Job Openings at Altron Bytes Systems Integration

Job Description
Job Function:

• This requirement will be across multiple projects within the organisation. The key projects included in the responsibility are Digital Lifestyle projects. The Scrum Master will be responsible for managing projects on behalf of Bytes client.

Responsibilities

• Taking responsibility for all aspects of the delivery of projects.
• Coordinates all project activities
• Coordinates Agile implementation across all projects
• Interfacing with Customer regarding product releases to ensure delivery of functionality as committed to Customer
• Motivate and inspire team members and maximize the team’s potential
• Encourage self-organization within the team and empower team members to make important decisions, estimate work done and improve their collaboration on the project
• Monitor project progress, provide timely feedback, and drive a culture of agility and learning
• Guide the team in implementing Agile methodology rules to deliver rapid and reliable business products Support Product Owners to find methods to effectively manage the product backlog
• Help communicate the Product Owner’s wish list to the project team
• Organize scrum events as necessary
• Remove impediments so the team can focus on the work at hand and follow scrum practices
• Managing the requirement gathering from internal and external customers.
• Following the change Management Process and ensuring that it is compiled to by all members of the team.
• Preparing and planning projects, and driving those plans through to a successful conclusion.
• Managing and tracking effort and progress and highlighting ways to keep the project on track in spite of issues – “can do” attitude is essential.
• Delivering the resultant projects on time and to budget, managing expectations and handling issues as required.
• Mitigating risks and addressing issues to ensure timely completion of project milestones.
• Ability to clearly monitor and report to BSI senior management and Customers on project progress with respect to effort, cost and duration and key milestones.
• Manage risks and issues and be able to concisely present status at any time to management.
• Represent BSI stakeholders at customer meetings and presentations.
• Mentoring and review of engineers leveraging individual skills to maximise effectiveness.
• Managing teams of varying sizes.
• Maintaining group dynamic to facilitate individuals working as a team.
• Providing clear leadership to the team and making informed decisions on various options presented. Highlight and ensure alignment of all aspects of the client programme including projects, enhancements, resources and stakeholders, in terms of objectives, scope, status and progress. Support demand management through understanding internal and external targets and milestones and monitor these through agreed processes while highlighting and communicating those with a potential for non- or late delivery.
• Provide input to demand management prioritisation incorporating both programme elements (e.g. projects, enhancements) and resourcing.
• Create, maintain, monitor and communicate the Programme Roadmap in an agreed format for executive communication as required. All changes to the scope and execution of the roadmap will be appropriately controlled.
• Monitor the Programme delivery according to the defined and agreed Vodacom SDLC/methodology. This includes ensuring documentation is maintained in the agreed form within the correct defined central repository structures.
• Maintain and monitor the Communication Plan as support for Programme Communication. This includes stakeholder, information distribution lists and planned communication, and ensures that communication expectations are known and followed (e.g. monthly reporting, executive updates). Follow defined risk and issue escalation processes to appropriate stakeholders as part of communication and stakeholder management

Job Requirements

Education Required:

• Agile Certification

Experience Required

• 5+ years’ experience in a Scrum Master role within IT development environment.
• Experience and certification in one of the following Project Management Methodologies: Agile Methodologies (SCRUM, SAFe)
• Digital projects within a telco

Essential Competencies

• Be strong on stakeholder management – especially within a big corporate
• Can lead projects with the combination of constant innovation.
• Strong leadership and vision.
• Formal and informal communication
• Customer Interaction.
• Project development lifecycle. Design and development methodologies.
• Strong understanding of the development process.
• Communication, interpersonal skills, enquiring.
• Always seeks win /win situations - analytical, creative, takes the initiative.
• Results oriented – with ability to distinguish between “needs” and “wants”
• Ability to comprehend technical issues
• Enjoys planning and executing
• Demonstrate vision of end goal and ability to communicate same to team.
• High energy and commitment – “does what it takes” attitude
• Ability to handle pressure well

Advantageous Competencies

• Implementation of projects in the telecommunications industry
• Implementation of medium to large scale software development projects
• Having worked as a client facing Scrum Master, managing delivery from 3rd party vendors
• Intimate knowledge of tools such as Jira & Confluence
• Having solid experience in transformation projects (implementing Agile)

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Job Description
Job Function:
Developer

• JSE-listed Altron, founded in 1965 has a direct presence in South Africa, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, employing more than 8 500 employees globally.
• Altron combines technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide end-to-end holistic technology solutions.Altron Bytes Systems Integration, a division of Altron (Pty) Ltd, is an end-to-end ICT service provider of consulting, implementation and outsourcing services, that partners to help clients in two main ways: Driving value and optimizing client investment in current and legacy systems, applications and infrastructure.Most organizations are planning or have embarked on a digital transformation journey. This journey is certainly more than deploying technology – it is a shift in the entire business model and talks to the ‘pace of change’ that an organisation must go through, driven by the rapid adoption of technology. Altron Bytes Systems Integration has a clear go-to-market strategy in key industries covering: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Public Sector, Retail, Mining & Manufacturing, Travel & Transport, Energy & Utilities.We are currently expanding a project team that is responsible for designing, building and operating a large CRM system for one of the large telecommunications companies within South Africa and Africa. This successful will work in our development teams with integration and implementation of new services across a multitude of systems within the telco landscape.

Job Function

• We are looking for highly skilled full stack developers with experience working in a team and building applications with a JAVA backend and a HTML5 based frontend. Responsible for analyzing user requirements and business objectives, determining application features and functionality as well as recommending and implementing changes to existing Java-based applications and frontends, among other duties. Compile detailed technical documentation and user assistance material, requiring excellent written communication.

Responsibilities

• Analysis and development of new features and products in a manner that is functional, understandable, maintainable and testable
• Support, problem solving and analysis for helpdesk & production
• Automated testing of features developed or where necessary deliver test harnesses that enable the testing of the system
• Actively participate in team ceremonies such as peer reviews, sprint planning, backlog grooming, etc.

Job Requirements

Education Required:

• N. Diploma in Information Technology
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering

Experience Required

• 2+ years’ JAVA development experience

Essential Competencies

• Proven experience in the ability to lead a team
• Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• OO Analysis, Design and Programming Techniques
• Java (JSE) 7 and above
• Web services (SOAP, REST)
• React Web Framework

Advantageous Competencies

• Database exposure (Oracle PLSQL, MS SQLServer, MySQL)
• Experience in Spring (Cloud, Boot, etc.)
• Experience in telecommunications industry
• An understanding of SOA, Microservices and Design Patterns
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks (JaCoCo, JUnit) and TDD
• XAML / XML Design Patterns
• Deployment Tools – Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
• Cloud exposure (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Container deployment, scaling, management, etc. (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Agile Methodologies

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Job Function
Job Description:

• Ability to conduct information security risk assessments
• Ability to create and execute security monitoring tool sets such as DLP, SIEM and Web Gateway, Cyber Protection.
• Exposure to cyber security or SOC monitoring.
• Strong technical ability.
• Stakeholder Management
• Ability to support an information security strategy that supports business needs
• Understanding of the NIST Framework
• Business Acumen
• Interpersonal skills
• Multi task and quality focused.
• Good understanding of risk and compliance
• Understanding of Systems Integration business process
• Project Management skills
• Network, firewall and Microsoft skills

Responsibilities
Job Requirements:

• Focus on Security related to Infrastructure provided by Altron BSI and Telecommunications providers. Work towards enhancing the security of infrastructure systems at our outsourced customer.
• Reduce and manage and security related risks.
• Ensure relevant Security measures are implemented and maintained on key systems deployed at our outsourced customer. These include firewalls, VPNs, switches, wireless devices, Servers etc.
• Keep up to date on all security related issues.
• Use the Cybersecurity Assessment Report as a guideline to address best practices mitigation plan.
• Produce and present relevant security reports to the customer. Agree actions and timelines.
• Action all findings (critical events / incidents) from relevant NOC / SOC / Firewall reports. This will include investigating issues identified and working with the team to resolve them.
• Work with the Altron BSI team and ensure relevant security actions / investigations are executed in conjunction with the team. Security is everyone’s problem and is still the responsibility of every engineer at Altron BSI.
• Assist our outsourced customer to implement infrastructure related portions of their security policy (provided the technology required is available).
• Identify and assist with Security related projects and initiatives.
• Work with our outsourced customer’s auditors on security related audit findings.
• Document any relevant security related standards and processes to be implemented & maintained across all sites.
• Identify any security risks and actions required to mitigate them.
• Conduct internal security audits and regularly review any changes that may affect security. This may require tools or software. Servers, networks etc.
• Review relevant security LOGS (on an exception basis) and investigate and action relevant ones. (servers, firewalls etc.)
• Monitor access to our outsourced customer’s network from any 3rd parties and investigate and action any suspicious activity. Examples are VPN access. This may require tools or software.
• Monitor Data leaving our outsourced customer and identify potential threats. This will require tools or software.
• Help the KZN Account Management team with Cybersecurity Meetings
• Represent the Altron BSI Enterprise Security Solutions Division
• Promote Altron BSI Enterprise Security Solutions offerings throughout KZN
• Help with Pre-sales / Consulting activities as required by account managers

Education Required

• Qualifications Requirements Relevant Information Technology Qualification

Experience Required

• A minimum of two (2) years relevant work experience
• Experience using vulnerability management tools, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and responding to network/computer intrusions and supporting inquiries.
• Knowledge of information systems security principles and methods, the requirements for certification and accreditation of systems testing and evaluation, and performance management methods.
• Knowledge of test and assessment methods to evaluate security authentication technologies. Knowledge of standards like PCI, SOC2, ISO 27001.
• Expansive general IT knowledge.

Essential Competencies

• Maintain Good Customer Feedback w.r.t Cybersecurity
• Data Privacy laws
• Governance documentation
• Security planning and future view
• Guide and assist KZN region in security related task such as consulting/pre-sales
• Monthly Customer health checks and Reports
• RFPs
• Audits

Advantageous Competencies

• Industry recognized security certifications or various cybersecurity vendor product certifications
• Three (3+) years’ relevant work experience in a manufacturing company or as a security consultant / pre-sales engineer

Additional Requirements

You’re someone who?

• Has a PASSION for Security?
• Is able to work independently and collaborate with the team whenever is necessary
• Has an above and beyond attitude
• Values constructive feedback
• Works well in a team
• Is proactive and service driven
• Is Honest and reliable
• Is able to remain flexible, function under pressure and maintain a positive attitude
• Is a highly energetic creative and lateral thinker
• Self-motivated & well presented
• Demonstrate sound work ethics
• Amazing attention to detail
• Quick learner
• Effective listening and verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to communicate remotely with the head office team members
• Ability to multi-task and stay calm under pressure
• Excellent time management ability
• Highly organized, logical and structured individual

Other

• Due to the Broad nature of the role and the prominence of cybersecurity defence, scheduled after-hours and weekend work might be required.

Please note that the appointment will be made from the designated group, in line with the Employment Equity Act, as well as the Company’s Employment Equity Plan.

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Job Description

Job Function: Senior Analyst Programmer / Team LeadJSE-listed Altron, founded in 1965 has a direct presence in South Africa, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, employing more than 8 500 employees globally.

• Altron combines technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide end-to-end holistic technology solutions.Altron Bytes Systems Integration, a division of Altron (Pty) Ltd, is an end-to-end ICT service provider of consulting, implementation and outsourcing services, that partners to help clients in two main ways: Driving value and optimizing client investment in current and legacy systems, applications and infrastructure.Most organizations are planning or have embarked on a digital transformation journey. This journey is certainly more than deploying technology – it is a shift in the entire business model and talks to the ‘pace of change’ that an organisation must go through, driven by the rapid adoption of technology. Altron Bytes Systems Integration has a clear go-to-market strategy in key industries covering: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Public Sector, Retail, Mining & Manufacturing, Travel & Transport, Energy & Utilities.
• We are currently expanding a project team that is responsible for designing, building and operating a large CRM system for one of the large telecommunications companies within South Africa and Africa. This successful candidate in this role will lead one of our new development teams with integration and implementation of new services across a multitude of systems within the telco landscape.

Job Function

• We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer with experience in leading a team and building back end applications in Java. Responsible for analyzing user requirements and business objectives, determining application features and functionality as well as recommending and implementing changes to existing Java-based applications, among other duties. Compile detailed technical documentation and user assistance material, requiring excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Analysis and development of new features and products in a manner that is functional, understandable, maintainable and testable
• Act as a mentor and leader to the team members on their assigned project tasks
• Support, problem solving and analysis for helpdesk & production
• Automated testing of features developed or where necessary deliver test harnesses that enable the testing of the system
• Gain an understanding of our product, our customers' data, and the industry to assist with solution design and delivery

Job Requirements

Education Required:

• BTech in Information Technology; or
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering

Experience Required

• 8+ years’ JAVA development experience
• 2+ years’ team lead responsibility

Essential Competencies

• Proven experience in the ability to lead a team
• Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• OO Analysis, Design and Programming Techniques
• Java (JSE) 7 and above
• Web services (SOAP, REST)

Advantageous Competencies

• Database exposure (Oracle PLSQL, MS SQLServer, MySQL)
• Experience in Spring (Cloud, Boot, etc.)
• Experience in telecommunications industry
• An understanding of SOA, Microservices and Design Patterns
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks (JaCoCo, JUnit) and TDD
• XAML / XML Design Patterns
• Deployment Tools – Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
• Cloud exposure (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Container deployment, scaling, management, etc. (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Agile Methodologies