Job Openings at iOCO

What you’ll do:

SOC Operations Management

• Oversee the performance and operations of the SOC, ensuring SLA and KPI adherence.
• Supervise security analysts, shift leads, and third-party service providers.
• Maintain a 24/7 operational readiness of the SOC to detect and respond to security incidents.

Incident Management and Response

• Ensure timely detection, analysis, and response to cybersecurity incidents.
  Coordinate with incident response teams to manage and resolve incidents effectively.
  Develop post-incident reports and lessons-learned documentation to improve SOC performance.

Service Delivery and Quality Assurance

• Ensure SOC services meet contractual obligations and customer expectations.
  Conduct regular service reviews and maintain strong relationships with clients and other stakeholders..
  Monitor and enhance the quality of threat intelligence, monitoring, and response capabilities.

Team Leadership and Development

• Train and retain top talent for the SOC team.
  Assist management and conduct regular performance reviews and provide mentorship to team members.
  Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture.

Process and Technology Improvement

• Evaluate and propose tools, technologies, and processes to enhance SOC capabilities.
  Collaborate with IT and security teams to ensure interoperability of systems and tools.
  Develop and maintain SOC policies, procedures, and documentation.

Reporting and Metrics

• Provide regular updates and detailed reports to senior management on SOC operations.
  Provide regular updates and detailed reports to clients on SOC operations.
  Track and analyse metrics related to incidents, SLA compliance, and team performance.

Your expertise:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a SOC or cybersecurity environment, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Experience managing 24/7 operations and working with geographically dispersed teams.
• Proven experience in incident response, threat analysis, and vulnerability management.
• Basic IT Knowledge: Fundamental understanding of operating systems (Windows, Linux), networking concepts (IP, DNS, TCP/IP), and common security protocols.
• Relevant experience in cybersecurity, especially within a SOC environment
• Practical experience in IT and networking roles
• Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, and EDR technologies.
• Knowledge of common attack vectors, TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), and cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001).
• Familiarity with scripting or automation for process improvement.

Technical skills:

• Proficiency with security tools, SIEM systems, and network administration
• Staying abreast of the latest security trends and tools.

Basic hands-on experience with Technologies:

• SIEM
• EPP +EDR
• Secure web Gateways
• Mail web Gateways
• Security detection and response
• Vulnerability Management
• SASE

Other

Qualifications required:

Education:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field

Certifications (preferred):

• Certifications like CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or CEH can be advantageous.
• EC-Council Certified SOC Analyst (CSA)
• EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker
• Logpoint
• Symantec +EDR, WithSecure +EDR, Trend Micro +EDR
• WithSecure Vulnerability Management

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What you’ll do:

Leading the Development Process

• Work with and direct the team’s software engineers in setting the standards for coding, testing and software quality
• Collaborate closely with the team’s BAs on the efficient transition of BDD’s and Swaggers to the engineers as part of the overall workflow.
• Oversee and manage the scope, timeline, and goals for the delivery of working software
• Oversee and assist in the production of comprehensive documentation
• Oversee and provide support to production cutovers and migrations as required
• Lead the analysis and resolution of technical and application problem

Supporting the Scrum Master

• Participate in and support backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings
• Provide clear reporting on the status of the scope, timeline, and progress for the delivery of working software
• Assist in setting up a robust out of hours support process
• Assist in the prioritisation of bugs and defects

Providing Guidance and Mentoring

• Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code
• Provide technical leadership to the teams’ software engineers through coaching and mentorship
• Identify and encourage areas for growth, education, and development within the team

Your expertise:

• A Lead Developer with at least 7 years’ experience in development with 2 years Technical Leadership experience with a combination of following skills:
• Must have strong experience in Angular version 6 or higher
• C#.NET
• CSS, HTML, JavaScript.
• SQL Server or Relational Database experience.
• Cloud knowledge (Azure and AWS) experience/knowledge an advantage.

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What you’ll do:

• Familiarity with access control models and network security.
• Evaluate designs to determine the most efficient and effective solution.
• Experience in selecting, design engineering, solution engineering, project engineering, integrating, and implementing Cisco network architecture and related technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of access networking technologies, routers & firewalls, VPN solutions, Quality of Service, subnetting, etc.
• Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting routers, firewalls, switches, and wireless (able to build configurations and solutions that conform to standards without guidance)
• Demonstrated skills in developing a technology plan including technical strategy and direction as well as the related business case for the use of that technology.

Your expertise:

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in network device configuration and troubleshooting
• Solid background in network administration and architecture
• Troubleshooting skills.
• Administration and Maintenance
• Ability to work independently
• Customer support soft skills

Qualifications required:

Qualification essential: 

• National Senior Certificate/ Matric/ N3

Qualifications preferred: 

• Degree or Diploma in a related discipline
• ITIL Foundation certification
• Juniper (JNCIA / JNCIS)
• Aruba (ACSP/ACMP/ACP-Campus Access)/Fortinet NSE7 – Must
• Current Cisco Professional certification (e.g., CCNP, CCDP) – advantages

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What you’ll do:

• Requirements gathering with Business Analyst
• Defining and documenting non-functional requirements. 
• Architecture Design based on best practices and architecture principles
• Collaboration with Cybersecurity team to ensure that design conforms to Sasol's security standards
• Conducting data privacy assessments for proposed solutions with the Data Privacy Office
• Technical evaluation of vendor selection process
• Facilitate that security assessment and cloud risk assessment are done and signed off by relevant parties
• Present and get approval of architecture designs at Architecture Board (ARC)
• Ensuring that the implementation of solutions follows the required governance
• Manage technical teams from the vendors during solution implementation
• Create Test Plan and test cases in alignment with the Quality Engineering team
• Facilitate test execution and document test results
• Defect management
• Resolving technical issues
• Creation of deployment plan
• Perform Service Take On to hand over the implemented solution to support team
• Participating in agile ceremonies
• Reporting to the Project Manager and Product Manager

Your expertise:

• Must have proven hands on experience in a Solution Architect role, at an enterprise level.

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Skills and Experience

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop, and maintain SQL databases, ensuring their reliability, performance, and security.
• Optimize and refine existing SQL queries to improve performance.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and other stakeholders to design efficient database architectures.
• Write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and functions to support business requirements.
• Perform regular database maintenance tasks such as backups, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues in a timely manner.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency across all databases.
• Provide support for data migration, ETL processes, and data integration projects.
• Document database designs, solutions, and processes for reference and training purposes.

Your expertise:

• Proven experience as a SQL Developer, Database Developer, or in a similar role.
• Proficiency in SQL programming and database management.
• Strong knowledge of database design, optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience with ETL processes and data migration.
• Familiarity with database security and compliance best practices.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred skills:

• Knowledge of other database management systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, R) for data manipulation.

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What you’ll do:

• Lead and manage EI/EM strategy formulation and implementation, with a focus on sustained competitiveness and profitability
• Develop a budget and monitor performance against financial targets and forecasts
• Oversee operations, including the management of projects and contracts
• Create and maintain long-term, trusted relationships with customers and partners at all levels of the customer/partner organizations
• Develop and drive continuous improvement initiatives in all business processes
• Drive and deliver on the transformation and BEE objectives of the business
• Maintain and enhance a culture of innovation, customer-focus, entrepreneurship and human capital development
• Contribute to Energy Cluster executive management in respect to strategy formulation, forecasting, management reporting and decision-making
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting of business performance to all relevant stakeholders
• Ensures compliance and business governance at all times

Your expertise:

• Function related experience: 10+ years
• Leading teams: 10+ years
• Project experience: 10+ years
• Proven experience in the electrical power utility and related industry segments
• A strong track record of achievement at Senior Management level (this must include financial results) for a period of no less than five years
• Experience in dealing with multinational suppliers and OEMs will be advantageous

Qualifications:

• Electrical Engineering Degree/Diploma
• Postgraduate business management and/or technical qualification

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What you’ll do:

• All manual testing activities during all phases of the SDLC from analysing business requirements to designing and executing test cases in different environments.
• Creating and updating test cases to meet the business functional requirements.
• Reviewing and signing off test cases design and execution packs.
• Identifying, maintaining and flag test cases for regression and automation purpose
• Identifying, preparing and maintaining test data in different test environment
• Performing manual execution of the functional test cases within all test cycles (Unit, System Integration, UAT, Regression, Smoke)
• Making use of defect tracking tools such as JIRA to log, manage, resolve, and report on bugs/defects
• Participating in all scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, retros, etc.
• Providing estimate of test efforts in every sprint planning meeting
• Providing progress feedback in daily stand-up meetings
• Capturing time and effort spent on allocated tasks daily and providing monthly timesheets
• Participating in business sign-off meetings
• Following QA standards and best practices to ensure the highest level of quality
• Knowledge sharing with other team members
• Supporting and maintaining test tools and frameworks
• Reporting on test progress to managers and delivery team

Your expertise:

• High intermediate – Senior/ 5+ years of experience
• Comfortable working in the following methodologies: Waterfall, Agile and Kanban
• Experience with tools such as JIRA and Azure DevOps
• Experience working with databases and writing own SQL queries (intermediate level)
• Experience in Testing APIs and microservices using Postman, Swagger or SoapUI
• Mobile Testing (beneficial)
• Experience testing on multiple browsers using web simulators
• Understanding of test automation principles
• Understanding of structured test methods and processes
• Experience working in both Black Box and White Box Testing
• Knowledge of the Collective Investment Scheme domain (desired)

Qualifications:

• Matric
• Relevant IT/ Testing Qualification
• ISTQB