Jobs at Vista Group

Description

You will join our dynamic Vista Africa team based in Woodstock, Cape Town where you will get involved in programming, installation and configuration of software, business analysis, problem solving customer liaison, training and international travel.

The role is fast paced and exciting. You will be working within a small team and dealing with senior stakeholders at major cinema chains across Africa.

Installation and Training of Vista Software

• Installation and configuration of the Vista system on sites within Africa

• Training cinema, head office and IT staff

• Windows / network / hardware configuration

Customer Support

• Software problem solving

• Using SQL statements to assist

• Interpreting error logs

• Recording support calls into our issue tracking system

• Adjusting conversation for all levels of users

• Carrying a mobile phone to answer urgent after hours support calls on a roster basis

Other

• Testing software prior to live.

• Assist in documenting practices.

THE CANDIDATE

You will need

• A University degree in an IT / Computer / Engineering related field (with excellent grades)

• Relevant, demonstrable experience in the industry.

• Experience with databases and SQL queries

• Knowledge of software development concepts

• Some technical experience with advanced aspects of windows – DHCP, DNS, IIS, AD, network configuration

If you are a fast learner with excellent problem solving ability and a can-do attitude, you will excel in this position. You will need fantastic communication skills and the drive and motivation to deliver first-rate service to our customers. Your attention to detail and initiative as well as your ability to work on several tasks simultaneously, whilst meeting deadlines, will be your key to success in this role.

You will have the right to live and work in South Africa and will hold a current passport, or be able to obtain a passport when necessary for overseas travel.

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Description
You will be joining our Digital Team with the remit of testing Vista’s Digital products (large scale ecommerce enterprise level web and mobile builds) for Cinema Exhibitors across the globe. The role will give you the opportunity to define and implement QA processes specific to the Digital space and, working alongside our teams throughout the world, drive exceptional projects in an exciting and challenging industry.

• You will work with predominantly agile delivery methodologies using your creative, quality expertise that will ensure product owner`s visions meet expectations.
• You will also be expected to play a key role in designing and implementing an automated testing strategy integrated with our digital CI/CD pipeline.
• Your role will also include oversight of the QA process in our Integrations Development team, mentoring and developing existing resources and identifying opportunities to improve process and outcomes.

Responsibilities:

•  Work with Product Owners to define acceptance criteria and produce test plans
•  Review acceptance criteria with Product Owners, developers and interact with Project Managers
•  Provide updates on testing progress or other activities to key stakeholders
•  Analyse and investigate issues found in testing and work to resolve these with the relevant people
•  Work with our devops experts to develop an automated testing strategy across our digital offerings.
•  Drive and develop QA process within the Digital Team, and the wider EMEA team.
•  Provide mentoring and guidance to junior members of the QA team

Requirements

•  3-4 years relevant industry experience
•  Tertiary qualification preferred
•  Ability and passion to explore scenarios, think outside the box, and be meticulous.
•  Confident, positive personality and excellent interpersonal skills.
•  Experience with Agile software development, particularly with a focus in Quality Assurance.
•  Experience with virtualization and automated deployments, such as VMWare, VSphere, Docker, Vagrant.
•  Experience with test automation, particularly Specflow (Gherkin, Cucumber) or other automation frameworks.
•  Knowledge of a defect tracking system/test management systems.
•  Intermediate knowledge of SQL Server and T-SQL coding would be an advantage.
•  A desire to make the best software even better.

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Description

We are the world’s leading Cinema software supplier, and we are looking for a Development Manager/Engineering Manager to join our growing Digital team! Our headquarters are based in New Zealand with offices in London, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai, Mexico City, Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. You will get the opportunity to work on award-winning projects leading a team of back-end, front-end and full stack developers in building best-in-class cinema websites worldwide. Our portfolio includes clients of various sizes, ranging from some of the largest cinema chains to renown arthouse cinema brands worldwide.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be a trustworthy and proactive team leader with many years of engineering experience. You’ll be capable of problem solving, working on several projects at the same time, while growing and managing diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines across London, Romania and South Africa. You’ll be managing releases, deployments, a team of engineers and a QA. You’ll also be formulating and executing new team and technical processes and strategies while coordinating with members of Senior management. You’ll have experience with modern software development practices and be able to bring your own skills and perspectives to the table via whiteboarding sessions, peer programming and code reviews. You are someone who takes ownership, can time-manage and laughs at the sight of a challenge. Projects involve an understanding of the cinema industry, so while experience in industry is nice, don’t worry because you’ll be provided with excellent training and onboarding to get you up to speed as soon as possible.

Our over-arching goal as a development team is continuous improvement, and we are always focused on working as a tight-knit group who don't take ourselves too seriously and are always proving that we’re capable of Getting It Done. On top of that, we enjoy having a beer or three!

Qualifications and experience:

• SA citizen or holds the right to work in South Africa

• At least a degree qualification in Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or similar

• 5+ years’ experience in the software industry

• Experience working in a modern software development environment

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities and Personal Attributes:

• Proven Team Leader

• Ability to successfully manage multiple projects and teams at a time and meet deadlines

• Hiring and building teams

• ReactJS knowledge, strong C# / ASP.Net MVC and SQL knowledge and application of modern development principles and methodology. AngularJS/Angular knowledge is a plus

• Strong focus on software quality with Load Testing, Unit Testing, thorough code reviews, automated integration testing

• A keen eye for UI and UX design and a good understanding of the UX process

• Confidence in understanding and interpreting technical documents from various technology integrators

• A logical thinker with strong analytical problem-solving skills and an attention to detail

• A helpful and positive personality with excellent interpersonal skills

• Ability to develop and maintain good professional working relationships with people at all levels across the company

• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them.

Nice-to-have's

• Umbraco (or similar) CMS Experience

• eCommerce Experience

• Azure / AWS Experience

• Development experience using Visual Studio IDE

• Understanding of Jira and TFS

• Advanced HTML5, CSS3, vanilla JS, React, ES6, SASS, WebPack, BEM

• Cloud / Microservices / SaaS

• API Integration

• Containerisation with Docker & Kubernetes

• Dev-ops / deployment / virtualisation

• Agile excellence

Internal

Functional relationships with:

• UK Head of Digital

• UK Director of Digital Delivery

• UK Product Owner

• SA-based Developers

• RO-based Developers

• NZ Web/Digital Teams

• NZ UX team

• NZ Architects

• NZ & UK Software Testers

• NZ & UK Business Analysts

• NZ & UK Implementations Specialists

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Description

At Vista, we build kick-ass software used worldwide by film distributors, cinemas and moviegoers a-like. We’re the only global player, the leader in our market, and have been delighting our customers for over 20 years. $20 billion in ticket sales go through Vista systems every year, with 50% share of the world market, across 100 countries, supported by offices in London, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Auckland, Los Angeles, Shanghai and Beijing.

What will you do?

Cloud Engineering

• Develop and deploy tools and automation to replace manual tasks and improve efficiencies.

• Define and roll out cloud infrastructure and tooling solutions using off-the-shelf and inhouse components and services and communicate decisions with key stakeholders.

• Create, communicate and apply implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization.

• Oversee and assist in the migration of existing solutions to cloud native technologies.

Process Improvement

• Define and implement, with the engineering teams’ assistance, cloud standards across the Vista software suite.

• Identify manual processes that can be automated.

• Development of resilient automation patterns and practices.

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Evangelism of Cloud / SRE / DevOps principles to the broader Vista Group teams.

• Work with the team to encourage healthy collaboration and communication processes such as code reviews, test shares, design discussions etc.

• Willingness to support other team members in the application of modern technologies and techniques, with genuine empathy and desire to help them succeed.

• Work with the engineering teams to ensure the success of production system releases.

Personal Attributes

• 3+ years’ experience with Cloud Platforms, Azure and/or AWS.

• 3+ years’ CI/CD pipeline technologies i.e., GitHub, AzureDevOps, Octopus.

• Knowledge of IaC tools like Terraform.

• Experience with Container Technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).

• Good problem solving and analytical skills.

• Strong understanding of software application security.

• Script/Programming knowledge in any of PowerShell, Shell, Python, OOP.

• Experience in “on-premise” to cloud technical migrations.

• Strong time management skills.

• Ability to explain complex cloud things in a simple way.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

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Description

We are the world’s leading Cinema software supplier and we are looking for a full stack developer to join our growing team. We have a clearly stated business goal of Global Domination, and - with an ever-increasing amount of work available - we are looking for talented people like yourself to help us make that happen.

You will work with a team of back-end, front-end and full stack developers in an Agile environment building best-in-class cinema websites worldwide. Our projects range in size and design, providing a plethora of challenging work to your portfolio. Projects involve understanding deep knowledge of the cinema industry, so you’ll be provided with excellent training and onboarding to get you up to speed and ready to contribute to our technically advanced cloud ready enterprise suite as soon as possible.

As a Full Stack developer, you’ll be working with Umbraco using ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and ReactJs. You’ll be collaborating with senior and junior developers to produce a code base that is high quality, maintainable, and always maturing. You’ll have experience with modern software development practices and be able to bring your own skills and perspectives to the table via whiteboarding sessions, peer programming, code reviews, and of course your own development time.

Our over-arching goal as a development team is continuous improvement, and we will always be focused on working as a tight-knit group who get on well with each other, have each other’s back, and are always proving that we’re capable of Getting It Done.

Key Skills

• Strong Experience (Minimum 3 years) with Umbraco v7 (v8.x is a bonus)

• 2-4 year’s web front end development experience ideally in a commercial and/or ecommerce organisation.

• Strong intermediate level C# / ASP.Net / ReactJs

• Fundamental understanding of SOLID, design principles, Web Development

• Good understanding of web markup, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

• Good understanding of ReactJs, exposure to Angular a plus

• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX

• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.

• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.

• Proficient understanding of Git

• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS

• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.

• Excellent communication and organisational skills

• Team player

• Ability to work to tight deadlines

Nice-to-have's

• eCommerce Experience

• Development experience using Visual Studio IDE

• Understanding of Jira and TFS

• Advanced HTML5, CSS3, vanilla JS, React, ES6, SASS, WebPack, BEM

• Cloud / Microservices / SaaS

• API Integration

• Dev-ops / deployment / virtualisation

• Agile excellence