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Job Purpose
- To be responsible for co-ordinating, implementing and maintaining system architectures, including server hardware, Windows server operating systems, and utilities, and related client services within the organisation and ensuring to meet service level agreements. To be responsible for identification and resolution of complex server hardware and operating system software technical problems and malfunctions related to network and related servers and makes decisions that are critical in the areas of performance analysis, problem solving, and infrastructure planning, with the potential to affect the successful execution of business transactions, ensuring a stable performance environment for the enterprise business processing system. Work in both Production and non-production environments.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Information Systems AND 5 - 7 years’ experience in an IT environment, of which 2 - 3 years is at a technically skilled level
ALTERNATIVE #
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years related experience in an IT environment, of which 2 - 3 years is at a technically skilled level
Minimum Functional Requirements
- Need to be familiar with: Microsoft Windows: Active Directory, VMware, Networking, Server Infrastructure support, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft products (Microsoft SCOM, Microsoft SCCM, or any other Microsoft Certification); or Wintel Intel Server: (A+, N+, MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, Azure) and related Server Operating System and Server Hardware certification related to server support), or VMware Certification.
Industry Related Qualifications and Experience
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND Relevant IT Qualification (s) / Certification (s), and 5 - 7 years’ experience in a similar environment AND additional requirements specified in Min Functional requirements, where applicable Microsoft Windows: Active Directory, VMware, Networking, Server Infrastructure support, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft products (Microsoft SCOM, Microsoft SCCM, or any other Microsoft Certification); or Wintel Intel Server: (A+, N+, MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, Azure) and related Server Operating System and Server Hardware certification related to server support), or VMware Certification.
Additional Technical Competencies
- Engineering Planning and Design (IT) Proficient in - (Applied theory). Break down objects or ideas into simpler parts and find evidence to support generalisations. Compile component ideas into a new whole or proposed alternative solution. Can perform the actions associated with the skill without assistance and is recognised within own organisation as "a person to ask" when difficult questions arise regarding this skill. Focus is on broad issues; Capable of coaching others; Participate in senior level discussions regarding this competency; Has consistently provided ideas and perspectives on process or practice improvements; Assist in the development of reference and resource materials in this competency.
- GOC Confidential - (a) sensitive information, the unlawful disclosure of which may be harmful to the security or national interest of the Republic or could prejudice the Republic in its international relations;(b) commercial information, the disclosure of which may cause financial loss to an entity or may prejudice an entity in its relations with its clients, competitors, contractors and suppliers. E.g. Taxpayer information
Job Outputs:
Process
- Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
- Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
- Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
- Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
- Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.
- Initiate process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements as a result of the change.
- Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
- Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process, product and risk optimisation.
- Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records.
- Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems and participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
- Coordinate and perform in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new systems.
- Design and perform server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company's disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
- Developing, maintaining and supporting technical infrastructure, hardware and system software components and document it accordingly.
- Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose causes and possible effects in to solve emerging problems. Initiate change process and implement changes, provide guidelines and support as a results of the change.
- Ensure system connectivity of all servers, shared software, groupware, and other applications.
- Execute specialist input through investigation and opportunities within the product process including risk concern.
- Integrate servers and their associated software into enterprise systems/solutions.
- Liaise with stakeholders for problem resolution.
- Maintenance, support and upgrades of in-house developed applications and 3rd Party Applications, including issues like security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
- including issues like security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
- Manage the Regional Data Centres.
- Participate in the administration and maintenance of the remote monitoring and management system: update agent scripts, respond to alerts, monitor dashboard, and periodic system review.
- Participates in various IT projects intended to continually improve/upgrade the system infrastructure, ensuring change management procedures and methodologies are implemented and followed.
- Perform hardware and software assessments; assist in security audits and new business investigations.
- Performing high-level root-cause analysis for service interruption recovery and creating preventive measures.
- Performing installation, maintenance and support of system software/hardware and user support.
- Plan for value-added process improvements initiatives for current systems to be more effective and efficient and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability whilst monitoring and perform test application performance for potential bottlenecks identify possible solutions.
- Responsible for the configuring, debugging and supporting multiple infrastructure platforms and software stacks.
- Responsible for the situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
- Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks to ensure compatibility and interoperability of in-house computing systems.
- Analyse, prepare and deliver system performance statistics and reports.
- Recommend and create system design models, specifications diagrams and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams.
Governance
- Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity and ethics processes within area of specialisation.
People
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
- Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job. Finance
- Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.
Client
- Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
- Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural Competencies
- Accountability
- Analytical thinking
- Attention to detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Conceptual Ability
- Customer Service
- Fairness and Transparency
- Honesty and Integrity
- Organisational Awareness
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- Respect
- Trust
Technical Competencies
- Business IT Systems
- Business Knowledge
- Customer Relationship Management
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Efficiency improvement
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Infrastructure/Platforms
- IT Knowledge
- IT Project Management
- Knowledge of IT Governance and Business
- Planning and Organising
- Problem Analysis and Judgement
- Reporting
- Service Delivery
- System Thinking
Deadline:3rd April,2026
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Job Purpose
- To facilitate and coordinate the management of high severity incidents and the investigation of the cause of problems.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- National Diploma (NQF6) in Information Technology AND 2-3 years' experience in an Information Technology environment, of which 1-2 years is at knowledge worker level.
ALTERNATIVE#
- Senior Certificate (NQF4) AND 5 years’ experience in Information Technology environment, of which 1-2 years is at knowledge worker level.
Job Outputs:
Process
- Be observant and engage on possible violations of procedures and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.
- Take accountability for delivery of contracted work outputs within agreed parameters, quality standards and client service targets.
- Plan and organise own work tasks within area of work.
- Report on transactional activity progression within set guidelines to provide timely information for decision making in area of accountability.
- Ensure quality of work content, quick turnaround, prioritise, minimise mistakes and continuously improve quality, service and standards.
- Communication of transactional outputs and queries in area of work.
- Deliver on contracted performance objectives according to set procedures and agreed service level agreements.
- Embrace change initiatives and positively contribute to the success thereof within area of accountability.
- Identify problems, apply known solutions in line with procedures or guidelines and escalate unresolved problems.
- Plan and organise own work in an effective and efficient manner to reach agreed performance objectives.
Governance
- Comply with and adhere to identified governance and compliance standards and escalate problems for investigation and resolution.
People
- Drive own performance and development in order to achieve and improve work outputs in line with required response time, quality and service delivery standards.
- Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.
Finance
- Adhere to specified policies, standards, legislation and procedures to prevent wastage on resources, unauthorised expenditure and wasteful expenditure and report violations.
Client
- Ensure own understanding and adherence to customer service delivery in order to meet or exceed customer expectations.
- Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
Behavioural Competencies
- Accountability
- Honesty and Integrity
- Fairness and Transparency
- Trust
- Respect
- Problem Solving and Analysis
Technical Competencies
- Computer Literacy
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Business IT Systems
- IT Strategy and Planning
- System Thinking
- Standard operating procedure compliance
Deadline:3rd April,2026
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Job Purpose
- To coordinate the timely resolution of incidents and the timely fulfilment of service requests on a national basis.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- National Diploma / Advanced Certificate (NQF 6) in Information Technology AND 3 years’ experience in IT Service Management, Service Desk, or Incident Management environment, of which 1 - 2 years is at a knowledge worker level.
ALTERNATIVE #
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 5 years’ experience in IT Service Management, Service Desk, or Incident Management environment, of which 1 - 2 years is at a knowledge worker level
Job Outputs:
Process
- Coordinate the logging, prioritisation, tracking, escalation, and closure of IT incidents and service requests.
- Ensure incidents and requests are managed in accordance with ITIL processes and internal SOPs.
- Communication of transactional outputs and queries in the area of work.
- Deliver on contracted performance objectives according to the set procedures and agreed service level agreements.
- Embrace change initiatives and positively contribute to the success thereof within the area of accountability.
- Identify problems, apply known solutions in line with procedures or guidelines and escalate unresolved problems.
- Plan and organise own work effectively and efficiently to reach agreed performance objectives.
- Report on transactional activity progression within set guidelines to provide timely information for decision-making in the area of accountability.
- Ensure quality of work content, quick turnaround, prioritise, minimise mistakes and continuously improve quality, service and standards.
- Route requests and incidents that cannot be solved to the correct second line support group.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers, SARS role players and third parties to achieve predefined objectives.
- Experience coordinating Major Incidents in an enterprise environment.
Governance
- Comply with and adhere to identified governance and compliance standards and escalate problems for investigation and resolution.
- Ensure that completed work adheres to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations & discrepancies.
People
- Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.
- Drive own performance and development to achieve and improve work outputs in line with required response time, quality and service delivery standards.
Finance
- Adhere to specified policies, standards, legislation and procedures to prevent wastage of resources, unauthorised expenditure and wasteful expenditure and report violations.
Client
- Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides an opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
- Ensure own understanding and adherence to customer service delivery to meet or exceed customer expectations.
- Monitor and escalate incidents and requests to ensure agreed Service Level Agreements are met.
Behavioural Competencies
- Accountability
- Customer Service
- Fairness and Transparency
- Honesty and Integrity
- Respect
- Stakeholder Engagement and Management
- Trust
Technical Competencies
- Customer Relationship Management
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Query Resolution
- SARS Systems Products
- Standard operating procedure compliance
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Job Purpose
- The Ops Manager: Strategic Sourcing (ICT) will support and execute ICT strategic sourcing and contracting activities within an approved governance framework. The role focuses on operationalising sourcing strategies, managing ICT contracts, supporting negotiations, and ensuring compliance with procurement policies, procedures, and legislation.
- S/he will develop and deploy sourcing ICT commodity strategies to deliver value through strategic sourcing. To manage portfolio of commodities through cross functional sourcing teams for effective execution of portfolio based commodity strategies, as well as ensuring the overall sustainability of commodity based initiatives.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Commerce/ Supply Chain and/or Business Management AND 5-7 years' experience in Strategic Sourcing, Project Management and/or Tender Administration, of which 1 year is at supervisory level.
ALTERNATIVE#
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years’ experience in Strategic Sourcing, Project Management and/or Tender Administration, of which 1 year is at supervisory level.
Minimum Functional Requirements
- Functional experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Project Management & Tender Administration.
The successful candidate must demonstrate hands‑on experience with one or more of the following ICT contract types:
- Infrastructure & Network Contracts
- Software & Licensing Contracts
- Support & Managed Services Contracts
- ICT Project & Professional Services Contracts.
- Security & Technology Risk Contracts.
Job Outputs:
Process
- Act as chairperson of Bid Specification Committee and the Bid Evaluation Committee (BEC).
- Execute ICT sourcing activities in line with approved sourcing strategies and procurement demand plans.
- Conduct basic to intermediate cost analysis (TCO and pricing benchmarks).
- Actively support and develop accredited small BEE and SMMEs through providing guidance on tender process and available business opportunities.
- Collate and analyse data that measures the control of prices and costs, innovations and deliveries with suppliers and take actions to improve performance.
- Contribute to the management of the procurement function taking steps to mitigate challenges and difficulties to resolve conflict within SARS.
- Create plans with stakeholders to improve supply chain management.
- Create risk assessments, registers or other risk evaluation tools for projects and agree actions with suppliers and other stakeholders to allocate or share risks to avoid claims, variations or disruptions.
- Develop hierarchies of categories for both direct and indirect expenditure that can be subjected to category management and strategic procurement.
- Development and management of supplier relationships in conjunction with internal client (contracts).
- Devise and monitor key performance indicators for sustainability with suppliers and take appropriate actions to ensure delivery to agreed standards
- Ensure that the needs of SARS are met; take appropriate actions by co-ordinating the implementation of contract negotiation, communication with suppliers or modifying procedures to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Ensuring that the procurement function, however exercised within SARS, complies with all statutory requirements and the SARS Procurement Policy and Procedures.
- Evaluate and apply appropriate methodology to achieve improved category management, historical and forecasted data on categories of spend to help formulate a category plan and develop category management plan by analysing market factors.
- Investigate and make recommendations to management on the development of e-catalogue that can be applied to procurement and assess developments in system technology and make recommendations to colleagues and other stakeholders.
- Work with stakeholders and communicate standards to eliminate bribery corruption and fraud in supply chain and take appropriate actions in the event of any alleged breach of standards
- Investigate the use of P2P systems used in procurement and make recommendations to senior management.
- Liaise with all GMs regarding ending contracts.
- Loading all awarded contracts on SAP.
- Manage for all procurement and tender activities with a value of R200,000 (RFP/RFT/RFI) or more or as may be determined by SARS from time to time.
- Provide advise to colleagues and other stakeholders on how to promote sustainable and responsible procurement in SARS.
- Research information on suppliers using appropriate sources of information to select appropriate suppliers and evaluate financial, commercial and technical capabilities of potential suppliers.
- Review contracts and recommend appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any default or breach of contract and evaluate and recommend appropriate actions to be taken to resolve variations, claims or compensation events.
- Responsible for all price adjustments on all contracts.
- Responsible for tender management, by reviewing all tenders and recommending and adjudication in line with delegations of authority.
- Responsible, in consultation with Supplier Performance Specialists, for vendor performance management.
- Apply the necessary discretion and judgment in making decisions and overcoming obstacles in order to attain set goals and objectives for area of accountability.
- Deploy resources appropriately and anticipate and resolve problems to ensure that tactical targets are achieved within agreed deadlines & standards.
- Ensure procedures, policies and mandates are clearly understood and complied with.
- Frequently report on progress of unit and or team against pre-defined objectives and standards, ensuring accurate representation of facts.
- Implement change & provide guidelines to direct reports defining the impact of change, the change itself & new requirements as a result of the change.
- Manage a work function or unit by focusing on the delivery and achievement of set objectives within specified time frames, costs and standards.
- Plan and organise multiple work outputs by assigning priorities and continuously reviewing objectives and goals.
- Provide input into the development of the tactical strategy as well as develop and implement a supporting operational strategy.
- Apply discretion and judgement to diagnose symptoms, causes and effects and to make decisions to overcome problems and to provide solutions.
- Ensure the development, alignment and implementation of end-to-end processes within area of accountability for continued process improvement.
- Link and communicate unit's objectives back to mandate, schedule and prioritise activities and allocate work to meet identified work outputs.
- Accumulate information to report on work progress and use for decision making purposes and the identification of improvement opportunities.
- Implement resource plans in line with delivery and performance objectives, on budget and in partnership with specialised areas.
- Prepare reports and recommendations for Bid Evaluation Committees (BEC), Bid Adjudication Committees (BAC), and management structures.
Governance
- Implement and use governance & compliance procedures & processes effectively to identify and manage risks and expose previously unknown liabilities.
- Implement risk management, governance and compliance policies and processes to identify and manage risks and expose liabilities.
- Understand and implement governance control processes and role segregation requirements in area of accountability.
People
- Build strong relationships through providing direction and leadership to own team and expressing positive expectations.
- Encourage and enable teamwork, by enabling collaboration with others and commitment to pursuing set goals.
- Implement appropriate people capacity plans in line with delivery and efficiency targets, on budget and in partnership with specialised areas.
- Monitor and actively manage team performance to meet specified objectives against required targets, deadlines and quality standards.
Finance
- Draw up a budget aligned to operational delivery plans, monitor and report on variances.
- Ensure team's adherence to specified policies, standards & procedures to prevent & reduce wastage on financial resources & escalate associated risk.
- Implement, manage and report on cost improvement objectives and communicate or escalate any shortfalls.
Client
- Develop and implement processes which builds client service delivery excellence and encourages others to provide exceptional service.
Behavioural Competencies
- Accountability
- Adaptability
- Fairness and Transparency (V)
- Honesty and Integrity (V)
- Conceptual Thinking
- Championing the Mandate
- Influencing Others
- Mobilising Teams
- Driving for Excellence
- Leveraging Diversity
- Accurate Understanding -
- Developing Others
- Trust (V)-
- Respect (V)
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- Building Sustainability
Technical Competencies
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Tax Knowledge
- Effective Business Communication
- Managerial Budgeting
- Effective Business Communication
- Problem Analysis and Judgement
- Planning and Organising
- Decisiveness
- Business Acumen
- Expenditure Management
- SARS Systems Products
- Supply Chain Management
- Procurement Knowledge
- the maintenance, reconciliation and
Deadline:7th April,2026
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Job Purpose
- To be responsible for identify shortcomings in SARS processes, gaps in systems that allow fraud, trends of activities where SARS is defrauded, and to assist in designing controls and solutions to mitigate identified risks and to reports on suspicious and unauthorized activities on the SARS IT Systems.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Computer Science, IT or related fields, AND 8-10 years' experience in an Information Security Operations, of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level
OR
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND IT Qualification (s) / Certification (s) Information Security, and 8-10 years’ experience in an Information Security Operations of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level, AND additional requirements as specified in the Min Functional requirements.
ALTERNATIVE #
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years’ experience in Information Security Operations, of which 3 - 4 years at a junior specialist level AND additional requirements as specified in the Min Functional requirements.
Minimum Functional Requirements
- 3-4 years’ experience in IT Security with 2 – 5 Year SQL experience.
Job Outputs:
Process
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies
- and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
- Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Translate top-down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
- Develop technical strategic and/or process and/or mitigation measures to security, application and system vulnerabilities across IT landscape.
- Design and develop reports that will provide visibility to line managers in order to manage any risks within their respective areas relating to fraud, prevention of fraud and access to information.
- Provide support to Network Security support with all internal/external audits and security assessments related to area of responsibility.
- Initiate and develop the resolution of negative audit findings reported by internal or external auditors in area of responsibility.
- Develop intermediate controls in parallel with long term controls.
- Report on performance of team, status updates on outstanding tasks, escalation of high impact risks.
- Provide expert analysis IT Security mitigation implementations and develop recommendations in order to address any risks identified within the IT Security infrastructure, application and system environments relating to fraud and prevention of fraud or access to information.
- Giving input to risk management principles through risk assessments, risk mitigation proposals, and inputs on various forums including but not limited to change/release management processes, projects, governance initiatives, audit requirements, vulnerability assessments and other processes.
- Provide input to current/new IT Security strategies, architectures, policies, standard, procedures, SOPs, user training material and guides or other organisational policies which influences IT security to align with business and audit requirements relating to the prevention of fraud or access to information.
- Measure impact of controls against Policies, Processes and Guidelines of SARS, as well as relevant legislation.
Governance
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
Finance
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
Client
- Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
- Accountability
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Conceptual Ability
- Expertise in Context
- Fairness and Transparency
- Honesty and Integrity
- Respect
- Trust
Technical competencies
- Business IT Systems
- Business Knowledge
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Efficiency improvement
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Business IT Systems
- IT Knowledge
- IT Network and Securities
- IT Strategy and Planning
- Reporting
- System Thinking
- Knowledge of IT Governance and Business
- Efficiency improvement
Deadline:19th April, 2026
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Job Purpose
- To be responsible for identify shortcomings in SARS processes, gaps in systems that allow fraud, trends of activities where SARS is defrauded, and to assist in designing controls and solutions to mitigate identified risks and to reports on suspicious and unauthorized activities on the SARS IT Systems.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) Information Security AND 8-10 years' experience in an Information Security Operations, of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level
OR
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND IT Qualification (s) / Certification (s) Information Security, and 8-10 years’ experience in an Information Security Operations of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level, AND additional requirements as specified in the Min Functional requirements.
ALTERNATIVE #
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years’ experience in Information Security Operations of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level AND additional requirements as specified in the Min Functional requirements.
Minimum Functional Requirements
- 5 or more years’ hands‑on experience securing and supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure in an enterprise environment.
- Proven experience implementing and operating Azure-native security controls, including Azure Firewall, Network Security Groups (NSGs), private endpoints, DDoS Protection, and secure hybrid connectivity.
- Practical experience applying Azure governance and access controls, including Azure Policy, role-based access control (RBAC), and standardised landing zone security controls.
Job Outputs:
Process
- Design, implement, and maintain secure Azure infrastructure architectures, including virtual networks, segmentation, routing, and hybrid connectivity.
- Implement and operate Azure infrastructure security controls, including firewalls, network security groups, private endpoints, and DDoS protection.
- Ensure Azure compute and platform services are securely configured in line with defence‑in‑depth principles.
- Establish and enforce Azure governance and security guardrails, including policies, RBAC, and standardised landing zone controls.
- Support the secure onboarding of Azure workloads, subscriptions, and services.
- Conduct infrastructure security assessments and recommend remediation actions.
- Provide specialist input into cloud security architecture designs, standards, and technical reviews.
- Maintain documentation, standards, and procedures related to Azure infrastructure security.
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies
- and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
- Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Translate top-down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
- Develop technical strategic and/or process and/or mitigation measures to security, application and system vulnerabilities across IT landscape.
- Design and develop reports that will provide visibility to line managers in order to manage any risks within their respective areas relating to fraud, prevention of fraud and access to information.
- Measure impact of controls against Policies, Processes and Guidelines of SARS, as well as relevant legislation.
Governance
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
Finance
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
Client
- Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
- Accountability
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Conceptual Ability
- Expertise in Context
- Fairness and Transparency
- Honesty and Integrity
- Respect
- Trust
Technical competencies
- Business IT Systems
- Business Knowledge
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Efficiency improvement
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Business IT Systems
- IT Knowledge
- IT Network and Securities
- IT Strategy and Planning
- Reporting
- System Thinking
- Knowledge of IT Governance and Business
- Efficiency improvement
Deadline:19th April, 2026
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Job Purpose
- To be responsible for identify shortcomings in SARS processes, gaps in systems that allow fraud, trends of activities where SARS is defrauded, and to assist in designing controls and solutions to mitigate identified risks and to reports on suspicious and unauthorized activities on the SARS IT Systems.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Requirement
- Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Computer Science, IT or related fields, AND 8-10 years' experience in an Information Security Operations, of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level
OR
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND IT Qualification (s) / Certification (s) Information Security, and 8-10 years’ experience in an Information Security Operations of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level, AND additional requirements as specified in the Min Functional requirements.
ALTERNATIVE #
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years’ experience in Information Security Operations, of which 3 - 4 years at a junior specialist level AND additional requirements as specified in the Min Functional requirements.
Minimum Functional Requirements
- 3-4 years’ experience in IT Security with 2 – 5 Year SQL experience.
Job Outputs:
Process
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies
- and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
- Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Translate top-down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
- Develop technical strategic and/or process and/or mitigation measures to security, application and system vulnerabilities across IT landscape.
- Design and develop reports that will provide visibility to line managers in order to manage any risks within their respective areas relating to fraud, prevention of fraud and access to information.
- Provide support to Network Security support with all internal/external audits and security assessments related to area of responsibility.
- Initiate and develop the resolution of negative audit findings reported by internal or external auditors in area of responsibility.
- Develop intermediate controls in parallel with long term controls.
- Report on performance of team, status updates on outstanding tasks, escalation of high impact risks.
- Provide expert analysis IT Security mitigation implementations and develop recommendations in order to address any risks identified within the IT Security infrastructure, application and system environments relating to fraud and prevention of fraud or access to information.
- Giving input to risk management principles through risk assessments, risk mitigation proposals, and inputs on various forums including but not limited to change/release management processes, projects, governance initiatives, audit requirements, vulnerability assessments and other processes.
- Provide input to current/new IT Security strategies, architectures, policies, standard, procedures, SOPs, user training material and guides or other organisational policies which influences IT security to align with business and audit requirements relating to the prevention of fraud or access to information.
- Measure impact of controls against Policies, Processes and Guidelines of SARS, as well as relevant legislation.
Governance
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
Finance
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation
Client
- Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
- Accountability
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Conceptual Ability
- Expertise in Context
- Fairness and Transparency
- Honesty and Integrity
- Respect
- Trust
Technical competencies
- Business IT Systems
- Business Knowledge
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Efficiency improvement
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Business IT Systems
- IT Knowledge
- IT Network and Securities
- IT Strategy and Planning
- Reporting
- System Thinking
- Knowledge of IT Governance and Business
- Efficiency improvement
Deadline:19th April, 2026
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Job Purpose
- To provide expert advice and support on Information Security strategies in order to achieve business objectives.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Information Security, Computer Science, IT, or related field AND 5-7 years' experience in IT Security or Cloud Security, of which 2-3 years hands-on cloud security engineering role.
ALTERNATIVE #
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years IT Security, including practical experience securing cloud platforms of which 2-3 years hands-on cloud security engineering role.
Minimum Functional Requirements
- Strong understanding of cloud security concepts, shared responsibility models, and secure cloud architectures.
- Experience securing cloud identities, networks, workloads, and data
- Knowledge of security monitoring, logging, and incident response in cloud environments
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance, risk management, and IT governance principles
- Ability to analyse security gaps and recommend practical, risk-based solutions
Job Outputs:
Process
- To proactively protect SARS cloud environments by identifying security risks, implementing preventative and detective controls, and monitoring for suspicious or unauthorised activities.
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud security controls across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
- Secure cloud identities and access using least-privilege principles and strong authentication mechanisms.
- Ensure Azure compute and platform services are securely configured in line with defence‑in‑depth principles.
- Configure and monitor cloud security posture management and threat detection capabilities.
- Support secure cloud network designs, including segmentation, firewalling, and secure connectivity.
- Review cloud architectures, configurations, and infrastructure-as-code templates for security compliance.
- Investigate, analyse, and report on cloud-related security incidents and suspicious activities.
- Contribute to the development of cloud security standards, policies, and technical guidelines.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cyber security teams to embed security by design.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers, SARS role players and third parties to achieve predefined objectives.
- Execute specialist input through investigation &opportunities within the product process including risk concern.
- Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process product and risk optimisation.
- Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
- Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
- Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
- Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
- Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.
- Initiate process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements as a result of the change.
- Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
Governance
- Ensure that completed work adhere to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations & discrepancies.
- Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity and ethics processes within area of specialisation.
People
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
- Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
Finance
- Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.
Client
- Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
- Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
- Fairness and Transparency
- Analytical Thinking
- Accountability
- Conceptual Ability
- Organisational Awareness
- Respect
- Trust
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- Honesty and Integrity
- Customer Service
- Attention to Detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Building Sustainability
Technical competencies
- System Thinking
- Computer Literacy
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Business IT Systems
- IT Strategy and Planning
- Reporting
- Information Security Management
- Business Knowledge
- Efficiency improvement
Deadline:19th April, 2026
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Job Purpose
- To be responsible for identify shortcomings in SARS processes, gaps in systems that allow fraud, trends of activities where SARS is defrauded, and to assist in designing controls and solutions to mitigate identified risks and to reports on suspicious and unauthorized activities on the SARS IT Systems.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Computer Science, IT or related fields, AND 8-10 years' experience in an Information Security Operations, of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level.
OR
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND IT Qualification (s) / Certification (s) Information Security, and 8-10 years’ experience in an Information Security Operations, of which 3-4 years at Junior specialist level AND additional requirements specified in Min Functional requirements.
ALTERNATIVE #
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years’ experience in Information Security Operations, of which 3 - 4 years at a junior specialist level AND additional requirements specified in Min Functional requirements.
Minimum Functional Requirements
- 3-4 years’ experience in IT Security with 2 – 5 Year SQL experience.
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
- Knowledge: Expertise in IT security, IP networking, virtualization, and DevOps tools.
- Certifications: Professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Architect Expert, or TOGAF.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication skills to lead workshops, mentor technical teams, and manage client relationships
Job Outputs:
Process
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Architectural Design: Create comprehensive blueprints for cloud infrastructure, including networks, data storage, and application stacks.
- Strategy & Migration: Develop cloud adoption strategies and lead migration projects, moving legacy applications to cloud environments.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure all cloud solutions adhere to security standards, regulatory compliance, and data protection requirements.
- Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud environments for performance and cost-effectiveness (FinOps).
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a consultant to business stakeholders, translating requirements into technical solutions. Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Translate top-down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
- Develop intermediate controls in parallel with long term controls.
- Provide expert analysis IT Security mitigation implementations and develop recommendations in order to address any risks identified within the IT Security infrastructure, application and system environments.
- Provide input to current/new IT Security strategies, architectures, policies, standard, procedures, SOPs, user training material and guides or other organisational policies which influences IT security to align with business.
Governance
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
Finance
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
Client
- Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
- Accountability
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Conceptual Ability
- Expertise in Context
- Fairness and Transparency
- Honesty and Integrity
- Respect
- Trust
Technical competencies
- Business IT Systems
- Business Knowledge
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Efficiency improvement
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Business IT Systems
- IT Knowledge
- IT Network and Securities
- IT Strategy and Planning
- Reporting
- System Thinking
- Knowledge of IT Governance and Business
- Efficiency improvement
Deadline:19th April, 2026
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