Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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Key Purpose
Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.
A Senior Java Developer position is available in the APS team to work on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, the intermediate Java developer will help the business to address changes through technologies.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The Senior Java developer must have a competent understanding of:
- The system development life cycle and can explain the Java developer role in each stage
- The defined system development tools, processes and workflows
- The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
- The importance of delivering high quality source codes and how to achieve it
- The technologies used and the systems components structure
- The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations
- The Senior Java developer should be able to demonstrate that they can:
- Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
- Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
- Perform accurate development estimation
- Produce technical specifications and designs.
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
- Present to senior stakeholders
- Offer support and guidance to junior and intermediate Java developers
- Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture
- Passionate about technology and development.
- Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
- Able to work with the team to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements.
- Within 6 months of being in the position, a senior Java developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.
Personal Attributes and Skills
Competencies:
- Analytical thinking
- Personal organisation and time management skills
- Technical and business writing skills
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Communication skills (written, verbal/presenting and listening)
- Stress management Customer focused
- Results oriented
- Able to resolve conflict
- Creative
- Innovative
- Self-driven
- Attention to detail
- Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job level
Education & Experience
Minimum
- 5 years Senior Java systems development experience.
- Java EE knowledge and experience.
- Experience with XML/XSD/JAXB, SOAP & Restful Services
- Unit testing and mocking frameworks.
- Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic).
- Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
Preferred
- Strong Java developer who not only understands the fundamentals of OO principles and methodologies but further knows how to apply them. APS require strong Java candidates to join an exciting and dynamic team.
- 5+ years Java systems development experience
- Java EE
- Deep understanding of Spring framework, specifically (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Web Services, Spring Security, etc.)
- Maven
- ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience
- JMS, Tibco experience
- Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
- Presentation layer development
- JSP
- HTML5
- CSS
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Angular
- Spring MVC
- Exposure to Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development
- Unit testing, automate testing using different testing frameworks
- Exposure to source control systems (GIT / Stash, etc.)
Advantageous
- Linux and load balancing (Apache, LVS, F5) knowledge
- Technical lead experience
- Behavioral Characteristic
Equity Statement
Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and suitable internal candidates in line with Discovery’s policies.
Close Date: 2017/07/31
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Job description
Key Purpose
This Position falls within the Technical Infrastructure department and reports to the network manager. The Network Engineer will be responsible for managing and maintaining Discovery Holdings’ LAN and WAN.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The successful candidate will be required to perform on but not limited to the following key outputs:
- Design, implementation and maintenance of all LAN services including escalation to local vendors.
- Design, implementation and maintenance of all WAN services including escalation to local and international Telco’s
- Design, implementation and maintenance of Cisco routers and switches both on the LAN and Wan infrastructure
- Responsible for network resilience and testing of fail over capabilities to disaster recovery site.
- Manage QoS in the environment
- Implement and maintain BGP , OSPF and EIGRP
- Implement Design and Maintain MPLS L2 and L3
- Documentation of technical specifications and DR requirements
- Ensure a project management approach to all activities is maintained
- Plan design, implementation and support of new Cisco Technologies
- Implementation and maintenance of Cisco Prime Infrastructure
- Produce monthly reports which includes availability and capacity
- Be available for standby and weekend change control window
- Server installations and maintenance
- Support monitoring and troubleshooting of the above environments. Server installations and maintenance
- Support WIFI networks and have a clear understanding of the various technologies associated with Wireless like survey , signal analysis and AP/WLC configurations
- A good conception understanding of Software Defined Networking
Personal Attributes and Skills
Competencies:
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:
- Analyse data and all other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns and relationships.
- Easily establishes good relationships with customers and staff.
- Takes initiative and works under own direction as well as takes responsibility for actions, projects and people.
- Expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly.
- Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise.
- Makes rational judgments from the available information and analysis.
- Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem.
Education & Experience
The successful candidate must hold the following qualifications and have the following experience:
- A Valid CISCO CCNP
- + 7 years and more experience in Cisco
- +5 years on other Core technologies (Microsoft, Linux, )
- Routing and Switching experience
- Strong QoS experience
- Strong MPLS skills and overall Routing Experience
- Solid VOIP Skills Some Firewall Experience – limited to 2 years
- Must have worked with a fairly large Infrastructure or Corporate (500 Users Plus)
Equity Statement
Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and suitable internal candidates in line with Discovery’s policies.
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Job description
Key Purpose
The role of the Linux and Internet Specialist entails the administration and maintenance of the Linux infrastructure for Discovery Limited, which includes the Sandton Campus and International initiatives. This user should also have the ability to plan and implement new solutions based on business requirements and should have strong networking and development knowledge.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Administer Linux Servers
- Administer Cisco Firewalls
- Administer Palo Alto Firewalls
- Administer middleware application Servers
- Automate tasks on Linux servers
- Administer Apache Web Servers
- Work against project deadlines
- Develop and implement new solutions based on a wide variety of different technologies.
Personal Attributes and Skills
Technical Skills:
- Linux
- Perl/Python/PHP/BASH
- Strong Networking Knowledge
- Strong Firewall Knowledge
- Troubleshooting skills
- Strong understanding of technologies such as LDAP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP
- Wide array of knowledge on different products.
- Exposure to enterprise tools.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Experience in 2 factor authentication systems.
- Experience with remote access/VPN solutions.
Education & Experience
- Grade 12
- RHCE or higher preferred
- 5+ years Linux experience
- 1+ years firewall experience
- 1+ year development experience preferable
Equity Statement
Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and suitable internal candidates in line with Discovery’s policies.
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