Jobs at Tower Group Recruitment

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced .NET developer with more than three years’ experience, to work on products hosted on the Azure platform. The candidate would be directly involved in creating high-performance, scalable .NET API’s for the various platforms on Azure, as well as mentoring junior developers in the team.

Competencies and experienced with the following:

• Git
• ASP .NET and ASP.NET Core
• Azure Functions
• Azure Web Apps
• Azure Storage
• Azure SQL
• Azure DevOps (VSTS)
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• FFmpeg
• API profiling, benchmarking and performance optimization
• Working in a DevOps environment

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Position Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Front-end developer  with more than three years’ experience to be based in Durban. As a successful candidate you would be directly involved in creating high-performance, scalable web products on various platforms and frameworks, as well as mentoring junior developers in the team.

Competencies include:

• Git
• Angular and AngularJS
• Knowledge of web infrastructure and architecture
• 3rd-party APIs
• Communicating with web services using JSON/XML
• UX/UI Design
• Site profiling, benchmarking and performance optimization
• Working in a DevOps environment

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Key Responsibilities

• Understanding customers’ overall data centre, IT and business processes, to design implementation and roll-out cloud focused solutions.
• Application of technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, creating a data platform and ensuring long term technical viability of Microsoft 365 deployments
• Ensuring solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Develop deep relationships with the customer’s IT team and provide guidance to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Share insights and best practices, as well as connecting with the engineering team to identify and resolve network security matters
• Assess the customers’ knowledge of the Microsoft 365 platform and overall cloud readiness, to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensuring its delivery through partners.
• Collaborate with other engineers in developing complex end-to-end enterprise solutions on Microsoft 365.
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, collaborate and share with the technical community while educating customers on the Microsoft 365 platform.
• Be a Microsoft 365 evangelist with customers, partners and external communities

Requirements include:

• More than 10 years of experience in a technical role with the last 3-4 years focused on Microsoft cloud solutions, having deployed projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support.
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects.
• Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.
• Experience with deploying and training users on Microsoft Teams, InTune and Sharepoint
• Technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, virtualisation, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management.
• Microsoft certifications, including MCSA-O365 and MS900/MD101/MS101/MS500
• Microsoft Azure certifications in AZ103/AZ300/AZ500

Advantageous skills

• Technical experience and knowledge, in two or more data platform cloud solutions – such as AWS or Google Cloud
• Advanced analytics including Azure Data Bricks and visualization tools such as PowerBI
• The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend
• Linux operating systems
• Advanced networking skills with Firewalls (Mikrotik, Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet)

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Requirements include:

• Excellent technical knowledge of Objective-C or Swift on Xcode.
• Three years’ experience working as a mid-level or senior developer, having filled the primary role on a shipped iOS app developed natively.

Advantageous

• Recently published and/or maintained live app(s) in the App Store.
• You have some experience in a leadership/team lead role.
• You have experience in UI design.

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The successful candidate would:

• Be directly involved in creating native apps for our clients and partners in the fields of media, communications and education.
• Take ownership of re-architecting the existing Android codebase into a modular architecture.
• Manage the transition from Java to Kotlin.

Requirements include:

• More than three years’ experience working as a senior Android App developer, having filled the primary role on a shipped Android app developed natively.
• 1 years’ experience using Kotlin.
• Well-versed in Unit & Automated testing techniques for Android apps.
• Strong competency in Git.
•  Recently published and/or maintained live app(s) in the App Store.
•  Experience in UI design.
• Awareness of Agile/Scrum methodologies or have worked in an Agile / Scrum team.

An added advantage:

• Completed the Android Nano Degree.
• Experience with wireframing tools and prototyping proof of concepts.
• Some exposure in AppCenter and Microsoft’s Azure DevOps.
• Exposure to Bash Scripts.

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Purpose of the role

• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day management of the global infrastructure and the deployment of network, security, cloud and voice services over that infrastructure. Manage the engineering team, supervising their work to ensure that it is of highest standard and that they meet the agreed KPIs and objectives that have been set for them.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for provision of new network, security, voice and other technical services.   –
• Ensure that new service solutions are subjected to technical review within agreed timeframes, and where appropriate, are authorised.
• Manage team resources to ensure approved new services are provisioned in a timely, secure and consistent manner
• Engage with the broader technical services / solutions team on the development of new products, as required
•  Ensuring that appropriate tools, documentation and resources are in place to resolve any problems and outages
• Delivery of support and escalation services complies to agreed, documented processes
• Provide ongoing proactive recommendations to improve support processes and delivery
• Manage and provide reporting on all key metrics related to support deliverables.
• Provide management escalation point for resolution of operational issues
• Management of engineering and support teams including selecting, training, assigning and evaluating work, reviewing performance and corrective action
• Overseeing effective monitoring and response to hardware, software, and service faults.
• Ensure alignment of risk management processes, procedures and tools to group policy and regulatory requirements
•  Responsible for the day-to-day management of the underlying technical infrastructure ensuring consistent, secure and resilient delivery of services
• Planning, organisation, and direction for the engineering and support teams to ensure the stable operation of technical infrastructure.
• Manage and provide reporting on all key metrics related to engineering deliverables.
• Coordinate with 3rd party and internal stakeholders to ensure the success of critical network deployments  
• Ensure that changes to the infrastructure are completed in compliance with relevant procedures to assure the security and reliability of the network
• Participate in network planning meetings relating to capacity, design and development of network - Ensure that there all infrastructure deployed integrates into the company’s standard monitoring, management and backup services aligned to industry standards  
• Monitor infrastructure resource utilisation, trending, and capacity planning

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience in a service provider environment
• Relevant industry degree and/or certifications preferred i.e. CCIE
• Good technical understanding of security, cloud and network infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools
• Drive effective change with fast moving and leading global solutions