board, audit, and HR committees for approval.
• Analyse management accounts to identify potential risks and advise stakeholders on risks identified as well as corrective action to be taken to mitigate risks.
• Build costing model through analysing and allocating of costs based on scientific costing principles and appropriate drivers to determine the actual profitability of the markets and cross-functional revenue generating areas.
• Determine product profitability by applying costing principles and appropriate drivers to ensure appropriate pricing and to identify potential cost efficiencies.
• Control the budgeting process through gathering and analyses of business information to compile the divisional packs for the divisional heads to be reviewed and discussed during divisional presentations.
• Create cost control awareness activities during budget and rolling forecast meetings to prevent unbudgeted expenditures and improve cost efficiencies within the various divisions.
• Consult with relevant manager to review progress against department plans and targets and to identify areas where corrective actions are required to ensure delivery of agreed results.
• Provide financial information in assistance to the compilation of the business cases for future initiatives to ensure profitability and long-term sustainability as well as to identify potential financial risks and opportunities.
• Act as a trusted business partner to various allocated divisions by providing expert finance advice, support, and guidance on commercial business decisions in alignment with the strategy.
• Act as back-up treasury accountant and project accountant as and when required to ensure continues flow of the treasury business processes and functions.
• Make decision about best practice through comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences; liaising with management and relevant stakeholders as and when required.
• Identify obstacles and major challenges through continuous review of processes and standards to ensure effective operational alignment to strategic priorities.
• Attend to ad-hoc financial information requirements and queries as requested by the stakeholders to assist with commercial business decisions and in continuation of business and increased productivity.

Self-Management:

• Improve personal capability and professional growth in line with the objectives by discussing development needs and proposed solutions with management.
• Be an effective team member encouraging teamwork and freely sharing knowledge.
• Visibly live the values contributing to the achievement of divisional objectives.
• Manage self in terms of development, delivery, and act as a self-starter.

Transformation and Innovation Management:

• Identify, share, and implement value adding improvement/innovative ideas and solutions contributing to divisional and results.
• Review relevant finance processes and procedures on a continuous basis and provide input to ensure that the most efficient methods are implemented and applied.

Previous Experience:

• At least 3 years’ relevant industry experience, as a Commercial Analyst/ Management  Accountant or a similar role

Education:

• BCom Degree
• Post-graduate (Honours / CTA) Degree / Accounting / CIMA (Chartered institute for Management Accountants) would be advantageous