Jobs at Bluegrass Digital

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• We're looking for a capable DevOps Support Engineer, with Microsoft Azure (preferred) or AWS Cloud experience, to join our dynamic and growing team. This role suits a multi-skilled person with .NET skillset, interested in DevOps tooling and processes and knowledge of networks/server maintenance, website hosting, support and back-up procedures. A key part of the role is to assist the Technical Director with the administration of our client websites, applications and Azure app service environments. You will both maintain and continuously look for ways to improve the DevOps processes and find efficiencies through latest technologies (Docker; Kubernetes etc) and automate wherever possible. Ideally you will have experience and a solid understanding of managing internal business networks and firewalls; and server environments with emphasis on maintaining infrastructure, not limited to but including, Windows & IIS (Cloud / VM’s), .Net Framework, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and MailFlow.

SKILLS YOU SHOULD HAVE

• IT related Degree or Diploma. MCSA, MCSE or similar qualifications (very beneficial)
• A minimum of 2-3+ years' experience as a System Engineer / Network Support Engineer / DevOps Engineer / or .NET Developer
• Experience working with Cloud Environments – Microsoft Azure (preferred)
• Experience with Cloud backup strategies, automation, disaster recovery strategies, cloud security
• Experience maintaining Cloud storage networks, backup and data retention policies
• Good understanding of CI/CD processes – Microsoft DevOps (preferred)
• Good understanding of source control best practice and branching strategies, using tools like GIT, Bitbucket, Sourcetree
• DevOps tools and process – Docker; Kubernetes; GIT; New Relic; JIRA (very advantageous)
• Firewall Management; Virtual Network Gateways; VPN
• Scripting experience i.e. BASH or Python or PowerShell
• Ability to write SQL database scripts (advantageous, not mandatory)
• Ability to create and maintaining SQL databases
• A solid understanding of web development technologies and processes and how they all work together. For example, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, .NET or PHP, Databases
• Experience with Telephony and VOIP systems
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, with the ability to resolving technical issues, database anomalies, website performance issues related to underlying database issues or Cloud app service infrastructure.
• Solid communication and project management skills
• Experience providing and supporting client service level agreements (SLA’s) and responding to our clients during outages, downtime etc. within SLA timeframes

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintaining the internal Bluegrass core IT infrastructure
• Manage and maintain the internal Bluegrass company network; firewalls; VPN; Microsoft Entra products and services
• Setup and management of all Bluegrass employee hardware and devices and ensuring the company asset register is maintained for insurance purposes
• 1st line support for managing and troubleshooting any user hardware related issues
• Manage existing and setup of new employees, within the Bluegrass Azure directory and environments
• Manage the existing telephony and Microsoft Teams phone systems with 3rd party vendors
• Manage 3rd party suppliers and vendor contracts and relationships
• Manage Azure app service subscriptions, including monitoring application insights and logs for potential issues
• Support the development team with project deployments; troubleshooting application issues from a Cloud perspective; database support etc
• Maintain DevOps pipelines and troubleshoot deployment related issues
• Assist with the maintenance of monthly Platform Operations automation and test scripts
• Create standards & process documentation and maintain existing documentation.

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WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

• We are looking for an experienced UX / UI DESIGNER to join our team and drive the creative direction within the business and projects. You should understand 'big picture' strategic thinking and be able to help conceptualise, problem solve and manage stakeholder conversations during the initial sales process; client design workshops; and throughout the creative process, ensuring that all our designs talk back to the client’s business requirements and project objectives.
• At Bluegrass we love and use Figma as our design tool, and we need you to have deep experience with Figma. Creating beautiful, modern and highly creative UI designs is the primary skill we need from you, as we do have strong UX experience within the team to assist with the UX process.
• You will be supported by and will work closely with our Head of Product and Solutions Director.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Minimum of 2+ years’ experience working within a similar creative software development environment or a product development team
• Design related qualifications
• Proven experience with design workshops, where you interact with clients and unpack project requirements and business problems
• Experience interacting with clients and able to unpack project requirements and business problems
• Experience architecting and structuring Figma projects - is essential
• Experience creating beautiful, modern and highly creative UI designs, for both Websites and Mobile App projects, within Figma
• Experience using Google’s Material Design system - is advantageous
• Experience implementing a Design System - is very advantageous
• Experience creating and designing corporate branding, logos and CI guidelines - is advantageous
• Ability to write code (HTML / CSS) - is advantageous
• Experience using JIRA as a project management tool - is advantageous
• Experience with WebFlow - is advantageous
• Ability to design and code HTML mailers - is advantageous
• Ability to create professional branding videos and showreels - is very advantageous
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to lead clients through the creative process

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Interact with clients and scope project requirements and business problems and propose solutions
• Assist the sales process with creative pitches to help win new business
• Master and use Figma as your primary design tool and then also the Adobe CC Suite
• Create UX wireframe/prototypes using Figma
• Present both your UX prototypes and UI Designs to clients in a clear and professional manner, explaining how we’ve solved and achieved the project objectives
• Passionately stay abreast of new design trends, concepts and designing for digital, web and mobile experiences and explore these trends actively on a regular basis.
• Master designing for Mobile App development (iOS & Android) and understand the design implications to cater for various types of screen sizes and orientations
• Understand the importance of Design Systems and make recommendations as to how Bluegrass can become more efficient within our internal design processes, by proactively using provided learning platforms (i.e. www.uxcel.com) to improve your skills
• Master Google’s Material Design system and employ its guidelines, components, and tools that support the best practices of user interface design
• Create and design corporate branding, logos and CI style guides
• Assist clients and project managers to select themes to use for projects (i.e. WebFlow and Wordpress) where you can easily skin design files (where required)
• Master Bluegrass project management tools like JIRA and our creative processes
• Provide design estimates that can be used to create accurate project cost estimates and project timelines.
• Accurately track your time logs daily using Bluegrass tools and standards
• Advantageous is an understanding of HTML & CSS to propose solutions from a functional design perspective
• Assist the marketing team to create website content; social media and case study assets to showcase our work
• Assist with Award entry submissions
• Conceptualise and input into our Bluegrass branding videos and showreels

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• Bluegrass Digital is a leading digital production agency, working with both South African and International client accounts. We are looking for an experienced React Native / JavaScript developer to join us. You will be energetic; passionate about using the latest technologies; and eager to grow your skills by working on Mobile Apps and Responsive Web projects, PWA’s, API integrations and more. You will work on some big brand names, some small brand names, and start-ups building some cool projects and having fun along the way. You will be mentored by our Head of Development, who give you exposure to the latest technologies and architectural best practices being used on the web today.
• This exciting opportunity is for those that love the world of JavaScript and working on the latest frameworks like React, React Native, VueJS and more! If you are passionate on building web and mobile applications and looking to expand your skills, please get in touch.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 3-5+ years' experience in mobile development
• HTML and CSS (including SASS and/or LESS) essential
• Good experience with JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience with more than one JS framework/library preferred (React, Vue, Angular etc.)
• Experience with the following technologies used for our React Native app development: React, Redux, Redux-saga, React-router for web, react-navigation for native, Jest/mocha etc. for unit tests, Redux form, eslint
• Node, Express beneficial
• JavaScript related tooling (Webpack, Gulp, NPM, Babel, Yarn etc.) is essential
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and platforms (Bitbucket, GitHub) essential
• Experience delivering projects from designs and functional specs through to production
• Slicing up designs and extracting assets from Invision Inspect and/or PSDs/Sketch
• High level of attention to detail, both in matching a design and ensuring a smooth user experience
• Experience working with RESTful APIs

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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• We are looking for a dynamic and resourceful Manual QA Tester to join our team, with a keen eye for detail; good communication skills; a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on our business success. Experience in Mobile (native) Apps and Web Application testing is essential.
• You will work closely with all the Bluegrass teams including the Project Management; Development; Design and Business Analyst teams. The Operations Director will oversee your work to ensure the quality and fulfilment of Bluegrass Digital’s products and services. You will understand client project requirements; make raise UX issues during the QA process; understand the CMS platforms we work with; and along with our Business Analysts improve the QA team operational effectiveness and processes

REQUIREMENTS & ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• 3+ years’ experience within an IT or Agency environment
• Familiar with Agile methodologies (Kanban / Scrum)
• Experience working with JIRA project management platform
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Proficient with native mobile app testing (iOS and Android)
• Proficient with responsive web cross browser testing
• Experience working with Content Management Systems (Umbraco and WordPress)
• Experience conducting API testing using tools like Charles or Postman is advantageous
• Experience conducting performance tests using available tools like Dev Tools; Google Lighthouse; GTmetrix etc
• A good understanding of SEO and how to test SEO technical aspects from a QA perspective
• Ability to create and manage clear and concise test scripts
• Razor sharp eye for detail – you should have a creative eye and the ability to review designs against the final product and pick out those minuscule 1 pixel off bugs and inherently understand when something ‘feels wrong’ within the user experience
• Military-like organizational and time management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks comfortably
• Excellent command of the English language, both verbal and written so you can effectively report bugs in a clear manner
• Solid skills in Microsoft Excel and Word – are required

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Cross Platform Testing – of large Website Applications; and Mobile Apps (iOS, Android)
• Functional Testing – manually test applications against defined user stories and business logic. Develop strong 'hands-on' debugging abilities with a talent for putting yourself in the user’s shoes to troubleshoot both functional and usability issues
• Scenario Testing – you should be an out-the-box thinker and able to conceive and replicate test scenarios, whilst trying to break the application for different scenarios
• Performance Testing – you will test application performance levels using available free tools i.e. Dev Tools; Google Lighthouse
• Automation Testing – create test cases and write scripts in Katalon (mentorship provided) to maintain monthly client Platform Operation automation scripts
• Complete monthly client Platform Operations (including regression testing), as per agreed SLA client retainers
• Create high quality Acceptance Criteria and detailed bug reports for project tickets, that will allow developers to replicate a bug and resolve it quickly
• Perform regression testing across projects and ensure there are clear test plans to regular monthly Platform Operation regression testing
• Stay abreast of UX best practices by reading popular blogs and follow UX industry thought leaders, so that you can think about UX testing and functional design testing
• Keep up to date with browser, mobile device and operating system compatibilities, limitations & quirks to aid with the QA process
• Master the various Content Management platforms Bluegrass uses (Umbraco, EPiServer, WordPress), so that Project Managers can ask you for guidance to help answer client queries
• Research and understand security standards, especially the OWASP Top Ten standards
• Participate in project planning sessions with team members to contribute towards cost estimates and timeline project planning.
• Learn and understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and how to test for it from a QA perspective
• Learn and understand Google Analytics and how it should be implemented, so that you can test for it from a QA perspective

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WHO WE LOOKING FOR

• We're looking for a capable .Net Umbraco Developer. You must have hands on experience with Umbraco. You should be excited by the prospect of architecting challenging new projects, whilst fine tuning and maintaining existing projects. You must have strong problem-solving logic and architectural knowledge to craft web and mobile platforms. You must be willing to learn new skills and participate in team innovation and knowledge sharing. Be prepared to take on any challenge head-on and have a problem-solving attitude.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Minimum of 3-5+ years' experience in web / mobile development
• Experience in developing/maintaining application with Umbraco CMS as the core backend component in the architecture - required
• Experience using .NET / ASP.NET MVC / C# / JavaScript / Web API / Web Services / Razor / JSON
• Good Frontend skills and working with HTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS
• Good knowledge of JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, Typescript)
• Good database and server-side application skills with Azure, SQL / NoSQL (Cosmos)
• Cloud Hosting platform experience - Azure App Services and Application development and Azure DevOps experience is very advantageous
• Excellent understanding of stored procedures and database design/normalization
• Excellent understanding of source control best practice and branching strategies
• Gather customer software requirements and develop related software applications and programs (to spec)
• Good application performance optimization strategies and techniques
• Good knowledge of object orientated concepts
• Experience in system integration techniques
• Experience interfacing with clients, understanding client business strategies and how to deliver these within applications you architect
• Communicating at a management level. Speaking with authority and lucidity to clients and team members
• Experience working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies
• Experience using project management tools like Jira
• Happy to mentor and grow self-motivated less experienced team members
• Team player and not afraid of a bit of hard-work and fun with colleagues

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, test and support web and mobile applications
• Provide accurate cost estimates
• Research and evaluate software related technologies and products
• Implement and ensure development best practices, and programming standards are adhered to across your projects
• Continuously improve development processes and libraries for maintainability, scalability and efficiency
• Code audits and pull request reviews
• Assist and support other team members on their projects (if required)
• Interact with clients to determine their requirements and needs