Jobs at Vodacom

The Engineering and Technical Building Solutions Manager is a hands-on management role that will over and above the Technical Facilities day to day Operations be responsible for integrating the physical building infrastructure with technology in enhancing performance and efficiencies. As well as increasing building automation - by using technology and systems in creating more connected devices to gain greater access to insights, analytics as well as greater control of facilities and operations, to increase efficiency and decrease costs. This includes collecting and monitoring data on HVAC and lighting systems.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Take ownership on ongoing management and maintenance of utilities related to water, power, energy, rates and taxes specifically in sustainability reporting, implementing smart building solutions in enhancing facilities through IOT platforms.
• Prepare tender documentation for technical projects;
• Project management, supervising and coordinating of contractors;
• Investigating technical suitability of new building premises;
• Environmental Champion driving GREEN & ENERGY building initiatives
• Benchmarking industry cost of services to achieve maximum value for money;
• Planning and organizing future developments in line with strategic business objectives;
• Managing and leading change to ensure minimum disruption to core activities;
• Liaising with tenants of commercial properties;
• Directing and planning essential central services related to building maintenance
• Ensure building compliancy to municipal regulations and Health & Safety
• Contractor management and SLA benchmarking and following up on any deficiencies
• Responding appropriately to emergencies and urgent projects as they arise.
• Business case compilation and business case modelling
• Research, benchmarking and analysis with the aim of developing and delivering leading and competitive facilities
• management propositions, strategies and execution tactics.
• Overall budget management of in terms of Capex and Opex expenditure.
• Contractual and commercial application within the built environment.
• Sound knowledge of Facilities / Building Management
• Relevant Facilities Health, Safety and Quality Legislation

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
• A relevant 3/4 year qualification in Machenical/Electrical Engineering – essential
• Minimum of 5 - 8 years’ experience in Facilities/Property/Real Estate/Building/Electrical Engineering management with 3 - 5 years spent in a management level – essential
• Sound knowledge of Facilities / Building Management / Smart Building Solutions
• Relevant Facilities Health, Safety and Quality Legislation
• ISO standards Statutory Regulation
• Contract Management
• Finance and Budgetary
• Building Management Processes and Control system.
• Applying expertise and technology
• Project and Programme Management
• Engineering, electrical, mechanical and fire skills
• Managing consultants, contractors and sub-contractors

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The DevOps Engineer is responsible for delivering, maintaining, and optimizing infrastructure, database, and middleware capabilities to support and enable the development and operations of appications and solutions. This role is also responsible for reviewing solution designs, understanding their impact on application/infrastructure; building and implementing infrastructure and applications, and monitoring, maintaining, and supporting the operational environments.

In addition, the candidate in this role is responsible for providing technical expertise to team members and other technical/business areas.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Ensuring availability, performance, sustainability and accessibility of application systems/services
• Managing and ensuring SLAs and KPIs of services are maintained
• Ensuring necessary operational controls and governance are in place and policies to ensure alignment
• Managing and overseeing the service transition process of services into the production environment.
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are implemented with all features and user stories
• Monitor and maintain infrastructure performance, capacity and availability, providing 2nd and 3rd level support for the resolution of application and infrastructure-related incidents and problems
• Managing and remediating on security threats and vulnerabilities, and applying all required security controls in accordance with policy
• Ensuring effective monitoring of services and applications
• Identification and mitigation of risks for services in production
• Executing and managing operational projects to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines and scope
• Coordinating and executing of releases into production environments
• Acting as technical authority, providing input and guidance into technical solutions and implementations
• Troubleshooting and resolving incidents and defects within service SLAs

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Min 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Min 5 years’ relevant experience in developing, deploying and / or administering infrastructure solutions

Experience

• of current and emerging virtualization, infrastructure, cloud and containerization technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Min 3 years’ experience in scripting(automation) and configuration management using tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt etc.
• Min 3 years’ experience building, managing and supporting AWS-based solutions and AWS native technologies
• Min 3 years’ experience working with programming and scripting languages, such as Ruby and Python or PHP
• Knowledge and experience of Web services, SOAP and RESTful interfaces, and XML

Experience

• working closely with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, and with teams leveraging DevOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of IT management best practice frameworks, such as ITIL and COBIT
• Strong knowledge of automation frameworks and tools

Strong Knowledge And Experience On AWS (Certification Preferred)

• Financial Services and Telecommunications domain knowledge preferred
• Min 5 years’ experience in database technologies - RDBMS, e.g. MSSQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc
• Min 5 years’ experience and knowledge of IP networks and related solutions
• Excellent problem solving ability in complex environments

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience

• Agile methodologies and techniques used in development of software
• Strong knowledge of Incident and problem management processes

Experience

• in effective troubleshooting techniques

Experience

• in managing and deploying .NET and java applications
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies, techniques and tools
• DevOps culture – applying relevant processes, practices and tools
• Cloud-native architectures, including public cloud PaaS / IaaS, micro-services architectures, APIs
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to adapt to new methods and processes
• Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives internal-and cross-team constructive feedback and support
• Understanding of both the Telecommunications and Fintech services markets and technology trends

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The Network Engineer, Data Centre will be responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, deployment and support of cloud networking solutions. In this role you will combine your skills of routing & switching in the data centre with emerging cloud networking technologies and use automation and scripting to deliver services to our growing cloud centric customer base.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Plan, implement and document solutions in a complex network environment in support of new and existing cloud technology architectures.
• Automate and monitor various data centre services.
• Work with Development and Operations teams to automate solutions and integrate with other services/products/solutions.
• To develop state of the art solutions which are technically sound.
• Define, implement and document operational processes and procedures, with periodic review for efficiency and improvement
• Support complex projects from inception to completion.
• Work collaboratively with customers and technology teams to ensure high quality of solution delivery.
• Encourage best practice and knowledge sharing with partners and cross-functional groups
• Provide recommendations as they pertain to improvements in support/development initiatives and facilitate implementation with partners and cross-functional groups within the Business.
• Participate in high level technical solution definition and design during the implementation phase with the goal of providing reliable, stable and operationally sound applications that meet the Business requirements.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Provide level 2 and level 3 support to internal staff and top customer.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation supporting systems to meet SLAs.

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years networking experience of which 3 years in a complex data centre environment and at least 1 year with a Service Provider.
• Minimum Cisco CCNP certification.
• Advanced experience with internet routing protocols and concepts: TCP/IP, VPN, MPLS, ISIS and/or OSPF, BGP.

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The Network Engineer, Data Centre will be responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, deployment and support of cloud networking solutions. In this role you will combine your skills of routing & switching in the data centre with emerging cloud networking technologies and use automation and scripting to deliver services to our growing cloud centric customer base.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Plan, implement and document solutions in a complex network environment in support of new and existing cloud technology architectures.
• Automate and monitor various data centre services.
• Work with Development and Operations teams to automate solutions and integrate with other services/products/solutions.
• To develop state of the art solutions which are technically sound.
• Define, implement and document operational processes and procedures, with periodic review for efficiency and improvement
• Support complex projects from inception to completion.
• Work collaboratively with customers and technology teams to ensure high quality of solution delivery.
• Encourage best practice and knowledge sharing with partners and cross-functional groups
• Provide recommendations as they pertain to improvements in support/development initiatives and facilitate implementation with partners and cross-functional groups within the Business.
• Participate in high level technical solution definition and design during the implementation phase with the goal of providing reliable, stable and operationally sound applications that meet the Business requirements.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Provide level 2 and level 3 support to internal staff and top customer.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation supporting systems to meet SLAs.

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Minimum of 8 years networking experience of which 6 years in a complex data centre environment and at least 3 years with a Service Provider.
• Minimum Cisco CCNP certification.
• Advanced experience with internet routing protocols and concepts: TCP/IP, VPN, MPLS, ISIS and/or OSPF, BGP.