Jobs at SUMMIT Africa Recruitment

Principal Systems Engineer

• Our client is one of the largest Oracle Platinum Partners, and they hold a Gold Status Partnership with Microsoft. They offer a complete service in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). They take care of your technology so that your workforce is free to focus on your customers’ needs, build productivity, grow profits, and embark on the journey to Digital Transformation.

Core Description

• Technical lead on expert level for data center virtualization services, primarily VMware or Microsoft based, but also other hypervisors.
• Elevated research, design and architecture solutioning capability and skills.
• Unsupervised, responsible for installation and operational support of Virtualization Infrastructure and related back-end systems.
• Advanced solution documentation and drafting skills, including reference architectures, baseline documentation and standards.
• Advanced capacity management and balancing, rightsizing and demand versus supply management.
• Effectively executes all related tasks within the support areas with the focus on SLA management and delivery against these.
• Participation in project planning and implementations
• Experienced with Cloud Platforms

Key Deliverables / Primary Functions

Primarily responsible for :

• Primary and Shared Services clients support
• Virtualization infrastructure support –
  • VMware Virtualization infrastructure,
  • Microsoft Virtualization Infrastructure
  • Capacity Management Tools (e.g. Turbonomics)
• Back-End infrastructure applications support
• Virtual Workload Management
• Pre-Sales Support and Solution Review
• Consultative Engagement with Existing and Prospective Clients
• Research and Innovation/Automation
• Participating in Capacity Management & Data Analytics
• ITIL based management methodology
• Documentation/Technical Authoring
• Hardware/Software Installation
• Cross-Competency Systems Integration
• Systems Testing and Quality Assurance
• Dedicated Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Solutions
• Technical leading capacity to team members

Qualifications

• Matric or Grade 12 or NQF4
• Information Technology - national diploma or bachelor’s degree (optional)
• Relevant Information Technology technical qualification
• ITIL Foundation v3/v4
• Driver’s license minimum code 08

Experience

• Minimum of 10+ years relevant technical experience
• Experience in cloud virtualization industry will be advantageous
• Technical understanding of the industry

Certification

Suggested (as applicable):

• ITIL Foundation v3/v4
• VMware Certified Professional
• Microsoft Certified
• AWS Certification
• Azure Certification

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The Role

• A leading South African ecommerce retailer, is looking for a highly talented and Senior Data Engineer to join their team in Cape Town.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining data architectures.
• Preparing data for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive modeling
• Automating repetitive tasks and manual processes related with the data usage
• Optimizing data delivery
• Designing, developing, and testing large stream data pipelines to ingest, aggregate, clean, and distribute data models ready for analysis
• Ensuring the highest standard in data integrity
• Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborating with other engineers, ML experts, analysts, and stakeholders to produce the most efficient and valuable solutions
• Contributing to their data democratisation and literacy vision by making accessible and easy-to-use data products and tools
• Implementing features, technology, and processes that move them towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security
• Operations and ownership of systems in production, responding to incidents

Attributes required:

• Works well with people and is passionate about helping people be their best
• Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
• Is passionate about technology, systems and data
• Is curious, always learning, and keeping up to date with the industry
• Has a deep understanding of data pipelining, streaming, and Big Data technologies, methods, patterns, and techniques.
• Has a solid grasp on data modeling, schema design, data warehouse, and data lake design and implementation
• Can troubleshoot complex database operations and performance issues
• Can automate tasks using shell scripting or writing small applications

Qualifications & Experience:

• Computer Science Degree or 3 years relevant industry experience
• Experience with open source relational database systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of data modeling and schema design
• A thorough understanding of database and data warehousing principles (e.g. OLAP, Data Marts, Star Schema, Snowflake, etc.)
• Write code (we use Java and Python)
• Familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis, Circle CI, etc.
• Experience with Kafka, PubSub, or other event-based systems
• Experience with stream data pipeline frameworks or solutions such as Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Storm, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, lambda/kappa architectures
• Experience working in cloud environments and with containerisation frameworks, tools and platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, etc.).