Latest Job Opportunities at Derivco

Job Description

• Derivco Cape Town is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Application Engineer (IT Support Services Engineer) to be part of our dynamic team.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Release, maintain, and monitor production software products or infrastructure components that meet the design, business requirements and standards of Derivco.
• Monitoring of support queues and prioritisation of incidents according to predefined criteria.
• Investigation and resolution or escalation of incidents.
• Root cause analysis.
• Creation and configuration of alerts based on monitoring coverage requirements.
• Monitoring of system performance and identification of current and future potential issues.
• Planning of small to medium scale solutions based IT engineering projects.
• Completion of allocated work items on IT engineering projects.
• Creation and maintenance of documentation.

Qualifications and Experience

• Academic qualifications in Computer Science or IT (advantageous).
• Relevant vendor certification (advantageous).
• 3 Years + years hands on experience in IT Support and supporting technology systems.

Technical Skills

• SQL
• Scripting Languages - Bash/Powershell/Python
• Server - Windows/Linux
• Public Cloud- Azure/AWS 
• Source control - Azure DevOps/Github
• Networking - F5/Load Balancers
• Version Control - GIT
• Markup Language - YAML
• Monitoring tools
• IAC - Ansible, Terraform
• Helm
• Containerization

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Job Description

• Derivco South Africa is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Developer to be part of our dynamic team.
• As a Senior Software Developer/Architect/Lead you will produce quality software products and documentation according to functional and non-functional specifications and the company's software development practices.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Agrees coaching strategy with team leadership and plays an active role in the coaching, be this technical coaching or mentorship.
• Works with other senior developers and architects to create and maintain the architectural vision for the team's products.
• Seeks to understand the business drivers for the team's products and ensures that the architectural vision and design solution align with these business drivers.
• Good understanding of the product lifecycle, including on production environments and operational overheads.
• Ensures the team's products use appropriate technologies and stay abreast of new technologies which could be leveraged to improve the product offering.
• Readily shares knowledge when tasked or approached.
• Proactively shares knowledge within the team and with key stakeholders.
• Proactively shares knowledge about the operational environment
• Analyses requirements and creates an appropriate software design, in conjunction with other Developers, according to best practice and organizational initiatives and objectives across product, where required.
• Assist and guide team members with their requirement analysis and design across product, where required.
• Creates appropriate task estimates and reviews them with the team. Supports the team in task estimation reviews.
• Develops and releases software as per the team standards and processes to meet the defined specifications or requirements within the agreed time.
• Ensures that the development or maintenance performed does not compromise the quality or functionality of the software.
• Communicates status and escalates on risks and issues appropriately and timeously.
• Comprehensively creates and maintains documentation of the software and system design and implementation, according to documentation standards.
• Develop, maintain, adhere to and oversee application of development and documentation standards, and team processes.
• Collaborating with senior colleagues in creating and maintaining the team's SDLC.
• Provides technical leadership in understanding the project complexity, scope and risk for your product
• Acquire and maintain in-depth knowledge of your product and understand it's internal and external dependencies
• Test your software as per the team's software quality charter.
• Make sure your software does what it supposed to do as per the defined specification.
• Test all changes you made and ensure that existing functionality works as expected.
• Takes full ownership of quality by working with the QA team to ensure the test plans are of a high quality and cover the full scope of development.
• Actively review and fix all defects found as per the defined quality standards.
• Actively drives the improvement of the team's quality standards and processes in keeping abreast of industry and emerging technologies.
• Help others improve the quality of their work.
• Facilitates team code reviews with the view to improve the quality of the team's software and upskilling of other team members.

Technical competencies:

• Required: Proficient in developing applications with C# and Microsoft .NET architecture including object-oriented design for 5+ years
• Proficient in SQL and database development
• Desired: Proficient in using Azure DevOps to manage CI/CD pipelines and artifacts
• Competent in planning and managing software quality throughout the SDLC to ensure security, reliability, efficiency and maintainability