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  • Posted: May 14, 2026
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Optimal Growth Technologies provides organizations of all sizes with the best, most trustworthy solutions. In the ever-evolving technology market, we believe that companies need reliable allies who can guide them through the challenges that accompany technological growth

     

    DevSecOps Manager

    Role Summary

    • This senior role drives secure, automated, and compliant cloud-native delivery while managing monitoring/alerting, penetration testing programs, vulnerability management, and broader cybersecurity initiatives.
    • You will lead a team of DevSecOps engineers, foster a security by design culture, and enable the business to innovate rapidly in a regulated South African and global context

    Key Responsibilities

    DevOps

    • Provision and manage cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
    • Implement containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) for consistent environments.
    • Automate repetitive tasks, reduce toil, and improve developer experience through self service tools
    • Collaborate with software developers, QA, and security teams to embed DevOps practices (shift-left security, automated testing).
    • Perform root-cause analysis on production issues, implement fixes, and drive continuous improvement.
    • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

    Leadership & Team Management

    • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of DevOps, SRE, and security engineers.
    • Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of automation and shared ownership
    • Champion DevSecOps practices and culture across Development, Operations, Security, and Compliance teams.
    • Define and track KPIs: vulnerability remediation time, security gate pass rate, MTTR, deployment frequency, and alert reduction.

    AWS Cloud Environment Management & Security

    • Design, implement, and govern secure AWS architectures (multi-account landing zones via Control Tower, VPCs, EKS, Lambda, RDS, etc.) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK).
    • Enforce least-privilege IAM, encryption (KMS), secrets management, network security, and data sovereignty for POPIA compliance.
    • Leverage AWS-native services: Amazon Inspector, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, IAM Access Analyzer, and AWS Security Agent for automated security.
    • Build and Secure CI/CD Pipelines & Automation
    • Build and evolve secure CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab), optimizing workflows to automate testing, builds, and deployments with security gates (SAST,
    • DAST, SCA, IaC, secret, and container scanning)

    Monitoring, Alerting & Observability

    • Architect comprehensive monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch, GuardDuty, X-Ray, EventBridge, and SIEM integrations.
    • Design intelligent alerting with automated routing, escalation, noise reduction, and rapid incident response processes (critical for Cybercrimes Act obligations).
    • Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting to maintain high availability and performance.
    • Ensure 24/7 visibility into security posture, performance, and compliance.

    Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing & Risk Management

    • Lead and coordinate regular penetration testing
    • Oversee vulnerability management: scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and exception processes.
    • Conduct threat modelling, runtime protection, supply-chain security, zero-trust implementation, and incident response.
    • Ensure appropriate, reasonable technical and organisational measures for POPIA Condition 7 (Security Safeguards), including encryption, access controls, logging, and regular testing.

    Compliance, Governance & Continuous Improvement

    • Support audits and evidence collection
    • Collaborate on release management with security go/no-go decisions.
    • Stay current with AWS security updates, emerging threats, and South African regulatory changes.
    • Drive maturity of DevSecOps practices and conduct regular AWS Well-Architected
    • Framework reviews (Security Pillar).

    Qualifications & Experience

    • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering

    Experience

    • 8–10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Cybersecurity.
    • 3–5+ years in technical leadership or management roles.
    • Strong hands-on AWS experience
    • Proven track record in regulated environments with POPIA/GDPR compliance.

    Certifications

    • AWS Certified Security – Specialty or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
    • CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or CISA.

    Essential Skills & Competencies

    Technical:

    • Deep expertise in AWS.
    • Proficiency with security tools (Inspector, GuardDuty, SAST/DAST like SonarQube, SIEM).
    • Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
    • Strong experience with Linux, networking, and Git.
    • Hands-on expertise with CI/CD, IaC, Docker/Kubernetes, and at least one major
    • cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP certifications preferred).
    • Penetration testing methodologies and vulnerability management.
    • Knowledge of monitoring, observability, and infrastructure security.

    Leadership & Soft Skills:

    • Excellent stakeholder communication (technical to executive level).
    • Ability to drive cultural change in hybrid/fast-paced environments.
    • Strong problem-solving, metrics-driven approach, and collaboration skills.

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    IT Service Manager

    Job Summary

    • The IT Service Manager is a key leadership role responsible for the end-to-end planning, delivery, performance, and continual improvement of IT services across the organisation.
    • This position ensures that IT services are reliable, efficient, secure, and fully aligned with business objectives and user needs. 
    • Working closely with technical teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors, the IT Service Manager drives operational excellence, manages service levels (SLAs/OLAs), oversees incident/problem/change processes, and fosters a customer-centric IT culture.
    • The role has a strong emphasis on service strategy, operations, and continuous improvement.
    • This is a strategic and hands-on position that bridges technology and business,ensuring high availability, minimal downtime, and optimal value from IT investments.

    Key Responsibilities

    Service Strategy & Delivery:

    • Develop, implement, and maintain IT service strategies, policies, and processes.
    • Design and improve services to meet evolving business requirements while aligning with organisational goals.

    Incident, Problem & Change Management:

    • Oversee the full lifecycle of incident, problem, request, and change management.
    • Ensure timely resolution of issues, root cause analysis, and prevention of recurring problems to minimise business impact.

    Service Level Management:

    • Define, negotiate, monitor, and report on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Operational Level Agreements (OLAs).
    • Track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as uptime, Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR), customer satisfaction (CSAT), and service availability.

    Team Leadership & Development:

    • Lead, mentor, and develop IT support teams (including service desk, operations, and technical specialists).
    • Manage staffing, training, performance, and resource allocation to maintain a high-performing, customer-focused team.

    Budget & Resource Management:

    • Manage IT service budgets, vendor contracts, and procurement.
    • Optimise costs while ensuring quality service delivery and compliance with financial controls. -

    Vendor & Stakeholder Management:

    • Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, business units, and external service providers.
    • Act as the primary point of escalation and ensure vendors meet contractual obligations.

    Continuous Service Improvement :

    • Identify opportunities for process optimisation, automation, and innovation.
    • Implement improvements using ITIL practices to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and elevate service quality.

    Compliance, Security & Risk:

    • Ensure all IT services comply with relevant regulations (e.g., POPIA in South Africa), security standards, and organisational policies.
    • Oversee data protection, risk management, and audit readiness.

    Service Catalogue & Knowledge Management:

    • Maintain an up-to-date service catalogue, knowledge base, and configuration management database (CMDB) to support efficient operations.

    Reporting & Communication:

    • Produce regular performance reports and dashboards for senior management.
    • Communicate effectively with all levels of the organisation on IT service matters, changes, and improvements.

    Monitoring and Alerting:

    • Design, implement, and continuously improve proactive monitoring and alerting systems across the entire IT environment.

    This includes:

    • Deploying and managing enterprise monitoring tools for infrastructure, networks, servers, cloud services, applications, and end-user experience.
    • Establishing real-time alerting mechanisms (email, SMS, Teams/Slack, automated tickets) with appropriate thresholds and escalation paths.
    • Ensuring 24/7 monitoring coverage and rapid detection of performance degradation, outages, or anomalies.
    • Integrating monitoring systems with the ITSM platform for automatic incident creation.
    • Conducting regular reviews of monitoring effectiveness, reducing false positives, and driving proactive issue resolution.
    • Supporting capacity planning, trend analysis, and performance reporting through monitoring data.

    Security and Vulnerability Management:

    • Own and drive the organisation's IT security posture within the service management framework.

    This includes:

    • Leading vulnerability scanning, assessment, prioritisation, and remediation activities.
    • Overseeing patch management processes for servers, endpoints, applications, and network devices.
    • Ensuring timely mitigation of identified vulnerabilities and security risks.
    • Coordinating with cybersecurity teams on threat intelligence, penetration testing, and security incident response.
    • Embedding security controls into service design, transition, and operation(Security by Design)
    • Monitoring and reporting on security compliance, vulnerability trends, and risk exposure to senior leadership.

    Qualifications & Experience

    Education:

    • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or a related field.

    Experience:

    • Minimum 5–7 years of progressive experience in IT operations or service management, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial capacity.
    • Experience in a multi-vendor or enterprise environment is highly advantageous.
    • Local Context (South Africa): Familiarity with South African regulatory requirements e.g., POPIA, cybersecurity frameworks) and experience working in dynamic industries such as finance, telecoms sector is a plus.

    Essential Skills & Competencies

    Leadership & People Management: Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high

    performing teams.

    Technical Knowledge:

    • Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, networks, cloud services, cybersecurity, and common ITSM tools (e.g., Jira, Remedy).

    Project Management:

    • Familiarity with project management principles (e.g., Agile, Prince2).

    Preferred Certifications

    • ITIL 4 Foundation (or higher – e.g., ITIL 4 Managing Professional or Strategic Leader)
    • Project Management Professional (PMP), CAPM, or PRINCE2.
    • Certifications in security or risk (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CRISC).
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    Legal Specialist (South Africa)- JHB

    About the Role

    • We are looking for a commercially minded and detail-oriented Legal Consultant to support the business across a broad range of legal, contractual, and compliance matters.
    • The successful candidate will play a key role in providing practical legal guidance, managing commercial agreements, mitigating legal risk, and supporting business operations through effective contract lifecycle management.
    • This role requires a proactive professional who can balance legal risk with commercial objectives while working closely with internal stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and leadership teams.

    Key Responsibilities

    General Legal Advisory

    • Provide day-to-day legal guidance and support to business units and management.
    • Advise on commercial, operational, and regulatory matters impacting the business.
    • Review and interpret legislation, regulations, and legal developments relevant to the company's operations.
    • Assist with legal risk identification, mitigation strategies, and governance initiatives.
    • Support dispute resolution processes and liaise with external legal counsel where required.
    • Provide guidance on corporate governance, compliance, and internal policy matters.
    • Ensure legal and commercial alignment across business initiatives and engagements.
    • Support employment-related legal matters in collaboration with HR and management teams.

    Contract Management

    Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide range of commercial agreements, including:

    • Master Service Agreements (MSAs)
    • Statements of Work (SOWs)
    • Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
    • Supplier and Vendor Agreements
    • Independent Contractor Agreements
    • Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
    • Client Services Agreements
    • Partnership and Consulting Agreements
    • Manage the full contract lifecycle from drafting through execution, renewals, amendments, and termination.
    • Ensure contracts align with company risk, legal, financial, and operational requirements.
    • Maintain contract repositories and ensure accurate record keeping and version control.
    • Track contractual obligations, renewal dates, deliverables, and compliance requirements.
    • Support negotiations with clients, vendors, and strategic partners.
    • Identify contractual risks and recommend commercially practical solutions.
    • Drive continuous improvement of contract management processes, templates, and governance standards.

    Requirements

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor's Degree in Law (LLB) or equivalent legal qualification.
    • Admitted Attorney advantageous but not essential depending on experience.

    Experience

    • Minimum 5+ years' experience in legal advisory and contract management roles.
    • Experience within corporate, technology, consulting, telecommunications, or professional services environments advantageous.
    • Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
    • Exposure to compliance, governance, and risk management frameworks.
    • Experience supporting cross-functional business teams and senior stakeholders.

    Skills & Competencies

    • Strong commercial and legal acumen.
    • Excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills.
    • Ability to provide practical, business-focused legal advice.
    • Strong attention to detail and analytical capability.
    • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
    • Ability to manage multiple matters and deadlines simultaneously.
    • Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
    • High level of professionalism, integrity, and confidentiality.
    • Strong organisational and documentation management skills.

    Key Performance Areas

    • Timely turnaround of legal reviews and advisory requests.
    • Contract accuracy, compliance, and risk mitigation.
    • Effective management of contract lifecycle and renewals.
    • Reduction of legal and commercial exposure.
    • Stakeholder satisfaction and support effectiveness.
    • Continuous improvement of legal and contract governance processes.

    Preferred Attributes

    • Commercially pragmatic and solutions-driven mindset.
    • Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
    • Strong interpersonal and relationship management capability.
    • Comfortable working across multiple business functions and leadership levels.
    • Adaptable and proactive approach to legal and operational challenges.

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    Legal Specialist (South Africa)- CPT

    About the Role

    • We are looking for a commercially minded and detail-oriented Legal Consultant to support the business across a broad range of legal, contractual, and compliance matters.
    • The successful candidate will play a key role in providing practical legal guidance, managing commercial agreements, mitigating legal risk, and supporting business operations through effective contract lifecycle management.
    • This role requires a proactive professional who can balance legal risk with commercial objectives while working closely with internal stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and leadership teams.

    Key Responsibilities

    General Legal Advisory

    • Provide day-to-day legal guidance and support to business units and management.
    • Advise on commercial, operational, and regulatory matters impacting the business.
    • Review and interpret legislation, regulations, and legal developments relevant to the company's operations.
    • Assist with legal risk identification, mitigation strategies, and governance initiatives.
    • Support dispute resolution processes and liaise with external legal counsel where required.
    • Provide guidance on corporate governance, compliance, and internal policy matters.
    • Ensure legal and commercial alignment across business initiatives and engagements.
    • Support employment-related legal matters in collaboration with HR and management teams.

    Contract Management

    Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide range of commercial agreements, including:

    • Master Service Agreements (MSAs)
    • Statements of Work (SOWs)
    • Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
    • Supplier and Vendor Agreements
    • Independent Contractor Agreements
    • Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
    • Client Services Agreements
    • Partnership and Consulting Agreements
    • Manage the full contract lifecycle from drafting through execution, renewals, amendments, and termination.
    • Ensure contracts align with company risk, legal, financial, and operational requirements.
    • Maintain contract repositories and ensure accurate record keeping and version control.
    • Track contractual obligations, renewal dates, deliverables, and compliance requirements.
    • Support negotiations with clients, vendors, and strategic partners.
    • Identify contractual risks and recommend commercially practical solutions.
    • Drive continuous improvement of contract management processes, templates, and governance standards.

    Requirements

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor's Degree in Law (LLB) or equivalent legal qualification.
    • Admitted Attorney advantageous but not essential depending on experience.

    Experience

    • Minimum 5+ years' experience in legal advisory and contract management roles.
    • Experience within corporate, technology, consulting, telecommunications, or professional services environments advantageous.
    • Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
    • Exposure to compliance, governance, and risk management frameworks.
    • Experience supporting cross-functional business teams and senior stakeholders.

    Skills & Competencies

    • Strong commercial and legal acumen.
    • Excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills.
    • Ability to provide practical, business-focused legal advice.
    • Strong attention to detail and analytical capability.
    • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
    • Ability to manage multiple matters and deadlines simultaneously.
    • Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
    • High level of professionalism, integrity, and confidentiality.
    • Strong organisational and documentation management skills.

    Key Performance Areas

    • Timely turnaround of legal reviews and advisory requests.
    • Contract accuracy, compliance, and risk mitigation.
    • Effective management of contract lifecycle and renewals.
    • Reduction of legal and commercial exposure.
    • Stakeholder satisfaction and support effectiveness.
    • Continuous improvement of legal and contract governance processes.

    Preferred Attributes

    • Commercially pragmatic and solutions-driven mindset.
    • Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
    • Strong interpersonal and relationship management capability.
    • Comfortable working across multiple business functions and leadership levels.
    • Adaptable and proactive approach to legal and operational challenges.

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