Openings at ASSA ABLOY Group

As an Engineer, you’ll support HID’s success by: 

• Collaborating with other teams to ensure successful delivery of products.
• Participate in security reviews with the team helping to identify problem areas.
• Assist in finding solutions to the identified problems.
• Participate in preparing, reviewing, and completing project documentation.
• Writing good, maintainable code.
• Work on setting up and maintaining devops pipelines.
• Help with identifying and rectifying security related issues.

Your Skills, Experience and Education must include:     

• Legally eligible to work in South Africa.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• BSc in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• 2+ years of practical engineering.
• Proficient in C/C++, able to write performant, maintainable code.
• Ability to analyze a problem and determine the best steps to solve it.
• Ability to participate in the design process, providing insight and guidance.
• Comfortable working with in-circuit emulators, GNU toolchains, gdb and cmake.
• Strict attention to detail.
• Experience with distributed embedded systems.
• Familiarity with Git and Git workflows.
• Dedicated to learning and continuous growth.
• Able to identify unknowns in assigned task and go through the discovery process.

Preference will be given to candidates with the following:

• Familiarity with Yocto/Open-Embedded Linux.
• Experience with Secure Software Development Lifecycles.
• Experience Cryptographic Standards.
• Experience with QA processes.
• Familiarity with cyber security related tools and testing methodologies.
• SAFe or Agile experience.
• Experience with gitflow.
• Development experience in Rust/Golang

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Employees work primarily in an office environment, within a well-ventilated area, and is exposed to moderate noise levels.

Work Requirements

• Travel and fieldwork including international travel may be required, therefore employees must possess or can acquire valid travel authorization.

Closing: 

• 27-Nov-2025

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Summary of the role:

• Represent our company’s products and services, starting with a deep and comprehensive understanding and following with consumer research to identify how our solutions meet needs
• Meet weekly, monthly, and annual sales targets through the successful implementation of sales and marketing strategies and tactics
• Generate leads and build relationships by planning and organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales outlets
• Develop and implement territory action plan through comprehensive data analysis, and adjust sales techniques based on interactions and results in the field

Responsibilities:

• Maintain working relationships with existing clients to ensure exceptional service and identification of potential new sales opportunities
• Identify appropriate prospects, set appointments, make effective qualifying sales calls, and manage sales cycle to close new business in all service categories offered
• Possess in-depth product knowledge and be able to conduct demos and relay objection handling
• Prepare professional proposals
• Achieve sales goals by assessing current client needs and following a defined selling process with potential buyers
• Keep management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses.
• To maximize the sales of PDS category products (Service, spares, locks, access control etc) through identifying opportunities to expand category sales
• Distribute marketing & PDS material
• To sell spares and service to existing operator clients
• To sell SLA contracts on existing operators in the market
• To sell new equipment to existing clients as well as upgrade kits
• To promote and always sell ASSA ABLOY products
• Any other activities and new initiatives which enhance the development & growth of the PDS

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12 (matric)
• Valid Driver’s license
• Own vehicle
• Computer literacy (outlook and excel)
• Good knowledge of the geographical area
• Good knowledge of PDS systems and operators would be an advantage
• Technical acumen (Basic networking knowledge, understanding of jargon & comfortable with installation & set-up of programs / Apps e.g., pairing devices with IP settings)
• Solid sales background

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to work under pressure and travel extensively.
• Excellent interpersonal Skills
• Customer Service Centric
• Solution Oriented
• Great negotiating Skills

Closing: 

• 11 Sep-2025

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Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Manage and lead the software/firmware engineering team
• Mentoring younger engineers
• Review product specifications and designs
• Involved in design and code reviews
• Promotes secure software development lifecycle (SSDL)
• Participate and contribute in planning events, workshops, and system demonstrations
• Drive and support continuous improvement and other agile practices
• Interface with partners/customers to understand their needs and requirements
• Interface with manufacturers on issues relating to manufacturing, testing, and production
• Work closely with other engineering and quality teams

Education and/or Experience          

• Must possess a degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must possess a minimum of 3+ years engineering experience, preferably engineering in electronics industry with experience managing a team.
• Experience managing remote individuals that may be located in different timezones and/or countries
• Embedded development experience, with a focus on ARM Linux operating systems
• Programming experience in C/C++, C#, Rust
• Web development (HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, RESTful, JSON, XML, MQTT)
• Experience developing and deploying applications under Linux and Windows
• Experience with TCP/IP networking, transport layer protocols including TCP and UDP, and application layer protocols including HTTPS
• Experience with Agile methodologies.  Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) desired
• Experience with Jira highly desired
• Good knowledge of version control strategies (git flow, git trunk)
• Experience with secure coding practices as well as cyber security
• Understanding on how to make code maintainable
• Knowledge of digital certificates
• Experience with project management

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Employees work primarily in an office environment, within a well-ventilated area, and is exposed to moderate noise levels.

Work Requirements

• Travel and fieldwork including international travel may be required, therefore employees must possess or can acquire valid travel authorization.

Closing

• 28-Nov-2025

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Role & Responsibilities: - 

• Collaborating with other teams to ensure successful delivery of products.
• Participate in security reviews with the team helping to identify problem areas.
• Assist in finding solutions to the identified problems.
• Participate in preparing, reviewing, and completing project documentation.
• Writing good, maintainable code.
• Work on setting up and maintaining devops pipelines.
• Help with identifying and rectifying security related issues.

Desired Skills & Experience  

• Legally eligible to work in South Africa.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• BSc in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of practical engineering.
• Expert in C/C++, not just able to write code, but able to write performant, maintainable code.
• Proficient in developing within an embedded Linux environment.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as docker.
• Ability to analyze a problem and determine the best steps to solve it.
• Ability to participate in the design process, providing insight and guidance.
• Comfortable working with in-circuit emulators, GNU toolchains, gdb and cmake.
• Strict attention to detail.
• Experience with distributed embedded systems.
• Familiarity with Git and Git workflows.
• Dedicated to learning and continuous growth.
• Capable of taking a task assigned to you and demonstrating steady progress, realizing when you are going to be blocked and reaching out early.
• Able to identify unknowns in assigned tasks and go through the discovery process.

Preference will be given to candidates with the following:

• Familiarity with Yocto/Openembedded Linux will be a big benefit.
• Experience with Secure Software Development Lifecycles.
• Experience Cryptographic Standards.
• Experience with QA processes.
• Familiarity with cyber security related tools and testing methodologies.
• SAFe or Agile experience.
• Experience with gitflow.
• Experience with DevSecOps and tools like Snyk and Zaproxy

Closing:

• 30-Sep-2025