Job Recruitment at AVeS Cyber Security

• We’re looking to expand our team with a confident, vibrant, energetic, self-driven, and influential Sales Specialist, to help our business achieve sustainable growth and strengthen our position in the market as a People Enablement Sales Specialist.

Life of a Sales Specialist:

• You will work closely with the team leader to deliver this value-add. Here’s how:
• Identify opportunities and research customer needs and contact persons,
• Generate new Sales by mining existing client base,
• Generate new Sales by souring new opportunities,
• Engage with customers as a trusted advisor, listening and understanding their challenges and requirements - both technical and business, and develop an appropriate solution,
• Respond to customer requests for quotations, proposals, and build cost-effective solutions,
• Setup Meetings, and Present solutions,
• Follow the Sales Process and prepare quotations and ensure they are received by clients,
• Ensure updated Sales Pipeline forecast, and Tracker through CRM
• Meet Sales deadlines,
• Consistently meet and exceed revenue targets,
• Develop and maintain strong customer relations with existing and prospective clients,
• Ensure that the sales commitment is delivered on by contributing to the implementation process.

Mandatory (and minimum) experience:

• Minimum of 3 years Sales experience,
• Experience in Presentations,
• Experience in writing proposals,
• Mandatory (and minimum) skills requirements:
• Excellent verbal, and written communication skills (English, other languages are advantageous),
• Excellent presentation skills,
• Excellent work ethic: energetic, get-things-done attitude and take responsibility to deliver positive results beyond expectations,
• Excellent Customer-centric sales skills and ability to build productive, growth-focused business relationships,
• Excellent proficiency in computer literacy and Microsoft 365 applications (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel),
• Excellent attention to detail,
• Excellent People skills, and being able to work in a team,
• Well-developed ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines,
• Ability to be self-motivated and manage own daily task delivery,
• Ability to travel to work and to clients with own, reliable transport (we are situated near Clearwater Mall in Johannesburg).

Advantageous skills:

• Experience or knowledge of Cyber Security, and Change Management
• Bachelor’s degree
• Existing Client relationships and contacts

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You will work closely with our Practice architects and other consultants to deliver A-quality Services to AVeS Cyber Security that will in turn be published to our clients, here’s how:

• Research, Design and Development of new Solutions and Systems.
• Testing and evaluating new solutions.
• Identifying areas for modification in existing solutions and developing these changes.
• Writing and implementing efficient code.
• Deploying solutions processes and metrics.
• Integrating solutions and third-party programs or applications.
• Troubleshoot, Debug and upgrade new and existing solutions.
• Create technical documentation for referencing and reporting.
• Plug into AVeS team to understand where application development may increase productivity and customer experience.
• Knowledge of Development Lifecycles
• Uphold AVeS development standards and processes.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Supporting the Business Practices and stakeholders as per the defined KPI’s.
• Maintaining MSA/SLA agreements and executing the contractual agreements.
• Executing all other work according to defined KPI’s.

Qualifications

Mandatory qualifications:

• Matric.
• Certifications relating to the requirements listed throughout this job description.

Advantageous qualifications:

• Vendor certifications.

Experience

Mandatory experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of administration working experience.
• Knowledge and experience in coding languages (C#, Apache, MySQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Java) and frameworks/systems (e.g. AngularJS) and version control systems (e.g. Git).
• Experience with software design and development in a test-driven environment.
• Experience in Linux system administration.
• Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping frameworks.
• Proven experience as a Backend Software Developer, Software Engineer or similar role.
• Experience working with CRM systems and backend development of such systems.

Advantageous experience:

• Knowledge in Python, and API Soap/Rest would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of the OWASP-10 framework and principles.

Skills & Competencies

Mandatory (and minimum) skills requirements:

• Ability to learn new languages and technologies.
• Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English, and other languages are advantageous).
• Excellent work ethic: energetic, get-things-done attitude and take responsibility to deliver positive results beyond expectations.
• Solid proficiency in computer literacy and Microsoft Office stack.
• Understanding of general security and networking principles.
• Team player, able to work in a team and get along well with senior management.
• Ability to recommend solutions to improve efficiency.

Advantageous skills:

• BSC Information technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Governance Framework Knowledge (Cobit 2019, ISO 27001, ITIL etc).
• Well-developed and effective communication and presentation skills.
• Ability and competence to write technical material for training, and white papers using applications such as PowerPoint, Word, and Visio.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and handle confrontation when necessary.
• Ability to create accurate architectural designs.

Applications close on 17 February 2023