Job Vacancies at Parvana

Client Background:

• Although this organisation is over 15 years old and very stable, it has retained it's start-up energy level. The focus on strong relationships with both clients and staff. The team is energetic, innovative and enjoys continuous improvement, collaboration and knowledge building in a truly Agile manner.
• The organization is strongly Microsoft aligned with proven Azure capabilities. Based in the CBD, they have progressive views about flexi-time and remote work opportunities. You would be rewarded with a monthly bonus program, 18 +days annual leave and numerous other benefits. It is a highly cosmopolitan work environment with a very flat organisational structure offering a variety of promotional opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Designing solutions for customers from existing templates and solutions sets.
• Implementing digital transformation technologies.
• Providing technical assistance for implementations.
• Driving digital adoption.
• Providing support to resolve IT queries.
• Assisting on the service desk when required.
• Problem management by identifying root cause analysis and problem resolution.
• Identifying opportunities for developing new projects, processes or templates.
• Creating and maintaining accurate documentation and tooling.
• Conducting monthly checks on back-ups.

Skills / Experience:

• 5+ years’ proven work experience as Technical Support Specialist or similar role.
• Proven experience with strategic planning, problem solving and supporting Microsoft environments.
• Proven experience with Office 365, Active Directory, SQL, Azure and Microsoft Exchange.
• Proven experience with installing, maintaining and troubleshooting networks - LAN and wireless networks, firewalls, DHCP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Good understanding of the ITIL Framework.
• Brilliant with a support ticketing system and experience in beating SLA targets.
• Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control.
• Hands-on experience with project management tools.

Advantageous Skills / Experience:

• Experience with Autotask or Nable.
• Microsoft Certified Professional - MCSE, MCSA.
• Microsoft SharePoint, Teams Implementation Experience.
• Sophos Certified Engineer.
• Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist.
• Mimecast certified.

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Client Background:
In a world, where the internet and technology has altered the way we conduct business, our client helps their customers adapt, compete and grow their businesses.

Our client continuously improves their knowledge, skills, practices and tools that they use in order to deliver the latest technology solutions to their customers.
Responsibilities:

• Developing new user-facing features.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.

Skills / Experience:

• 6+ years’ experience.
• Experience working with JavaScript and Rust.
• Experience working with Front-end technologies, including:
• React and Apollo (GraphGL Client).
• Experience working with Back-end technologies, including:
• Apollo Server (GraphQL Server) | Redis.
• MongoDB | Kafka | Express | NGINX.
• CI/CD and Cloud computing experience.
• Experience in handling architecture, development processes and development.
• Experience in building next generation web applications.
• Experience in utilizing client-side technologies to develop responsive user experience.
• Experience in setting up frameworks from scratch.

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Client Background:
Responsibilities:

• Craft architectures, proof of concepts or demonstrations.
• Shaping and designing highly available systems / solutions.

Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• AWS certification(s) would be ideal

Skills / Experience:

• Relevant experience working as an Architect with a focus on AWS.
• Experience working within a software development environment.
• Ability to create proof of concepts, demos and/or scripts from scratch.
• Understanding and articulating common architectural patterns and design principles.
• Ability to lead complex technical projects.

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Client Background:
Responsibilities:

• Working on complex challenges.
• Delivering end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions.
• Assisting on larger projects or running smaller opportunities independently.
• Designing, deploying and managing AWS Cloud systems.

Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary degree
• AWS certification(s) would be ideal

Skills / Experience:

• 5+ years of experience as a technical specialist.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language.

Experience with the following:

• Automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications and provisioning infrastructure.
• Developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with Microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes and/or serverless technology.
• Full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.

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Client Background:

• Our client is an international highly successful software development house with a niche focus on the telecommunications and payment gateway sector.
• With almost 20 years of track record, this company is well recognised as a discerning employer. Their training and mentorship program is unsurpassed. Most staff will be highly qualified academically however all will be collaborative, have an Agile mind-set and all enjoying learning new things.
• Continuous improvement is a way of life which is reflected in a flat organisational organogram where each employee is encouraged to come up with new solutions.
• Each person is encouraged to work on their strengths and for those that are ambitious, this is the best organisation to fast track your way up the career ladder. Equally those that enjoy routine are encouraged and supported to be subject matter experts within their chosen skill set.

Responsibilities:

• Following security best practices in performing tasks.
• Active participation in the SDLC process of existing and new apps and features.
• Helping the organization evolve its application security functions and services.
• Responsible for upholding code reviews across all code platforms.
• Providing leadership for application vulnerability scanning and penetration testing remediation.
• Discover security exposures and develop mitigation plans, and report and fix the technical debt.
• Function as a subject matter expert for security solutions.
• Sharing knowledge of common and emerging security threats.
• Working closely with various teams while carrying out daily tasks.

Qualifications:

• Relevant IT Degree
• Java 8 certification
• CompTIA Network+ / Security+

Skills / Experience:

• Java experience
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience working with the following:
• Docker | OpenSSL | OWASP ZAP / Burp Suite
• DefectDojo | Nessus / Tenable.io
• Technical knowledge of secure coding best practices (e.g. CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard).
• Experience with Network protocols such as TCP, HTTP and HTTPS
• Ability to detect security vulnerabilities in code.
• Thorough knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture.
• Well-versed in application and infrastructure security.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of web related technologies (Servlet-based or Spring-based applications)
• Knowledge of applied cryptography (i.e., encryption, hashing and signing algorithms).
• Knowledge of software design and implementation.
• Strong familiarity with web protocols.
• Experience in the following would be ideal:
• CIS Benchmark documentation and implementation thereof.
• PCI-DSS certification process.

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Client Background:

• A genteel, highly professional and stable organisation, this client has grown steadily since the 1990's without ever retrenching anyone. They hire for attitude and train for skill. Most staff have been there for over 10 years and they seldom leave.
• Flexi-time, generous bonuses and the opportunity to learn and continuously evolve is encouraged. They follow an Agile methodology and are involved in a wide range of services designed for the medical aid, financial institutions and the telco sector.
• A cornerstone of the business is research and innovation and continuous improvement. This environment is best suited to someone who enjoys learning, collaboration and working in a team.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the project plan - Managing the project plan according to agreed client project targets.
• Monitoring progress to achieve milestones / overruns.
• Handling all communication between the client and customer.
• Providing regular and transparent feedback on project progress to stakeholders.
• Managing changed events affecting project timelines.
• Leading planning and/or implementation of projects.
• Participating in the design and/or testing phases when necessary.
• Facilitating the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements.
• Resolving or assisting in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas.
• Developing methods to monitor project or area progress; and providing corrective supervision if necessary.
• Responsibility for assembling the project staff; for their technical or functional development, performance, and/or termination during the project or projects.
• Managing project budget and resource allocation.
• Facilitating the definition of service levels and customer requirements.
• Interacting regularly with existing or potential clients to determine their needs and to develop plans for improving delivery.
• Advocating on behalf of clients and representing clients' needs as appropriate to senior management.
• Working cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes.
• Following a defined, agreed upon project management plan.
• Leading the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of plans and programs to meet the goals and priorities of the department.
• Cultivating contacts with vendor requirement planners or developers - to obtain information about future vendor developments in the functional area and to try to influence those developments in ways favorable to our client.
• Participating in outside professional activities to maintain knowledge on developments in the field.
• Establishing liaisons with universities and other comparable vendor users to keep abreast of status of computing and communications activities at these institutions.
• Continuously improving project management toolkits and methodologies used.
• Providing expertise and consulting to project managers in the process of project management and in the softer skills of team dynamics, team building and group motivation.

Skills / Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• 3 - 5 years project management experience.
• Experience working in an Agile environment essential.
• Good attitude and aptitude with enthusiasm to achieve.
• Knowledge and experience in Software Development industry essential.
• Financial services and/or life insurance and/or risk.

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Client Background:

• Our client has customers in the US, UK and South Africa which they support via their offices in Cape Town, South Africa and London.
• Development is done in Cape Town and our client utilise the Scrum methodology enabling them to be nimble and accurate in the development of products for both on-premise and cloud implementations. Their focus is to create and manage business critical documents needed for RFI’s, RFP’s and general record keeping efficiently and accurately. The software is incredibly powerful but highly intuitive and very easy to use taking advantage of cloud technology.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and monitoring project plans and project schedules.
• Working with various members of the team in managing resources.
• Organizing, attending and participating in stakeholder meetings.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensuring project deadlines are met.
• Providing administrative support.
• Undertaking project tasks as required.
• Ensuring projects adhere to framework and all documentation is maintained.
• Assessing project risks and issues and providing solutions.
• Assisting in ensuring solutions are realistically deliverable.
• Ensuring accurate and complete technical documentation.
• Considering technical interdependencies of projects.
• Analysing risk and reporting problems.

Skills / Experience:

• 7 years work experience and at least 3 years in a similar role.
• Project management, coordination or administration experience.
• Experience working on software based projects.
• Excellent command of the English language.
• Good communication skills across all levels.
• Able to grasp and communicate complex, technical concepts on a high level.
• Able to mediate opposing viewpoints.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong leadership skills - high level of drive, initiative; assertive.
• Adaptable and ability to multitask.

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Client Background:
Responsibilities:

• Performing improvements and optimisations.
• Creating and implementing design plans.
• Ensuring optimal QA, through strict coding, proper solution design and appropriate testing.
• Staying abreast with current industry trends and technological developments, particularly within e-Commerce.
• Driving project innovation.
• Training / Mentoring and supporting peers
• Participating in code reviews and providing feedback.

Skills / Experience:

• 7 years of experience in development with PHP5 OOP (Zend Framework experience is a plus, Yii, Symfony, Laravel and CakePHP are also valued).
• Experience with the following technologies:
• PHP 7 | PHP 5 OOP | Laravel | Yii | MVC
• ZendExpressive (Part of ZendFramework)
• HTML5 | CSS | Sass | jQuery | PHPUnit | REST | JSON | SOAP
• Ubuntu | Mac OS X | Nginx | MySQL (mariadb)
• Memcache | Redis | Solr / Elasticsearch
• Git | Docker | Google Cloud Hosting (advantageous)
• DevOps tools: New Relic, Puppet, Nagios, Cloudflare, Ansible, Jenkins (advantageous)
• Google Cloud Hosting and DevOps experience are advantageous.
• Good understanding of Clean Code practices.

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Client Background:

• Our client is an international highly successful software development house with a niche focus on the telecommunications and payment gateway sector.
• With almost 20 years of track record, this company is well recognised as a discerning employer. Their training and mentorship program is unsurpassed. Most staff will be highly qualified academically however all will be collaborative, have an Agile mind-set and all enjoying learning new things.
• Continuous improvement is a way of life which is reflected in a flat organisational organogram where each employee is encouraged to come up with new solutions.
• Each person is encouraged to work on their strengths and for those that are ambitious, this is the best organisation to fast track your way up the career ladder. Equally those that enjoy routine are encouraged and supported to be subject matter experts within their chosen skill set.

Responsibilities:

• Will work as an Engineer for the Big Data Platform Engineering Team.
• Will be responsible to build, tune and perform operational efficiency on the production clusters.
• Will be responsible to automate and monitor health of the Operational clusters.
• Will be responsible to work closely with the development and application support teams to deliver/resolve issues as part of Big Data Infrastructure engineering and operations.
• Will be responsible to install/support Big Data Components e. g. Hadoop
• Strong Hadoop with the below qualification is required to apply for this position.

Qualifications:

• Graduate in Engineering or related technical field.
• Hadoop Admin Certification is good to have.
• Red Hat Certification is good to have.

Skills / Experience:

• 8+ years of working experience in Linux or Unix system administration
• 2+ years of experience in Configuring and setting up Big Data / Hadoop clusters in production environments is preferred.
• 2+ years of work experience in maintaining, optimization and issue resolution of Hadoop / Big Data Platform clusters is preferred.
• Hands-on Experience in SQL (Oracle) and Databases .
• Experience to build server(s), clustering, Performance tunings and troubleshooting 
• Networking concept and experience (TCP/IP and related protocols) is plus.
• Knowledge in Python / Perl / shell scripting 
• Experience with automated configuration management is preferred.
• Knowledge with Linux container technology is a plus.

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Client Background:
Responsibilities:

• Managing the integrity, quality & aspiration of all creatives / concepts developed.
• Performing improvements and quality management of the code base.
• Prioritising bug fixes appropriately and actioning them in a timely manner.
• Refactoring where appropriate and proactively proposing improvements / optimisations.
• Consulting with end-users and stakeholders on deliverables with regards to usability.
• Solution design and appropriate testing through strict coding.
• Developing / implementing UX solutions.

Skills / Experience:

Experience working with the following technologies:

• JavaScript | HTML5 | CSS3 | Sass | Bower | Bootstrap 3.
• JS Frameworks and libraries such as AngularJS / jQuery / Vue.
• Responsive design | REST | JSON.
• Back-end technologies such as PHP / MySQL / Ubuntu / Nginx etc.
• Version control with Git | Build systems such as Gulp / Grunt.
• NodeJS & NPM | Unit & integration testing.
• Knowledge of SEO and Content Management Systems.
• Experience with command line / terminal.
• Experience with creating email templates for marketing campaigns.
• Experience working in an Agile Environment.

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Client Background:

• Our client is an international highly successful software development house with a niche focus on the telecommunications and payment gateway sector.
• With almost 20 years of track record, this company is well recognised as a discerning employer. Their training and mentorship program is unsurpassed. Most staff will be highly qualified academically however all will be collaborative, have an Agile mind-set and all enjoying learning new things.
• Continuous improvement is a way of life which is reflected in a flat organisational organogram where each employee is encouraged to come up with new solutions.
• Each person is encouraged to work on their strengths and for those that are ambitious, this is the best organisation to fast track your way up the career ladder. Equally those that enjoy routine are encouraged and supported to be subject matter experts within their chosen skill set.

Responsibilities:

• Providing contract and commercial negotiations administrative support
• Help with research, draft documents
• Conducting investigations and statistical / documentary research.
• Analyse and mitigate potential risks involved with specific contract terms.
• Collaborate with functional counterparts to manage issues related to data, privacy and other matters.
• Attention to detail is a must, as well as an ability to understand the bigger picture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to relay legal concepts, policies, documents in a manner easily understood by non-lawyers.
• Must enjoy working cross-functionally with many different teams.
• Flexibility to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment as we continue to grow our business internationally.

Qualifications:

• Qualified lawyer in good standing
• Completed Articles

Skills / Experience:

• Strong communication skills - verbal and written
• Ability to juggle multiple activities and work under pressure.

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Client Background:

• Our client is an international highly successful software development house with a niche focus on the telecommunications and payment gateway sector.
• With almost 20 years of track record, this company is well recognised as a discerning employer. Their training and mentorship program is unsurpassed. Most staff will be highly qualified academically however all will be collaborative, have an Agile mind-set and all enjoying learning new things.
• Continuous improvement is a way of life which is reflected in a flat organisational organogram where each employee is encouraged to come up with new solutions.
• Each person is encouraged to work on their strengths and for those that are ambitious, this is the best organisation to fast track your way up the career ladder. Equally those that enjoy routine are encouraged and supported to be subject matter experts within their chosen skill set.

Responsibilities:

• Integrate software into AWS services
• Develop scalable, resilient and pragmatic solutions which meet technical, security, and business needs for applications and workloads.
• Test and deploy cloud-based services to support real-time analytics workloads.
• Automate repeatable tasks to create efficiencies in our workflows and enable freedom for innovation.
• Champion good engineering practices and help teams to define and set up frameworks for cloud adoption and consumption.
• Contribute to technology strategy, engineering roadmaps, and proof of concept use cases.

Skills / Experience:

• 3 - 5 years relevant experience.
• Deep technical knowledge of AWS services (AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, AWS Redshift, S3 etc.)
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
• Ability to cultivate effective working relationships with internal teams and customers.
• Experience with multi user, complex software applications.
• Experience with provisioning, monitoring and maintaining cloud services.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience with Agile Software development methodologies.Excellent collaboration and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of one or more programming languages and willingness to adapt and learn new ones.

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Client Background:

• Our client has customers in the US, UK and South Africa which they support via their offices in Cape Town, South Africa and London.
• Development is done in Cape Town and our client utilise the Scrum methodology enabling them to be nimble and accurate in the development of products for both on-premise and cloud implementations. Their focus is to create and manage business critical documents needed for RFI’s, RFP’s and general record keeping efficiently and accurately. The software is incredibly powerful but highly intuitive and very easy to use taking advantage of cloud technology.

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging automation for scalable solutions to prevent regressions and ensure reliability of the product.
• Defining / driving QA processes and test strategies applying industry best practices.
• Defining Quality Metrics and implementing measurements / reports.
• Be hands-on and perform QA tasks.
• Developing and executing test plans and test cases: Identifying testable requirements and setting up test data.
• Act as a key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases.
• Logging, communicating, prioritising and updating defects using defect tracking tools.
• Defining root cause and preventative actions for production defects.
• Proactively drive continuous improvements.
• Leading a team of software QA and Automation test engineers.
• Reviewing / mentoring team members in creating manual and automation test cases.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT or related degree.
• ISTQB / ISEB certified or recognised testing qualification / accreditation and / or training in testing disciplines.

Skills / Experience:

• 7 years’ testing experience within a SaaS development team.
• Experience with the CI/CD methodology, this enables accuracy in the development of our client's products for cloud implementations.
• Test documentation skills.
• Methodical, a self-starter and passionate about quality.

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Client Background:
Responsibilities:

• Developing and executing the Brand Strategy.
• Strategic analysis and review of the business and brand on a continuous basis.
• Managing all brand partnerships.
• Identifying strategic brand growth opportunities.
• Increasing brand awareness and brand performance against KPI’s.
• Managing the Marketing Budget and Spending.
• Overseeing the project management of all campaigns and launches.
• Managing and negotiating any supplier relationships.
• Creating and reviewing the lead generation strategy of the business.
• Overseeing the daily lead volume and quality and making decisions.
• Developing and Managing the Communications Strategy across all channels.
• Overseeing PR and Comms Management as well as Crisis Comms where needed.
• Conceptualising and planning events and activations.
• Coordinating marketing, branding and support teams.
• Developing sales strategies, tactics and goals.
• Manage internal sales processes, structures and systems.
• Contributing towards the project / development concept as well as pricing discussions and finalisation.
• Upskilling, mentoring and developing the talent of the sales and marketing team.
• Leading and nurturing a team to achieve overall business objectives.
• Developing systems and SOP’s for the company.
• Divisional overheads and budget management.
• Managing the division in terms of revenue and profit targets.
• Weekly and Monthly reporting review and exec summary for Leadership.

Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary Marketing Degree

Skills / Experience:

• 5 years experience in Marketing
• Must have previous Management experience (minimum 2 years)
• Must love a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• A highly-organised individual who has a strong ability to constantly zoom out and focus on bigger goals
• Must be good with people and work well in a team
• Sales experience beneficial
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 suite (Outlook, Teams, Office)
• Comfortable with Key Google Analytics functionality
• Experience with Salesforce beneficial

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Client Background:
Responsibilities:

• Representing our client on site and coordinating teams.
• Communicating / managing all feedback from site to the development team.
• Documenting progress made on site via photography.
• Neighbour management on new and existing projects.
• Managing our client's email snagging platform.
• Liaising with clients / owners in order to gain access into respective units.
• Liaising with contractors / client's to arrange for investigations of historic projects.
• On site unit and building reviews during construction.
• Managing the completion of communal snags.
• Communicating timelines of completion to the development team.
• Communicating to the managing agent regarding building snags.
• Directing building related queries from clients to the managing agent.
• Facilitating the confirmation of in-unit specifications.
• Notifying our client of any unit & design changes made by professionals.
• Managing the administration of customization deadlines.
• Internal progress reporting to the development team.
• General ad hoc duties as the company sees fit.
• Digitalizing and hardcopy filing where necessary.
• Preparation of any presentations where necessary.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction / Quantity Surveying.

Skills / Experience:

• Strong attention to detail & highly organized.
• Excellent understanding and communication of the English Language.
• Competent in Excel, Outlook and Word (MS Office Suite) and good at learning new software.
• Positive and professional attitude and appearance.