Job Openings at The Shoprite Group of Company

Purpose of the Job    

• To ensure that all departments within the OK Furniture Branch function optimally and to achieve sales results through people.
• To manage sales performance of the branch.
• To control all stock management functions within the branch.
• To ensure that all branch staff are managed effectively.
• To provide excellent customer service.
• To control all cash management activities within the branch
• To report on all branch activities and relevant data
• To contribute towards the regional budgeting process
• To implement daily management controls
• People Management Training

 
Job Objectives    

• To manage sales performance of the branch.
• To control all stock management functions within the branch.
• To ensure that all branch staff are managed effectively.
• To provide excellent customer service.
• To control all cash management activities within the branch
• To report on all branch activities and relevant data
• To contribute towards the regional budgeting process
• To implement daily management controls
• People Management Training

Qualifications    

• Matric

Experience    

• Retail and Hospitality Experience
• Branch Management Experience
• Knowledge and Skills    
• Financial Management
• Performance Management
• Sales
• Computer Literacy
• Branch systems

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Purpose of the Job    

• The successful candidate must be able to ensure that optimum stock levels are obtained in the Distribution Centre and that the general assistants and clerks perform cycle counts and proper stock rotation in accordance with standard operating procedures.

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Job Objectives    

•  Follow specific work instructions and best practices to safely and accurately complete daily work assignments
•  Ensure correct receiving of stock in designated areas and updating and maintaining daily received reports
•  Assist with physical inventories and cycle counts, ensuring proper stock rotation and maintaining FEFO
•  Monitor and report any inventory discrepancies to the Stock Control Supervisor
•  Monitor staff attendance and punctuality and report work performance of staff in the designated store areas
•  Co-operate with representatives from other departments in the organization to provide warehouse information as requested
•  Enforce Good Warehouse Practice principles by ensuring general housekeeping of sector maintained, including labeling
•  Verify that processes are followed according to SOPs and that appropriate documentation is attached
•  Conduct operations in a manner that promotes safety
•  Assist with other duties and departments in accordance with operational requirements

Qualifications    

•  Grade 12 qualification

Experience    

•  Previous working experience in a similar environment will be an added advantage.

Knowledge and Skills    

•  A good understanding of Supply chain procedures within a warehouse environment will be advantageous
•  Proficient in both spoken and written English and at least one other of the official South African languages
•  Good analytical and problem-solving ability and excellent attention to detail.
•  Computer literate-MS proficient, Office365

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Purpose of the Job    

• To ensure that efficient and cost effective business solutions and processes are in place to address business needs/requirements.

Job Objectives entails:

• To understand the current business environment
• To identify and understand business requirements
• To determine a suitable solution to address business needs/requirements
• To deliver the required solution
• To train business users
• To continuously support the business environment
• To lead, mentor and coach junior and intermediate BA’s within the stream.

Job Objectives    
 To understand the current business environment:

• Analyse and understand the current business environment
• Analyse and understand the current business strategies
• Understand the current trends and developments in the industry

 To identify and understand business requirements:

• Work with user departments in the identification and documentation of user requirements
• Assess and document the business implication of user requirements to the business process involved
• Propose and document process improvements where appropriate
• Define business rules and guide the implementation of these rules in the development of the various application systems

 To determine a suitable solution to address business needs/requirements:

• Works closely with System Analysts and Project Managers to design and implement solutions
• Provide input on alternatives presented by the technical designers and answer detailed questions regarding the business design
• Engage the most appropriate business representatives to obtain input and agreement on alternatives that are presented

 To deliver the required solution:

• Research, document and prepare business cases on appropriate technologies, which will align with the business strategies of the organisation
• Define scope of solution and ensure understanding of scope by business user
• Review technical solutions and As Is business processes against business requirement specification
• Documenting and evaluating required data and information
• Facilitate and co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing
• Understand, document and escalate project risks
• Liaise with other project areas to co-ordinate interdependencies and resolve issues

 To train business users:

• Render support and facilitate sessions for end-users, including training where applicable

 To continuously support the business environment:

• Maintain an understanding of enterprise business initiatives and objectives, the various line portfolios, and
• current trends and developments in the technology field

To lead, mentor and coach junior and intermediate BA’s within the stream:

• Assist Senior Business Analyst to monitor portfolio activities
• Coaching and mentoring for the domain stream BA’s in BA tools and processes
• Provide input to strategic planning and setting of goals objectives
• Prioritise business requests
• Understand interdependencies across capability areas
• Manage BA workload

KPA/KPI monitoring

• Manage BA leave, overtime, etc.

Qualifications    
Essential:

• 3 year Financial Degree/Diploma

Desirable:

• FTI Diploma

Experience    
Essential

• (5 years) Business analysis in Finance
• (5 years) ERP systems
• (2-3 years) Retail industry
• SAP FI experience

Desirable

• S/4 Hana experience
• Knowledge and Skills    

Essential

• Formal training in business analysis and design
• methodologies
• Experience in participating in projects
• Solid track record in successful delivery in the BA
• environment

Desirable

• Experience in a global business environment is preferred
• Business understanding of the broader retail industry will be advantageous.

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Purpose of the Job    

• The candidate will monitor and field all incoming incidents and be the first line of resolution of incidents for the team and escalate to the appropriate engineer where needed. The candidate will be responsible for documenting any processes or tasks and share this with the greater team. Where required, prepare and maintain how-to guides and train Field Services and/or Service Desk to better assist with first line resolution of incidents. The candidate will be responsible for the monitoring, maintenance and operation of Microsoft based systems consisting of +- 1000 Microsoft Windows Servers that are key to daily business operations. The candidate will be part of a team of engineers and administrators, supporting assigned systems, applications, and associated technologies in the enterprise.

Job Objectives    

• Incident Management
• Process and task documentation
• Administer and maintain Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Administer and maintain multi forest and domain Microsoft Active Directory Domain and Certificate Services.
• Administer and support core Microsoft Windows roles and features such as: IIS, Failover Clustering, File and Storage Services, DHCP, DNS and NPS.
• Administer and maintain Office365, Exchange and Teams
• Scripting and automation
• Implement and assist with Disaster recovery management, procedures & documentation

Qualifications    

• Grade 12
• Industry Certification: MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer): Infrastructure Engineer
• Industry Certification: MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer): Private Cloud (Desirable)
• Industry Certification: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Desirable)

Experience    

• 2+ Years Extensive experience with Microsoft Windows Server
• 2+ Years Extensive experience with core
• 2+ Years Microsoft Windows roles and features
• 2+ Years Extensive experience with Microsoft Active Directory Domain and Certificate Services.
• 2+ Years Proven history of incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, and advanced troubleshooting
• 2+ Years Experience with Microsoft Private and Public Cloud (Desirable)

Knowledge and Skills    
JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE

• Understanding of Microsoft Windows Server fundamentals and concepts
• Understanding of Microsoft Exchange and Office365
• Understanding of Microsoft Active
• Directory and its components (DNS, DHCP, Group Policy etc) fundamentals and concepts
• Understanding of virtualisation technologies fundamentals and concepts
• Understanding of network and storage principles 
• Understanding of the concepts of "cloud" Years
• Understanding of other Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint, Teams, etc.
• IBM and HP hardware knowledge Years

JOB RELATED SKILLS

• Time Essential Desirable
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server architecture design and implementation
• In-depth knowledge in architecture design and implementation of other Microsoft products such as Active Directory Domain Services
• Scripting experience, specifically with PowerShell to automate existing and workloads and routine system admin tasks. 
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS protocols, firewall, load-balancing technologies and firewalls.
• Strong knowledge of working with load balancing technologies and large-scale server farms.
• Virtual environments knowledge including
• HyperV and VMWARE.

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Purpose of the Job    

• To assist the Team Lead in the Cloud Engineering Team with rolling out new AWS systems as well as maintaining, upgrading, replacing and improving the long-term performance of the existing systems.?The candidate will be responsible for the monitoring, maintenance and operation of AWS based systems consisting of a multi account, multi-service landscape. The candidate will be part of a team of engineers and administrators, supporting assigned systems, applications, and associated technologies in the enterprise as well as responding to daily support incidents. The candidate will be responsible for upholding operational standards in all areas of work and documenting where necessary.

Job Objectives    

• Implementation, administration, optimisation and maintenance on the AWS platform
• Troubleshooting of AWS outages and performance issues
• Analysing and implementing of cost saving solutions, security remediation tools and monitoring.
• Interact with other teams to implement systems and solutions following the AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS best practices.
• Scripting and automation
• To implement and assist with Disaster Recovery management, procedures & documentation
• Network configuration, subnetting, routing (intra / inter account and VPN)

Qualifications    

• Grade 12
• 5-10 Years Industry Certification: MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer): Infrastructure Engineer
• 3-5 Years Industry Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Experience    

• 3-4 Years Extensive experience with core AWS Services including but not limited to: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch WAF, EFS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, IAM, Athena, Glacier, KMS, Organizations, API Gateway, Trusted Advisor, Guard Duty, Config, Systems Manager, Route 53, Certificate Manager
• 3-4 Years Experience with other AWS Services including: Athena, EMR, Service Catalog, Control Tower, EKS, ECS, Cognito, Resource Access Manager, Directory Service
• 1-2 Years Experience with AWS DevOps
• 5-10 Years Extensive experience with Microsoft Windows Server
• 5-10 Extensive experience with core Microsoft Windows roles and features
• 3-5 Years Experience with Linux
• 5-10 years Extensive experience with Microsoft Active Directory Domain
• 3-5 Years Experience with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services
• 5-10 Proven history of incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, and advanced troubleshooting
• 3-5 Years Experience in documenting environments and processes

Knowledge and Skills    
JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE

• 3-5 Years Understanding of the concepts of "cloud"
• 3-5 Years Understanding of AWS Well Architected Framework
• 3-5 Years Understanding of AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• 5-10 Years Understanding of Microsoft Windows Server fundamentals and concepts
• 5-10 Years Understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and its components (DNS, DHCP, Group Policy etc) fundamentals and concepts
• 5-10 Years Understanding of virtualisation technologies fundamentals and concepts
• 5-10 Years Understanding of network and storage principles?
• 3-5 Years Understanding of Linux fundamentals and concepts

JOB RELATED SKILLS

• 5-10 Years In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server architecture design and implementation
• 3-5 Years Strong knowledge in AWS Solutions Architecture and implementation
• 1-2 Years Knowledge in AWS DevOps including pipelines, etc.
• 3-5 Years Scripting experience, specifically with CloudFormation and JSON scripting
• 5-10 Years Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS protocols, firewall, basic routing, load-balancing technologies and firewalls.

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Purpose of the Job    

• You have already moved from a full stack developer or Seniors ops engineer into a DevOps engineer role in a Linux based environment. Maybe you are working at a smaller organisation where you are a bit of a jack of all trades but you yearn for something more challenging? You want to work at scale with large diverse team of specialist supporting a 24X7 operation. You will be used to taking responsibility for deploying applications into production and, with the assistance of appropriate monitoring, proactively troubleshooting any issues that arise. You have an understanding of at least one develops tools chain. You have experience with at least one of the following architectural patterns:

Job Objectives    
1. Work with specialist in operations to ensure applications are secure and available in production:

• Implement appropriate monitoring and logging to ensure potential failure can be detected, diagnosed and remediate before services are impacted
• Be able to deploy highly available and disaster recovery infrastructure as appropriate for server, serverless and container based applications
• Work with the security team to ensure the application and its infrastructure is secure.
• Where possible work with the development team leads to ensure security is built into their development effort
• Where appropriate deploy additional security measure such as WAF’s into the production environment
• Exploit security services available from the cloud provider to monitor and ensure the security of the environment

2. Work with the development teams to deploy and ensure the deployability of infrastructure, packaged applications and custom applications:

• Use existing SDLC tool chains to deploy server, serverless and container-based applications
• Maintain and upgrading existing SDLC tool chains
• Work with the development managers to support them in SDLC automation and developing code to deploy infrastructure using our existing SDLC tool chains

3. Work with application owners to manage the cost infrastructure deployed for applications both in development and production:

• Tag resource appropriately so that their cost can be monitored by system
• Tactically work with the application and owner and application specialist to implement tactical cost saving where possible while maintaining the required performance
• Support system owners in monitoring, predicting and optimising the cost of operating their infrastructure relative to the required performance

Qualifications    

• Grade 12
• 3-year degree/ diploma in technology field or in exceptional cases 6 years equivalent experience
• AWS Devops Professional Certification

Experience    

• 1-year work experience as DevOps engineer/ Cloud Engineer responsible for the deployment and availability of applications
• 3-5 years work experience in a technology-related field either as full stack developer or operations engineer for Linux hosted application managed through scripted automated deployment

Knowledge and Skills    

• 2 years Knowledge deploying and managing applications in the cloud
• 2 years Knowledge or digital application patterns
• 1 years Knowledge of DevOps
• 2 years Knowledge of agile
• 2 years Knowledge of application troubleshooting and root cause of failure analysis
• 2-3 Years Ability to implement SDLC automation and Testing using git based repositories, code build and pipeline or equivalent open source technologies
• 2-3 Years Ability to configure and deploy infrastructure using CloudFormation, ECS, and lambda
• 2-3 Years Ability to implement logging and monitor application using cloud trial, cloud watch and application specific logging
• 2-3 Years Ability to automate management of polices and standards using trusted advisor, Secrets manager, and certificates manager
• 2-3 Years Ability to implement mechanisms to detect and respond to incidents
• 2-3 Years Ability to implement high availability, and disaster recovery using CloudFront, Route53, and RDS