Recruitment Opportunities at Progressive Edge

Role Overview:

As an Executive Recruiter at Progressive Edge, you will play a pivotal role in helping us find the perfect senior to executive-level candidates for our clients, and for your own clients, doing so with high quality as you build your reputation and represent the business's values. We're not your typical recruitment agency; we prioritize quality over quantity, and we're on a mission to discover top-tier talent and top-tier clients who share our commitment to excellence. You'll be entrusted with complex roles that require a deep understanding of business contexts, technology landscapes, and executive-level requirements. To excel in this role, you need to be a seasoned recruiter, polished, reliable, and dependable. Your background should provide you with broad experience and contexts. You should be proactive, making things happen rather than waiting for them, and capable of guiding clients, candidates, and colleagues. Ideally, you strike a balance between being approachable, accommodating, and professional, while also being firm when necessary.

As an executive recruiter, you will work on both contingency and retained searches and treat them with equal care. You will be a trusted advisor to both clients and candidates and will go the extra mile to meet and exceed reasonable expectations on both sides of the hiring equation, for candidates and clients alike.

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will be focused on three areas: Clients, Candidates, and Progressive Edge's internal operations.

• Collaborate with the business to become the go-to team for our type of clients seeking high-level positions.
• Assist in further developing and nurturing our client base.
• Ensure that your efforts enhance the client's impression of our brand as reliable, trusted advisors, and successful 'deliverers' of their important needs.
• Work closely with clients to thoroughly understand their hiring needs, including participating in client discovery sessions.
• Identify, attract, and engage high-calibre executive-level and senior-level candidates.
• Develop detailed recruitment plans and follow them through to successful completion, adjusting as needed. Maintain meticulous tracking to enable reporting and continuous improvement.
• Rigorously track processes on internal systems to gather data for metrics reporting.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with both clients and candidates.
• Ensure successful placements for the roles you are entrusted with.
• Generate new business through existing clients and new clients.
• Conduct thorough interviews and assessments to evaluate candidates' experience, culture fit, and qualifications.
• Provide candidates with insightful guidance and support throughout the hiring process.
• Maintain the highest level of professionalism, ethics, and quality in all interactions.
• Contribute to reporting efforts.
• Contribute to the internal culture and growth strategy of the business.
• Collaborate with your internal team to continuously refine and enhance internal processes and systems.

Requirements:

• 6+ years solid recruitment experience, but preferably closer to 10 years. Proven experience in reliable delivery in a senior to executive-level recruitment role, preferably within the technology sector.
• Your more recent experience will need to be focused more on EXTERNAL (Agency) recruitment than internal, there are many reasons for this request and we cannot negotiate on this requirement.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exemplary writing skills, including impeccable spelling and grammar, and the ability to convey all written communications in a professional and courteous manner.
• Ability to influence, guide, and contribute.
• Ethical, professional, and emotionally intelligent.
• Recent stable work history and a proven track record of delivering long-term value to companies (essential).
• Highly organized with the ability to manage complex recruitment processes.
• Ability to recruit for complex roles.
• Ability to take on technology-related roles in new areas and extract the necessary information to fully understand the requirements.
• Ability to manage your own targets and desk without the need for micro-management.
• Ability to set and follow your own tasks.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of technology organizations.
• Commitment to quality and a reputation for excellence (essential).
• This role is only open to candidates based in SA.
• We can only consider candidates with over 6 years in a recruitment or resourcing position.

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A senior recruiter in the Progressive Edge Recruitment business is a professional who is critical in identifying, sourcing and placing top technical talent for our valued clients across Cape Town. You will also need to be excited about working as a team to bring in, close and deliver on new and existing business your area of expertise lies in both partnering with companies and great talent and walking them through the recruitment process while having fun doing so.

The kind of recruiters who excel at progressive edge are specialists with advisory skills.

You will be responsible for proactively sourcing, screening, interviewing, and placing qualified candidates, and partnering with your client throughout the full recruitment cycle. The ideal candidate for this role will thrive in a quality-focused boutique specialist agency.

Our Value Proposition

Progressive Edge is a well-respected Boutique Tech recruitment agency. Our own clients are our best business developers and recommend us over and over again.

You will work in a powerhouse team with passionate recruiters together we play, strategize, bounce ideas off each other and support each other. No one works alone. We offer a supportive environment rather than a competitive environment.

As a team, we are group of very different individuals who all love recruitment this is a rare thing but a prerequisite for working for Progressive Edge. We hold high standards and intentionally draw nearer to companies (clients) who do the same.

To us, this isnt just a job. This is a place where work is one of the ways we all grow and expand, and where we create opportunities for ourselves and others. This is a role where you affect the lives of people, and where you help our clients progress with growing their business in complex technical areas. You will drive processes to ensure that quality matches are being made, in an ethical and efficient way. You will work with your team to keep improving these processes and innovating.

If togetherness and being more than a lone wolf appeals to you then this will be the right spot for you. We work remotely but not in isolation. For those based in Cape Town, we meet up for chatty breakfasts or lunches from time to time, always in a beautiful spot.

Heres who we are looking for from a personality perspective, is this you?

• A self-driven individual who cares about quality and takes pride in the work they produce. You need to have a polished approach to your work
• A person who can be relied upon by their teams, their clients and the candidates who trust them with their applications
• A person who values their reputation, and conducts their work in an honest and ethical manner, even when it means turning away placements, clients, candidates or saying no
• If you came from a dodgy agency you would need to leave some of those practices at the door! No marketing CVs without candidates knowing, no spamming, and no mass mails and no annoying potential clients with cold calls.
• You need to actually enjoy recruitment not everyone does
• The ideal candidate will think out of the box when needed, to find solutions to recruitment challenges we face as a business. We are not looking to stay the same and keep working in the same way, we want people to help us continuously re-shape our way as a team
• You naturally build strong relationships, you have a kind demeaner, but can be firm when required
• You take initiative
• You close the loop on each piece of work without being asked to do so
• You are interested in, and excited by technology.
• Ability to look up and learn new areas of technologies that you dont have exposure to, to independently and continuously build your knowledge in your market to ensure more effective matches across various stacks and areas of technology
• You are people-centric and have a genuine care for the well-being of others, and yourself
• You have a sense of humour, along with a strong moral compass
• Committed to quality over quantity

These are the kinds of things that will keep you busy

• Research, source, identify and interview candidates for open positions allocated to you to ensure you maintain these clients
• Walk both clients & candidates through the entire recruitment cycle
• Update and maintain the ATS giving care to data quality
• Update & maintain both CRM, & Project Management tools
• Both permanent and contracting positions may form part of your portfolio
• Contribute to the constant improvement of systems, tools & processes
• Implement your own operational structures to ensure you are meeting the volumes you need to in order to meet the expectations of the business, your clients, and anyone else you have committed to
• Work with the team in streamlining processes to continuously improve business processes and workflows
• Continuously attract talent by using multiple sources to advertise and recruit
• Continuously build a talent pipeline and referral network
• Negotiating offers
• Ad-hoc administrative duties
• Develop and update job descriptions
• Efficiently manage a strong candidate flow to the team
• Identify and implement new innovative ways to source and connect with talent
• Mentor other recruiters and share knowledge wherever you can
• Contribute positively to the culture of the team

Requirements

• 4 years experience in AGENCY Recruitment at a minimum, with 10 years overall work experience. This is a senior position
• A polished approach to your work
• Experience in hiring for IT / Tech related positions essential
• You need to have a good idea of the tech landscape in South Africa, various companies, their environment and tech stacks
• Experience supporting a fast-paced organization.
• Experience using an ATS (applicant tracking system) and other tools such as HubSpot, Asana and various sourcing tools would be an advantage
• Strong knowledge of various earning packages and ability to create comparisons to support your negotiations during the hiring stage
• Strong interviewing skills and ability to draw out the right information to gage suitability and fit for various positions
• Ability to connect with a wide range of people from junior through to exec level
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills
• Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal
• You need to have both the ability and confidence to engage with high-level candidates
• You will need a stable working track record

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Job Details

Join our esteemed Information Systems support team at a leading asset management firm in South Africa! We're seeking a committed IS Support Specialist to play a pivotal role in executing essential operations, configurations, and maintenance on our production systems. Your responsibilities will encompass tracking, managing, and reporting IT issues to ensure prompt resolutions and uninterrupted operations. If you're a collaborative team player with a fervent passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

This role offers the opportunity to work for one of the most esteemed investment firms, with outstanding benefits including sponsored studies and generous leave allowances.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure that automated and data distribution processes are executed in a timely manner and adhere to service level agreements for both internal and external business clients.
• Document all automated and data distribution processes, service level agreements and escalation procedures including incidents, errors, and workarounds in the register.
• Perform all relevant predefined support and maintenance requests.
• Escalate all relevant incidents and errors to applicable second- and third-line support.
• Conduct trend analysis on incidents and problems to identify problem areas.
• Proactively implement appropriate measures, tools, and systems to monitor availability of service components and data.
• Work closely with teams to ensure a continuous, stable, and efficient environment.
• Efficient and accurate execution of core job aspects.

Experience Required:

• A few years commercial application monitoring and support experience; ideally in the Investment Management and Financial Services industry, or similar environment.
• T-SQL (Essential)

And some of the following:

• SSRS
• Azure or similar cloud capability
• ActiveBatch or similar automation tool
• PowerShell or similar scripting language
• C#

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Tech Recruiter (Candidate Focused)

Basic & Commission Structure dependent on Level

Work from Home (Always)

The candidate focused recruiter is critical in identifying, sourcing and placing top technical talent for our valued clients across Cape Town. You dont need to be excited about bringing in new business and landing big clients your area of expertise lies in recruiting great talent and walking them through the recruitment process while having a fun doing so. You will be responsible for proactively sourcing, screening, interviewing, and placing qualified candidates, and partnering with the account manager throughout the full recruitment cycle. The ideal candidate will thrive in a small, but fast-paced boutique specialist agency and will work with a small team and a few external partners.

Here's who we are looking for from a personality perspective, is this you?

• A self-driven individual who cares about quality and takes pride in the work they produce
• A person who values their reputation, and conducts their work in an honest and ethical manner
• You need to actually enjoy recruitment not everyone does, we are looking for those rare gems who do
• The ideal candidate will think out the box when needed, to find solutions to recruitment challenges
• You naturally build strong relationships, you have a kind demeaner, but can be firm when required
• You are interested in, and excited by technology
• Ability to look up and learn new areas of technologies that you dont have exposure to independently and continuously build your knowledge in this area to ensure more effective matches across various stacks and areas of technology
• You have a sense of humour, along with a strong moral compass
• You are people centric, and have a genuine care for the wellbeing of others

These are the kinds of things that will keep you busy

• Research, source, identify and interview candidates for open positions allocated to you
• Continuously build and expand your network as well as your personal brand within Progressive Edge
• Build strong relationships with your candidates
• Walk candidates though the entire recruitment cycle
• Update and maintain the ATS giving care to data quality
• Both permanent and contracting positions will form part of your portfolio
• Work with the team in streamlining processes to continuously improve business processes and workflows
• Continuously attract talent by using multiple sources to advertise and recruit
• Continuously build a talent pipeline and referral network
• Negotiating offers
• Ad-hoc administrative duties
• Develop and update job descriptions
• Efficiently manage a strong candidate flow to the team
• Identify and implement new innovative ways to source and connect with talent
• Always uphold the values of the brand in all your interactions and on social media

Requirements:

• 5 years experience in recruiting as a minimum
• Experience in hiring for IT / Tech related positions essential
• Experience supporting a fast-paced organization.
• Experience using an ATS (applicant tracking system)
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills
• Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal
• You need to have both the ability and confidence to engage with high level senior candidates

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About the job Data Engineer & Analyst (Spatial Data)

An entrepreneurial, and forward-thinking company specialises in utilizing geospatial data and technologies to help clients enhance their operational efficiencies and increase profitability. They offer tailored data, insights, and innovative products across various industries, aiming to convert raw data into practical business insights. With expertise spanning over two decades in spatial and telematics domains, they serve sectors like fleet management, logistics, retail, advertising, the public sector, and more. They value partnerships highly, focusing on collaborative relationships to advance the field of geospatial intelligence.

The company has a number of products and companies under its umbrella, creating and building new products and solutions. The team would like to attract energetic, passionate individuals committed to growing with them.

You will join an R&D team and work with them to design new spatial and data related products and services with and for their clients. This is an unusual position and will take a product minded individual with varied skills who is passionate about problem solving, solutioning.

It is required that the individual have some background, studies or working experience in GIS technologies.

REQUIREMENTS

• Computer Science, Informatics, IT, Stats Degree/ Diploma
• Min 2-4 years experience
• Familiarity with Linux
• Cloud services (Azure, GCP, Huawei)
• Skills that support the environment, the team primarily works within: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL esp PostgreSQL or PostgreSQL compatible
• Platforms we use: Jupyter family of tools; PowerBI; Google Big Query
• Geospatial knowledge
• Client management skills you will be dealing with our clients
• Portfolio of data science projects that you have worked on and can describe
• Exposure to ML techniques and toolkits desirable
• Advanced Geospatial Analytics skills, especially utilising SQL
• Experience in designing data pipelines and data analytics projects.
• Working in the product space building and developing products you will need to be able to look for opportunities to simplify product & technical design as well as understand spatial-temporal analytics problems of specific domains such as retail and others

These Skills would be a major advantage:

• Text processing especially similarity matching,
• Spatial-temporal reasoning
• Curiosity and sense of experimentation
• Geospatial SQL
• PySAL familiarity - geospatial statistics techniques
• Geospatial AI

AI/ML

• Model selection
• RAG, Vector databases, generation of embeddings
• Ability to design and test appropriate ML models, apps and deployments

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About the job Software Developer

An entrepreneurial, and forward-thinking company specialises in utilizing geospatial data and technologies to help clients enhance their operational efficiencies and increase profitability. They offer tailored data, insights, and innovative products across various industries, aiming to convert raw data into practical business insights. With expertise spanning over two decades in spatial and telematics domains, they serve sectors like fleet management, logistics, retail, advertising, the public sector, and more. They value partnerships highly, focusing on collaborative relationships to advance the field of geospatial intelligence.

The company has a number of products and companies under its umbrella, creating and building new solutions. The team would like to attract energetic, passionate individuals committed to growing with them.

Job Description:

The role of Developer entails fulfilment of the following tasks and activities:

• Design and development of custom software modules and applications using SQL, Python and/or JavaScript
• Development of advanced SQL scripts to extract subsets of data from large databases
• Documenting of all code and processes, including documentation updates
• Software deployment to cloud and client servers
• Data preparation and deployment to cloud distribution servers
• Implementing and maintaining cloud-based API systems
• Handling of issues raised by clients for deployed software, data set and/or API access
• Mentoring and support of junior developers

Key Technical Skills:

A minimum of 3 to 5 years experience in the following:

• Python and Django
• JavaScript
• SQL and database management (PostgreSQL)
• Docker
• Linux server administration
• Kubernetes (advantageous)
• Agile project management (advantageous)
• Training will be provided for domain-specific skills

Key Characteristics:

• Problem solving and logical thinking
• Attention to detail when deploying software or working on customer and internal production systems
• Good technical writing skills
• Positive attitude and mannerisms when interacting with team members and clients
• Proactive attitude and willingness to learn new skills (self-motivated)
• Team player and willing to support other team members

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Role Overview

We are in search of an accomplished Senior Cloud Engineer with expertise in AWS technologies, specializing in the setup of cloud infrastructure and FortiGate firewalls. In this role, you will assume responsibility for the design, deployment, and upkeep of secure cloud infrastructure and networks. This role has a technical focus while encompassing managerial duties. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the effective operation of the company's cloud environment. This requires your substantial expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, and a dedication to adhering to security best practices.

Working Environment

While standard office hours are the norm, achieving results remains our top priority. Occasional application deployments may take place in the evening, and the time spent on these deployments will be accounted for separately from regular office hours. Our team thrives in a hybrid work setting, permitting both on-site and remote work. As such, proficiency in virtual team management and the capability to oversee deliverables in a virtual setting is pivotal for this role.

Key Qualities of the Ideal Candidate

We seek an intelligent, resolute, tech-savvy, outcome-focused professional. We require a highly knowledgeable and seasoned person to lead, advise, and implement best practices for all company systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the comprehensive security of the corporate infrastructure.
• Crafting and executing cloud-based network, infrastructure, and firewall solutions.
• Leading and managing the cloud team along with external consultants.
• Establishing robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Configuring, administering, and troubleshooting firewalls to ensure optimum network security and performance.
• Collaborating with multifunctional teams, encompassing network engineers, system administrators, and developers, for the setup and maintenance of networks and security measures.
• Executing security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities and recommend remediation solutions.
• Developing and sustaining documentation, including network diagrams, configuration guides, and standard operating procedures related to networks and security.
• Staying updated with the latest AWS security advancements, FortiGate firewall technologies, and industry trends to provide recommendations for enhancing network security and performance.
• Participating in incident response activities and conducting root cause analyses for security-related incidents.
• Offering technical guidance and mentoring to junior team members regarding network and security configurations and best practices.

Requirements:

• Possessing a bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• Holding relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified Security Specialty or Fortinet NSE, would be advantageous.
• Demonstrating a track record in cloud network and security, particularly in AWS environments.
• Possessing in-depth knowledge of AWS services and features, including VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS WAF, Route53, secrets manager, and AWS Security Hub.
• Exhibiting strong expertise in configuring and managing FortiGate firewalls, covering FortiOS, firewall policies, VPN configurations, and advanced threat protection features.
• Having a solid understanding of network protocols, security standards (e.g., SSL/TLS, IPsec), and networking principles (e.g., routing, subnetting, load balancing).
• Demonstrating experience with network security tools, including intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), web application firewalls (WAF), and vulnerability scanners.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages like Python, PowerShell, or Bash to streamline security operations.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and the capability to analyze complex network security issues.
• Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and conveying technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple priorities concurrently.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms and networks such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools, including infrastructure as code (IaC) through Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Awareness of various security technologies and solutions, such as intrusion prevention systems (IPS), data loss prevention (DLP), and SIEM platforms.
• Experience with network monitoring and logging solutions, such as AWS CloudWatch, Elastic Stack, Splunk, etc.
• A background in banking security would be highly advantageous.
• Experience in configuring network peering would also be beneficial.