Job Opportunities at BETSoftware

Skill Set

Key skills/attributes/position-specific competencies:

The following indicates what would typically be expected for this role at a competent level:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Desktop and server applications.
• Knowledge of computer hardware and peripherals and basic networking (LAN, VPN).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – especially in writing professional reports.
• Strong telephonic and written etiquette.
• Information technology system support skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
• Professional and punctual approach.
• Commitment to customer service and exceptional attention to detail.
• High level of integrity and confidentiality.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Self-motivated.
• Problem-solving. 
• Able to work on a rotational shift basis to cover weekend support. There will be night shifts required, including graveyard shifts.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

Technical support

• Provide Level 1 technical support for IT Helpdesk services, including responding to and resolving user queries and issues.
• Utilize ITSM ticketing system aligned with ITIL framework for managing and prioritizing support tickets.
• Escalate any issues beyond Level 1 to appropriate support teams.
• Answering phone calls professionally and promptly and gathering all client information about technical issues.
• Providing remote support to clients in different regions.
• Collaborating with IT professionals to determine technical solutions.
• Management of any escalations relating to IT infrastructure. Provide day-to-day technical support for all Hollywood Group/Bet Software services and third-party products.
• Administer, install, configure, and troubleshoot the MS operating systems and products installed on those systems including Office 365.
• Troubleshooting of telecommunications, including DSL lines, all fibre lines and wireless backup mediums, LTE and P2P Wireless broadband connections.
• Installation and maintenance of network and standalone printers.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity including LAN, WAN, and Hardware faults.
• Assist with upgrading/maintaining antivirus products.
• Troubleshooting of VPN connections using Fortinet solutions.
• Troubleshoot hardware-related faults.
• Provide basic end-user training and providing customers with customer feedback.
• Adhere to clearly defined Escalation Matrices and ITSM RACI.
• Monitoring and reporting on Branch connectivity alerts, using the monitoring tools provided (Libre LMS / Nagios).

Administration

• Being the initial point of contact with customers and ensuring exceptional customer service during their first interaction is delivered.
• Management of customer contact to provide service excellence.
• Troubleshoot and Respond to Multichannel Tickets logged within the required response and resolution Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Update Ticket entries with clear informative written English, without jargon or the use of acronyms.
• Log all issues or faults correctly and accurately in the ticketing system.

Customer Centricity

• Feedback to customers on the status of all unresolved queries.
• Ensure the protection of all user and company data in compliance with company privacy policies.
• Monitoring branch connectivity via monitoring platforms provided to identify branches who require assistance.

Team Work

• Constructively participate as a member of the wider IT Department.
• Undertake any other tasks or once-off projects which may be assigned from time to time.
• Demonstrate professional skills and a high standard of integrity.

Living the spirit: 

The job obligations of an IT Helpdesk Technician L1 go well beyond what is listed above. Ensuring that you are living and applying our fundamental company values in your day-to-day tasks is critical to the success of Global Support and BET Software as a whole. We have outlined how you will bring our core company values to life in your role below:

• Continuously embracing the power of teamwork to overcome challenges and find innovative solutions to make a positive impact within the Global Support Team. 
• Encouraging a supportive and inclusive environment where every team member's contribution is valued. It's always important to remember that success is a collective achievement, and we celebrate it as a team.
• Fostering an environment with open and clear communication to ensure everyone is on the same page. Team members are encouraged to use stand-up discussions/team/department meetings to communicate and exchange information that will benefit the team and contribute to BET Software's success.
• Embrace each day as an opportunity to learn and grow in the ever-evolving field of IT. Every day brings a new adventure in troubleshooting and finding solutions for our clients and greater team. 
• Approach your work with a spirit of creativity and curiosity, seeking new ways to improve processes and finding excitement in challenges. 
• It's important to uphold a culture of honesty, transparency, and integrity in all our interactions. At Bet Software, we value and respect our team members' different backgrounds, viewpoints, and experiences.
• Uphold the importance of remaining accountable for your actions and decisions. 
• Assume responsibility for all duties and responsibilities, ensuring that they are accomplished to the best of your ability. It is critical to remember that even when assisting other departments, you are still representing Global Support. Your work will represent the Global Support Team as a whole.

Qualifications

Job Specifications: 

• Matric. 
• Relevant information technology qualification. 
• A minimum of 1 Year of experience in an IT Helpdesk environment. 
• Exposure and experience within an IT Helpdesk service desk. 
• A (plus) or N (plus) certification (Advantageous). 
• ITIL Foundation certification (Advantageous).

Apply Before 04/04/2026

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Skill Set

• Attention to detail
• Effective communicator 
• Problem Solving/ Resolution Driven
• Client Centric
• Software Development and Maintenance 

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

Perform Planning

• Identify and establish objectives for self and team.
• Work on objectives or goals within timeline.
• Consider all reasonable factors, impediments and obstacles.
• Identify potential alternative strategies and refactor approach for maximum benefit within the shortest possible time.

Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Functionally Complete

• Deliver a solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives.
• Deliver a correct solution which provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision.
• Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Reliable

• Ensure the solution performs appropriately under agreed conditions for extended periods of time without the need for intervention (despite potential attacks)
• Ensure all steps are taken to reduce the occurrence of faults due to misunderstood requirements, design errors, and implementation errors.
• Ensure the solution is robust and remains continually available.
• Respond to outages and failures when and where needed.
• Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal.
• Ensure complete data recoverability so that data may be recovered, and the desired state of the solution can be re-established (despite potential attacks).
• Ensure the solution is maintainable, and actively seek methods to reduce down-time.
  Ensure the solution is durable so that as user volumes and requirements change the solution can evolve over the long term
• Ensure the solution simplifies support and maintenance support through traceability, and effective error messaging.
• Ensure over time, the solution becomes more mature where the interval between the interventions to remain operational become less frequent.
• Ensure in the event of a failure reduce effective downtime is to the minimum possible.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security

• Ensure the solution is secure, and confidential by protecting all information and data (also data transmission).
• Ensure persons or other solutions have the degree of access appropriate to their level of authorization and types.
• Ensure the solution has high integrity where the solution prevents unauthorised access to, modification of computer programs, data, or settings.
• Ensure the solution has a high degree of survivability despite third-Party interventions (attacks, human errors, hardware or software faults).
• Employ logs and records so that actions and events can be proven to have taken place and cannot be disputed/ repudiated later.
• Ensure wherever possible actions can be traced uniquely to the entity which performed it.
• Ensure wherever possible the identify of an entity can be proved to be the correct one.
• Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Maintainable
• Ensure the solution and its relevant code base supports ease of modification for future maintainers.
• Ensure the use of appropriate standards and methods.
• Ensure where possible (without affecting performance/security) the solution caters for maintenance by support teams rather than developers.
• Ensure modularity where the solution consists of discrete components so that a change in one component has minimal impact on other components.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support burden.
• Apply a strategy of reusability so an asset can be used in more than one solution or in building other assets.
• Where possible provide a mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
• Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Verify Deployed Solutions

• Ensure the solution is delivered completely and with the additional assets which are required to make installation/deployment as seamless and easy as possible.
• Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving, software or other operational usage environments.

Respond to Outages & Failures

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams so number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’ solutions.
  Perform trouble shooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce intervention required over time.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

Direct 3rd Party Development Partners

• When required supply appropriate information, domain knowledge and access to partners.
• Provide timely, relevant and constructive feedback to assist the partner to achieve success.
• Take corrective action when deviation from the plan is observed.
• Take all appropriate steps to ensure organisational success.
• Engages in cross-functional collaboration and problem solving whilst encourages a culture of inclusivity.
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
• Shows up in an authentic manner and leverages off the team’s diversity to achieve deliverables.Views
• Challenges as opportunities to expand on their knowledge base as well as encourages junior team members to do the same and takes a creative approach to overcoming the challenges.

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment is advantageous.
• 2 - 5 years database experience 3 -5 years server/client- side languages are advantageous.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Apply Before 04/10/2026

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Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate and coordinate efforts to implement NIST Security Controls Framework across the BET Software.
• Monitor and audit logs across all product lines of the BET software’s environment.
• Perform audits on roles and permissions.
• Collect and report on key metrics such as uptime, outages, cyberattacks
• Perform internal privacy impact assessments.
• Provide Security Training & Awareness to BET Software team members and contractors.
• Participate as a key member of the Incident Response Team.
• Monitor the collection and storage of sensitive information such as PII, PHI and PCI related data.
• Participate in Due Diligence and Contract Reviews.

Living the spirit: 

• Embrace authenticity by recognizing that each team member's unique perspective, background, and ideas enrich our collective approach to security. 
• By daring to be ourselves, we contribute to a diverse and dynamic environment, fostering innovation and adaptability.
• We thrive on the exhilaration of safeguarding our organization's digital assets in an ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats. 
• Each day presents new challenges, and we approach them with curiosity, resilience, and a sense of adventure. This attitude fuels our drive to stay at the forefront of IT security.
• We firmly believe that a unified team is the cornerstone of our success. We actively collaborate, share knowledge, and support each other. Our spirit of teamwork extends beyond our immediate team to include our colleagues from various departments. We encourage and embrace the idea of Team work makes the dream work as we all work together to achieve business goals 
• Empower and enable team members to be themselves, fostering an environment where individual strengths shine.
• Act as a mentor and coach to team members, fostering their growth and development
• Exhibit good leadership in crisis situations, guiding the team through challenging and high-pressure scenarios.
• Uphold high moral and ethical standards in all your actions and decisions.
• We wholeheartedly embrace the responsibilities that come with the role, from monitoring security access to analyzing security breaches. We proactively raise our hands, taking initiative to protect our organization's assets and uphold the highest standards of information security.

Qualifications

Job Specification:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• At least 3-5 years’ experience with Server Operating Systems, Networking, Security
• At least 3-5 years’ experience with OWASP
• At least 3-5 years’ experience working with security standards and best practices
• At least 3-5 years’ experience systems management
• Experience working in a SOC | Experience working with a SIEM platform - QRadar | splunk | alienvault | chronicle etc
• Network+ Certification preferred.
• Security+ Certification preferred.
• CEH (Certified ethical hacker).

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Skill Set

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Understanding of SEO principles.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

Technical Outputs:

Perform Planning

• Identify and establish objectives for self and team.
• Work on objectives or goals within the timeline.
• Consider all reasonable factors, impediments, and obstacles.
• Identify potential alternative strategies and refactor approach for maximum benefit within the shortest possible time.

Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Functionally Complete

• Deliver a solution that covers all the agreed-specified tasks and user objectives.
• Deliver a correct solution that provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision.
• Ensure checked-in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Reliable

• Ensure the solution performs appropriately under agreed conditions for extended periods without the need for intervention (despite potential attacks)
• Ensure all steps are taken to reduce the occurrence of faults due to misunderstood requirements, design errors, and implementation errors.
• Ensure the solution is robust and remains continually available.
• Respond to outages and failures when and where needed.
• Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal.
• Ensure complete data recoverability so that data may be recovered, and the desired state of the solution can be re- established (despite potential attacks).
• Ensure the solution is maintainable, and actively seek methods to reduce downtime.
• Ensure the solution is durable so that as user volumes and requirements change the solution can evolve over the long term.
• Ensure the solution simplifies support and maintenance support through traceability and effective error messaging.
• Ensure over time, the solution becomes more mature where the interval between the interventions remain
• operational become less frequent.
• Ensure in the event of a failure reduce effective downtime is to the minimum possible.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security

• Ensure the solution is secure, and confidential by protecting all information and data (also data transmission).
• Ensure persons or other solutions have the degree of access appropriate to their level of authorization and types.
• Ensure the solution has high integrity where the solution prevents unauthorized access to, or modification of computer programs, data, or settings.
• Ensure the solution has a high degree of survivability despite third-party interventions (attacks, human errors, hardware or software faults).
• Employ logs and records so that actions and events can be proven to have taken place and cannot be disputed/ repudiated later.
• Ensure wherever possible actions can be traced uniquely to the entity that performed them.
• Ensure wherever possible the identity of an entity can be proved to be the correct one.

Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Maintainable

• Ensure the solution and its relevant code base support ease of modification for future maintainers.
• Ensure the use of appropriate standards and methods.
• Ensure where possible (without affecting performance/security) the solution caters to maintenance by support teams rather than developers.
• Ensure modularity where the solution consists of discrete components so that a change in one component has minimal impact on other components.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to the support team to reduce the development support burden.
• Apply a strategy of reusability so an asset can be used in more than one solution or in building other assets.
• Where possible provide a mechanism for the solution to analyze its faults and provide reports before a critical failure.
• Develop the solution in a manner that supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the number of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Verify Deployed Solutions

• Ensure the solution is delivered completely and with the additional assets which are required to make installation/deployment as seamless and easy as possible.
• Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving, software or other operational usage environments.

Respond to Outages & Failures

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support, and Operational teams so the number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximizing development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’ solutions.
• Perform troubleshooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce intervention required over time.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Maintain solutions that have completed development and are in the operations phase.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

Direct 3rd Party Development Partners

• When required supply appropriate information, domain knowledge, and access to partners.
• Provide timely, relevant, and constructive feedback to assist the partner to achieve success.
• Take corrective action when deviation from the plan is observed.
• Take all appropriate steps to ensure organizational success.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or related field.
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Understanding of server-side CSS.
• At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment
• 2-5 years SQL/ database Experience
• Preferably Experience in document stores such as Couchbase would be advantageous
• Preferably Experience in Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka would be advantageous
• 2-5 years C# experience.
• 2-5 years .net core experience.
• 2-5 years of restful api experience.

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Skill Set

• Attention to detail
• Programming Languages
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Attention to detail
• Data Structures and algorithms 
• Communication and collaboration

Responsibilities

Technical Outputs:

 Design Fit for Purpose Solutions & Algorithms 

• Design solutions using most appropriate approved architectural pattern. 
• Design solutions for multi-tier architectures. 
• Ensure design meets best practices and are Test, DevOps and Support friendly.

Perform Planning 

• Identify and establish objectives for self. 
• Work on objectives or goals within timeline. 
• Consider all reasonable factors, impediments, and obstacles.

Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Functionally Complete 

• Deliver a solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives. 
• Deliver a correct solution which provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision. 
• Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution has a High Usability Factor 

• Ensure the user/s of the solution can achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction.
• Ensure the system logically supports user self-learning on how to use the system with effectiveness and efficiency. 
• Ensure the solution protects the user against making errors. 
• Ensure the user interface is pleasing and presents a satisfying interaction for the user.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Reliable 

• Ensure the solution performs appropriately under agreed conditions for extended periods of time without the need for intervention (despite potential attacks). 
• Ensure all steps are taken to reduce the occurrence of faults due to misunderstood requirements, design errors, and implementation errors. 
• Respond to outages and failures when and where needed. 
• Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal. 
• Ensure the solution is maintainable, and actively seek methods to reduce down-time. 
• Ensure the solution is durable so that as user volumes and requirements change the solution can evolve over the long term. 
• Ensure the solution simplifies support and maintenance support through traceability, and effective error messaging.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security

• Ensure the solution is secure, and confidential by protecting all information and data (also data transmission). 
• Ensure persons or other solutions have the degree of access appropriate to their level of authorization and types. 
• Ensure the solution has high integrity where the solution prevents unauthorised access to, modification of computer programs, data, or settings. 
• Ensure the solution has a high degree of survivability despite third-Party interventions (attacks, human errors, hardware, or software faults). 
• Employ logs and records so that actions and events can be proven to have taken place and cannot be disputed/ repudiated later. 
• Ensure wherever actions can be traced uniquely to the entity which performed it. 
• Ensure wherever possible the identify of an entity can be proved to be the correct one.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Maintainable 

•  Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support burden.

Respond to Outages & Failures 

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams so number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time. 
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s. 
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’ solutions. 
• Perform trouble shooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce intervention required over time. 
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions. 
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness. 
• Maintain solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase. 
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation. 
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

Behavioral Outputs:

Adaptably Resilient

• Adapts to change and is open to innovative ideas and willing to take on new responsibilities. 
• Able to manage pressure and can effectively adjust plans to meet changing needs/demands. 
• Changes his/her interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstances. 
• Adapts behavior to maintain cooperative relationships with others. 
• Accepts changes to task, plans and procedures to align with strategic direction of the organization and appropriately adjusts behavior and activities to changing conditions. 
• Maintains a positive attitude in the face of change.

Decision Making Quality

• Makes confident, timely, fact-based decisions drawing on a broad range of resources through collaboration with others. 
• Ensures others understand the decision before moving forward. 
• Considers short- and long-term implications of the decision. 
• Able to logically defend and explain judgements and decisions. 
• Takes steps to accurately define the problem before seeking a solution. 
• Bases decisions and evaluations on a careful and systematic review of relevant facts and information.

Resourceful and improving 

• Generates new ideas and challenges the status quo, takes risk, supports change, and encourages innovation. 
• Searches for opportunity to create new ideas and innovate or improve efficiencies wherever possible. 
• Solves problems through questioning the status quo.

Living our Spirit:

• Engages in cross-functional collaboration and problem solving whilst encouraging a culture of inclusivity. 
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by supporting other Team Members not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole. 
• Shows up in an authentic manner and leverages off the team’s diversity to achieve deliverables. 
• Views challenges as opportunities to expand on their knowledge base and takes a creative approach to overcoming the challenges.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 years’ experience within a development environment is advantageous. 
• 1-year database experience is advantageous. 
• 1 - 2 years server/ client-side language is advantageous.
• Good written and verbal communication skills. 
• Strong attention to detail.

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Skill Set

• Strong attention to detail.
• Knowledge of design principles and fundamentals of architecture.
• Demonstrated leadership/mentoring skills.
• Detailed knowledge of the SDLC and management of software projects. 
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification.
• Adaptability to change.

Responsibilities

Design Fit for Purpose Solutions & Algorithms & planning.

• Actively contribute to design and planning meetings, discussions and documentation.
• Design solutions using most appropriate approved architectural pattern.
• Ensure design patterns used are increasing the organisational levels of high-volume transactional performance, resilience, automation and innovation.
• Ensure design meets best practices and are Test, DevOps and Support friendly • Identify and establish objectives for self and team. 
• Set objectives/goals based on the team’s chosen software development methodology to successfully complete projects.
• Consider all reasonable factors, impediments and obstacles.
• Identify potential alternative strategies and refactor approach for maximum benefit within the shortest possible time.
• Formulate supporting plans and communicate with others in terms of dependencies and impact.  
• Publish plan to, peers and stakeholders through agreed methods.

Implementation of a solution that is complete, efficient and compatible

• Deliver a complete solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives Deliver a correct solution which provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision.
• Deliver an appropriate solution which facilitates the accomplishments of specified tasks and objectives comprehensively yet excluding unnecessary steps.
• Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound. 
• Deliver a solution in which throughput rates & response and processing times meet stated requirements. 
• Deliver a solution in which effective/efficient resource utilisation of system resources occurs during operation.
• Deliver a solution which ensures the maximum operational capacity requirement is achieved or exceeded.  
• Deliver a solution which can effectively/efficiently exchange information with other products, systems or components.
• Deliver a solution which performs efficiently and can co-exist with other solutions and does not have a detrimental impact on other solutions.

Implementation – Advises on the Solution and/or actions allocated tasks to ensure it has a High Usability Factor

• Ensure the user/s of the solution can achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.
• Ensure the user of the system can comfortably recognise the systems flow, functions and capabilities of the system. 
• Ensure the system logically supports user self-learning on how to use the system with effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ensure the solution protects the user against making errors. 
• Ensure the user interface is pleasing and presents a satisfying interaction for the user.
• Actions the proposed solution thus ensuring that it is accessible and can be used by people with the widest range of characteristics, capabilities, cultures and languages where appropriate.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Reliable 

• Ensure the solution performs appropriately under agreed conditions for extended periods of time without the need for intervention (despite potential attacks).
• Ensure all steps are taken to reduce the occurrence of faults due to misunderstood requirements, design errors, and implementation errors. 
• Ensure the solution is robust and remains continually available.
• Respond to outages and failures when and where needed.
• Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal. 
• Ensure complete data recoverability so that data may be recovered, and the desired state of the solution can be re-established (despite potential attacks).
• Ensure the solution is maintainable, and actively seeks methods to reduce down-time. 
• Ensure the solution is durable so that as user volumes and requirements change the solution can evolve over the long term
• Ensure the solution simplifies support and maintenance support through traceability, and effective error messaging. 
• Ensure over time, the solution becomes more mature where the interval between the interventions to remain operational become less frequent.
• Ensure in the event of a failure reduce effective downtime is to the minimum possible.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security

• Ensure the solution is secure, and confidential by protecting all information and data (also data transmission). 
• Ensure persons or other solutions have the degree of access appropriate to their level of authorization and types. 
• Ensure the solution has high integrity where the solution prevents unauthorised access to, modification of computer programs, data or settings.
• Ensure the solution has a high degree of survivability despite 3rd-Party interventions (attacks, human errors, hardware or software faults). 
• Employ logs and records so that actions and events can be proven to have taken place and cannot be disputed/ repudiated later Ensure wherever possible actions can be traced uniquely to the entity which performed it. 
• Ensure wherever possible the identify of an entity can be proved to be the correct one.

Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Maintainable.

• Ensure the solution and its relevant code base supports ease of modification for future maintainers.
• Ensure the use of appropriate standards and methods.
• Ensure where possible (without affecting performance/security) the solution caters for maintenance by support teams rather than developers.
• Ensure modularity where the solution consists of discrete components so that a change in one component has minimal impact on other components.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support burden.
• Apply a strategy of reusability so an asset can be used in more than one solution or in building other assets.
• Where possible provide a mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
• Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Testing, verification and deploying 

• Ensure the solution is test friendly by creating effective mechanisms for test data, automated testing hooks and simulations.
• Ensure the solution is delivered completely and with the additional assets which are required to make installation/deployment as seamless and easy as possible.
• Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving hardware, software or other operational usage environments.

Respond to Outages & Failures 

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams so number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’ solutions.
• Perform trouble shooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce intervention required over time.
•  Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Maintain solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase.
• Develop technical support documentation and where possible/necessary, maintain the documentation.
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

Coaching/Mentoring 

• Provides guidance, training, and problem-solving assistance to other Team Members. 
• Mentors and contributes to the growth of junior and intermediate Team Members.
• Designs and delivers end-user training and training materials.

Living the spirit: 

•  Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team. 
• Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team. 
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging Team Members to support each other not only within the department, but within the business as a whole. 
• Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or similar field (advantageous).
• At least 5 years’ experience within a development environment.
• Knowledge of design principles and fundamentals of architecture. 
• Demonstrated leadership/mentoring skills. 
• Detailed knowledge of the SDLC and management of software projects.
•  Good written and verbal communication skills. 
• Strong attention to detail.