Job Openings at GVW Group

Position Description
The Help Desk Technician serves as the first line of defense providing Level 1 support to computer system users our engineering office located in Cape Town, South Africa. You will work within a team to assist in maintenance and operations of the corporate technology infrastructure. Providing front line user support for all of the businesses.

Requirements

• Associates or BA/BS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5 years work experience in Microsoft Windows desktops, servers and networks.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve basic desktop, notebook and mobile issues.
• General understanding of computer networking, security and infrastructure best practices.
• Effective organization and planning skills and ability to prioritize work on multiple projects with high attention to detail.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and customer service skills to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to meet the physical requirements of the position, including the ability to lift and handle up to 50 pounds in equipment.
• Work with other information system individuals and teams and vendors in other countries.
• Ability and willingness to provide support during off hours when necessary.

Preferred Qualifications And Experience

• Microsoft A+ certification or other industry recognized advanced certification
• Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory
• Understanding of LAN/WAN, DNS/WINS, DHCP and mobile computing environments

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Data Engineer
This role will suit an all-round Data Engineer experienced in every step of data flow. Starting from configuring data sources to integrating analytical tools. The data engineer is a technical person who will contribute to architecting, building, testing, and maintaining the data platform as a whole

Mission

• Deliver accurate data reliably within the required processing time, ready for processing by analytics applications.

You will work across multiple business teams to implement new and improve existing systems for:

• Extracting data from current sources
• Data storing/transition for all data gathered for analytical purposes.
• Transformation: Cleaning, structuring, and formatting the data sets to make data consumable for processing or analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead/contribute to designing the architecture of a data platform.
• Develop data systems tools, customize and manage integration tools, databases, warehouses, and analytical systems.
• Data pipeline maintenance/testing.
• Machine learning algorithm deployment. Machine learning models designed by our data scientists, deployed into production environments, managing computing resources and setting up monitoring tools.
• Manage data and meta-data storage, structed for efficiency, quality and performance.
• Track pipeline stability. Monitor the overall performance and stability of the systems.
• Keep track of related infrastructure costs and manage these as efficiently as possible, continuously find the balance between performance and cost.

Important Characteristics

• Dynamic, driven by results. Enjoy getting things done.
• A proactive, results-oriented, and can-do attitude is highly desirable
• Self-starter with the ability to successfully plan, organize, and execute assigned initiatives with minimal guidance and direction.
• Strong listening, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to conduct systems analysis and prepare requirement specifications concerning data-related business processes and systems.
• Willing to take the initiative.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exhibits close attention to detail and is a champion for accuracy.
• High level of Integrity.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, ability to multi-task effectively
• The ability and willingness to do a variety of different tasks.

Preferred Qualifications And Experience

• A Bachelor degree in computer science or engineering related field.
• 5-10 years relevant experience.
• Intermediate to advanced SQL optimization, developing ETL strategies.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of database and data warehousing principles (e.g. OLAP, Data Marts, Star Schema, lambda/kappa architectures)
• Knowledge of working with stream data pipeline frameworks or solutions, e.g. Apache Flink, Beam, Dataflow, Databricks etc. an advantage
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms is an advantage
• Experience within the Automotive or manufacturing industry is a plus.
• Experience with agile or other development methodologies - Agile, Kanban or Scrum

Preferred Technical Experience

• Implementing data pipelines using cloud infrastructure and services.
• Implementing event-based systems using tools like Confluent Kafka or Kinesis.
• Knowledge of CDC pipelines (E.g. Bin logs, Debezium, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS))
• API integration and development using Python - Fast API, Flask
• DevOps: Docker (ECS), Kubernetes (EKS), Spark clusters, etc.
• Database analysis, design & administration.
• SQL Query optimization and data architecture improvements;
• DB: PostgreSQL, MS-SQL
• ETL: Python, Bash
• Infrastructure: AWS (Kinesis, API Gateway, S3, DMS)
• Dev Tools: Git, Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• OS: Ubuntu, Windows Server