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The Sun International brand has a proud legacy in the gaming, hospitality and entertainment sector. Its superior hotels and resorts portfolio makes it a recognized premium brand. The Sun International Group has a diverse portfolio of assets including world class five star hotels, modern and well located casinos, and some of the world’s premier resorts....
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Job Purpose
The IT Cloud Specialist will be responsible for providing specialist, high-level technical advice and support on Cloud computing systems for all aspects of the day-to-day infrastructure including the design, testing, deployment and monitoring of the system; system performance and reporting, resolution of system problems, provision of system diagnostic information and system security in line with agreed service levels and in a manner that is professional, reliable, and in line with business and regulatory requirements.
This role will be required to ensure all practices are in line with policy, frameworks and tools based on researched leading and industry practice, technical solutions, specialised projects and innovation, and legislative support to advise, enable and support business operations in achieving their objectives
Educational Requirements
- BTech or Equivalent
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) an advantage
- Certification in CompTIA Cloud
Experience
- Minimum of 8 years relevant IT industry experience in Cloud administration
- Demonstratable experience with Cloud servers in virtualized environments
- Demonstratable experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Bind, Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc.
- Demonstratable experience of Server hardware
- Demonstrable experience in the fundamentals of Cloud scripting languages
Skills and Knowledge
- Cloud servers in virtualized environments
- Fundamentals of Cloud scripting languages
- Installing, configuring, and maintaining services viz Bind, Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc.
- Configuration management tools, such as Puppet and Chef
- Load balancing, firewalls, etc.
- Proficiency with network tools such as iptables, Cloud IPVS, HAProxy, etc.
- Ability to build and monitor services on production servers
- Knowledge of servers and switches and client infrastructure setup
- Project Management
- Analysing
- Creating and improving
- Sourcing information
- Applying expertise and technology
- Taking ownership
- Responding with urgency
- Collaborating
Key Performance Areas
- Act as the owner and technical expert for creating and maintaining the Cloud computing system and the resolution of technical issues for the Sun International group and provide cloud hosting services support
- Design and implement logging, application monitoring, and capacity performance planning of cloud solutions, enhancing the current cloud hosting service request and incident management solution
- Design system installations and develop and administer configuration management solutions for the cloud computing system
- Evaluate and monitor system performance and ensure compliance with security standards, including centralized logging, threat analysis and remediation
- Produce and deliver support and advice, documentation and training around security patching and ‘hardening’ of Cloud installations, undertaking security analysis and hardening to any systems administration
- Diagnose Cloud operating system faults, troubleshoot and provide working solutions
- Manage enterprise cloud platform and perform migration from System Center to VMware cloud environments
- Conduct the migration and operationalisation of workloads to new cloud solutions
- Collaborate with architects, engineering, client managers, project managers, applications and infrastructure teams to plan and coordinate changes
- Work with other IT and application teams to implement automation of their processes and improved monitoring of their systems
- Implementation and/or working in Cloud Brokarage environments
- Analyzes and resolves problems associated with the operating system's servers, hardware, applications, and software
- Design and develop infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools
- Develop test automation frameworks in collaboration with rest of the team
- Define, document and enforce system standards
- Provide systems administration and software support for Cloud based systems
- Develop support processes and provide advice and support on back up, data storage, data recovery and meeting regulations on data management using Cloud
- Investigate new Cloud technologies and applications, sharing technical knowledge and expertise with colleagues and providing technical coaching and mentoring to colleagues in the use of Cloud operating systems
- Report on the Cloud operational status by gathering and prioritising information and managing projects
- Manage SLA process, performance and billing with vendors around Cloud requirements and support
Equity
- Preference will be given to employees from the designated groups in line with the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, No. 55 of 1998, SISA internal recruitment policy as well as units employment equity plans.
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Job Purpose
The IT Server & Storage Lead will be responsible for the supervision of IT server and storage processes -
- Administering, installing and providing thought leadership on data server and storage infrastructure (including the management and monitoring of the data centre);
- Providing advice and support for the installing, testing and maintaining of server and storage components;
- Ensuring that the Data Centre is kept within a pre-defined standard, administering and maintaining the unit’s active directory (AD) services relating to servers and storage;
- Maintaining an adequate spare parts inventory of systems, subsystems and component parts used in repair work; and
- Implementating the necessary data protection procedures, including backups, restores and archiving in a manner that is professional and reliable, and in line with agreed SLA, business and regulatory requirements.
Educational Requirements
- BTech or Equivalent
- MCSE Server Infrastructure
- CompTIA Server+ Certification
- Accredited Dell Data Center Technologies training
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years relevant IT industry experience
- Experience with design of large-scale production virtualization systems
- Experience with the deployment of large-scale production virtualisation systems
- Experience in storage area networks (SAN)
- Experience with Project Management Methodologies
Skills and Knowledge
- Windows Server 2008/2012/2016
- Server and Storage Hardware
- Virtualisation Hyper V and VM ware
- Backup and recovery management in a virtualised environment
- Active Directory management
- Technical Writing
- Risk management
- Capacity Planning
- IP networking protocols and methods
- Adaptive infrastructures
- Protected data storage solutions to ensure confidentiality
- Project Management
- Analytical thinking
- Results orientation
- Innovation
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Emotional intelligence and the ability to handle pressure and multiple projects simultaneously
- Supervisory skills
- Highly organized individual; comfortable working with multiple simultaneous priorities / projects
Key Performance Areas
- Supervise the server and storage team in delivering and maintaining a secure and reliable IT server and storage infrastructure, including data centre management
- Identify and examine IT server and storage technology business needs and determine timely and effective solutions to customer requirements.
- Conduct feasibility studies, business cases, risk assessments, writes proposals, and creates functional requirements for new and major changes to existing equipment
- Monitor capacity to ensure a consistent view on the availability, performance and general maintenance of the servers and storage environment
- Compile and motivate the business case and provide rationalisation for new server and storage virtualisation plans and data management technology on a regular basis or as required
- Compile action plans and measurements and supervise the implementation of approved projects across operations including the installation and upgrading of server components
- Manage the functioning and enhancements of server and storage and data management equipment and systems to ensure uptime and enhance the guest experience within the business
- Provides feedback and reports back to management on the innovations; risks, project plans and challenges
- Identify, document and analyse risks associated with the business requirements as part of the organisation’s process for the development of requirements.
- Provide business with understanding of the nature of the solution and the impact it will have on the business processes and organisation
- Address security and availability requirements in response to identified risks and in line with the organisation’s data classification, information architecture, information security architecture and risk tolerance.
- Lead and provide guidance to technical specialist in the technical design and installation, maintenance, upgrade, configuration and support of the IT server and storage infrastructure environment for the Sun International Group.
- Relationship agreements with key suppliers, business partners and sponsors are built, negotiated and managed to achieve the business objectives and leverage new opportunities and joint initiatives
- Monitor and control expenses for the function against a pre-defined budget
- Conduct regular aging analysis of equipment to allow for budget planning or warranty considerations
- Monitor Microsoft licenses as they relate to server operating systems and SQL deployments aligned to the Sun International Licensing agreement/s
Equity
- Preference will be given to employees from the designated groups in line with the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, No. 55 of 1998, SISA internal recruitment policy as well as units employment equity plans.
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Job Purpose
The Business Support Division is responsible for leading innovation, and business technology services via a shared services model to business operations to enable the optimal use of digitisation, systems and processes in providing insights into new revenue and value-producing opportunities.
The C# Developer role, as part of the Business Support team, will contribute to the development & support of a web-based WMS system to meet business requirements from back-end to client-end services, with the emphasis on designing, developing and supporting applications; (.NET 3.5, C#, ASP.net, SQL server). This will be done through collaborating with the Gaming and Hospitality segments, specialised functional areas and Business technology leadership and teams with the aim of improving growth and efficiencies through the design of digital tools and analysis.
Education
- Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years software development experience in a professional Microsoft Windows environment using C#, Visual Studio .net and MS SQL Server
- Working knowledge of Content Management Systems. Preferably: DotNetNuke, Umbraco or Net Framework and .Net Core
- Experience in Casino Gaming environment is an advantage
- Experience with ORM frameworks including digital marketing and SEO technical
Skills and Knowledge
- C# development
- .Net Framework
- .Net Core
- Angular 5 +
- JavaScript
- SQL
- WCF
- CSS
- Microsoft SQL
- Business acumen
- Testing methodologies and practices
- Expertise in Azure, DevOps
- Analysing
- Creating and improving
- Sourcing information
- Applying expertise and technology
- Taking ownership
- Responding with urgency
- Collaborating
Key Performance Areas:
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable C# code
- Conduct software development, including all the phases of the development life cycle (design, coding, testing, release)
- Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
- Test the applications; identify bottlenecks and bugs; and document
- Conduct GAP analyses, and devise solutions to these problems using technical design
- Carry out maintenance and support of assigned systems to ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Analyze and review support requests to identify problem trends
- Perform root cause analysis on problem tickets and recommend corrective solutions
- Compliance with good practice software engineering standards including version and source control, and participating in regular code reviews
- Understand and implement SEO technical best practice
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Job Purpose
The Business Support Division is responsible for leading innovation, and business technology services via a shared services model to business operations to enable the optimal use of digitisation, systems and processes in providing insights into new revenue and value-producing opportunities.
The C# Developer role, as part of the Business Support team, will contribute to the development & support of a web-based WMS system to meet business requirements from back-end to client-end services, with the emphasis on designing, developing and supporting applications; (.NET 3.5, C#, ASP.net, SQL server). This will be done through collaborating with the Gaming and Hospitality segments, specialised functional areas and Business technology leadership and teams with the aim of improving growth and efficiencies through the design of digital tools and analysis.
Education
- Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years software development experience in a professional Microsoft Windows environment using C#, Visual Studio .net and MS SQL Server
- Working knowledge of Content Management Systems. Preferably: DotNetNuke, Umbraco or Net Framework and .Net Core
- Experience in Casino Gaming environment is an advantage
- Experience with ORM frameworks including digital marketing and SEO technical
Skills and Knowledge
- C# development
- .Net Framework
- .Net Core
- Angular 5 +
- JavaScript
- SQL
- WCF
- CSS
- Microsoft SQL
- Business acumen
- Testing methodologies and practices
- Expertise in Azure, DevOps
- Analysing
- Creating and improving
- Sourcing information
- Applying expertise and technology
- Taking ownership
- Responding with urgency
- Collaborating
Key Performance Areas:
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable C# code
- Conduct software development, including all the phases of the development life cycle (design, coding, testing, release)
- Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
- Test the applications; identify bottlenecks and bugs; and document
- Conduct GAP analyses, and devise solutions to these problems using technical design
- Carry out maintenance and support of assigned systems to ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Analyze and review support requests to identify problem trends
- Perform root cause analysis on problem tickets and recommend corrective solutions
- Compliance with good practice software engineering standards including version and source control, and participating in regular code reviews
- Understand and implement SEO technical best practice
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