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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The Integration DevOps Engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of service integration processes and tools to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery, maximizing the speed and quality of delivery across teams.  
• The role is responsible for automating build, release, deployment, and configuration activities for the Middleware Integration space. 
• This role will be working closely with DevOps Management, QA, and Systems Engineers to understand the solution requirements to support and operate accordingly.
• This role must be flexible to constant business and technology change, with the ability to interact, engineer, and communicate collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• The role is responsible for building, enforcing and optimising the CICD pipeline rules and governance to increase quality and faster time to market.
• The role is responsible for KPI management via building platforms that supports and ensures mandates of uptime, latency, resilience and security are met and are consistently above mandated levels.
• The role trend analysis identifying recurring issues and root causes while implementing preventative measures or mechanisms to identify issues faster.
• The role is responsible for creating processes and support mechanisms for API Consumers and Tenants of the platform further improving time to market.
• The role has security management as a key deliverable, which includes and not limited to vulnerability management, obsolescence, auditing, risk management and access control. 
• This role will be required to explore and implement new initiatives, promoting automation, AI and optimising TCO.

Your responsibilities will include:

• The Integration DevOps Engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of processes and tools to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery, maximizing the speed and quality of delivery across teams.
• This role is responsible for working closely with software, QA, and systems engineers to understand requirements and prototype, architect, implement, operate and update DevOps solutions accordingly.
• CSI in current platform initiatives improving latency, resilience and preventing recurring outages via Self-Healing platform mechanisms.
• Security and Audit Management ensuring Patching, Obsolescence, Vulnerability and Auditing requirements are met.

The Ideal Candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Programming, or similar related field is essential
• 5+ years’ experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying DevOps toolchains to support continuous integration and continuous delivery, using a variety of technologies and environments 
• 5+ years’ experience working with at least two or more programming languages (e.g., PHP, Java), virtualization (e.g., VMWare), database technologies (e.g., MySQL), and release and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef)
• 5+ years’ experience working Oracle Middleware Technologies (OSB, SOA, BPM, BAM, WebLogic) & Oracle Content Management (WCC)
• 5+ years experience and knowledge of the telecommunications industry is essential.
• Operational experience in supporting and maintaining large scale enterprise Middleware applications.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Automated software and infrastructure deployment and configuration management
• Public and private cloud IaaS and PaaS deployment models and technologies, e.g., Openstack, AWS, Azure, Oracle
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• Production-readiness assessment of modules and supporting systems
• Analytics and data-driven frameworks to monitor and optimize development and operations processes
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements, and develop solutions
• Strong creativity, problem solving skills and ability to apply original thinking to produce new ideas and innovative solutions
• Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that enables the coordination of activities between technical teams and the creation of new relationships with new acquaintances quickly and confidently
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to apply work with and train a wide variety of roles to change ways of working and establish new processes
• Highly effective planning and prioritisation skills
• Willingness to track, assess, and incorporate practice and technology developments into day-to-day working
• Ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge and learn new skills
• Good understanding of the portfolio, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The incumbent will be responsible for having a huge impact on everything from the functionality we deliver for our customers, to the design and architecture of our systems, to the algorithms, code we employ and mapping business requirements into system functionality. Moreover, understand the business requirements, to create technology solutions and designs that ensures quality data and systems in support of the business. Solutions must align to IT best practices and support the availability expectations of the portfolio. Documentation standards must be maintained and enhanced as required.

Your responsibilities will include:

Technical Analysis 

• Analyse requirements in terms of feasibility, impact and cost with a focus on re-use of an approach or solution
• Contribute to lower costs by performing in-depth analysis of solutions
• Evaluate proposed solutions from vendors prior to development and ensure that the most feasible solution that meets the business requirements is selected
• Ensure the technical solution meets business requirements by participating in design workshops and mapping solution back to the requirements
• Show an understanding of the system and influence the system rules, data flow and relationship between system entities
• Identify and establish performance metrics and measurements

System Analysis

• Pre-empt issues and action mitigation plans to avert these
• Understanding the project and business’ requirements and evaluating all the options to identify potential solutions to support the requirements based on facts;
• Interaction with stakeholders conducting requirements analysis and providing input on system analysis and solution designs;
• Produce and/or modify system-, technical- and/or design specifications;
• Review solution development deliverables throughout the system lifecycle for compliance to architecture principles and standards;
• Ensure that Vodacom’s policies and procedures are fully understood and aligned to technology implementations

Governance

• Ensure compliance to related governance and security requirements

The Ideal Candidate for this role will have:

• Matric/ Grade 12 is essential.
• A 3-year IT or IS degree or diploma or similar related field is essential.
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years of systems/business analysis experience with at least 3 years technical roles.
• Relevant cloud certification at the professional or associate level is desirable.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Agile and lean SDLC models
• Excellent stakeholder communication 
• Backlog item estimation
• Architectural element testing e.g., APIs
• Software incident and problem management 

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The Integration DevOps Engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of service integration processes and tools to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery, maximizing the speed and quality of delivery across teams.  
• The role is responsible for automating build, release, deployment, and configuration activities for the Middleware Integration space. 
• This role will be working closely with DevOps Management, QA, and Systems Engineers to understand the solution requirements to support and operate accordingly.
• This role must be flexible to constant business and technology change, with the ability to interact, engineer, and communicate collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• The role is responsible for building, enforcing and optimising the CICD pipeline rules and governance to increase quality and faster time to market.
• The role is responsible for KPI management via building platforms that supports and ensures mandates of uptime, latency, resilience and security are met and are consistently above mandated levels.
• The role trend analysis identifying recurring issues and root causes while implementing preventative measures or mechanisms to identify issues faster.
• The role is responsible for creating processes and support mechanisms for API Consumers and Tenants of the platform further improving time to market.
• The role has security management as a key deliverable, which includes and not limited to vulnerability management, obsolescence, auditing, risk management and access control. 
• This role will be required to explore and implement new initiatives, promoting automation, AI and optimising TCO.

Your responsibilities will include:

• The Integration DevOps Engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of processes and tools to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery, maximizing the speed and quality of delivery across teams.
• This role is responsible for working closely with software, QA, and systems engineers to understand requirements and prototype, architect, implement, operate and update DevOps solutions accordingly.
• CSI in current platform initiatives improving latency, resilience and preventing recurring outages via Self-Healing platform mechanisms.
• Security and Audit Management ensuring Patching, Obsolescence, Vulnerability and Auditing requirements are met.

The Ideal Candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Programming, or similar related field is essential
• 5+ years’ experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying DevOps toolchains to support continuous integration and continuous delivery, using a variety of technologies and environments 
• 5+ years’ experience working with at least two or more programming languages (e.g., PHP, Java), virtualization (e.g., VMWare), database technologies (e.g., MySQL), and release and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef)
• 5+ years’ experience working Oracle Middleware Technologies (OSB, SOA, BPM, BAM, WebLogic) & Oracle Content Management (WCC)
• 5+ years experience and knowledge of the telecommunications industry is essential.
• Operational experience in supporting and maintaining large scale enterprise Middleware applications.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Automated software and infrastructure deployment and configuration management
• Public and private cloud IaaS and PaaS deployment models and technologies, e.g., Openstack, AWS, Azure, Oracle
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• Production-readiness assessment of modules and supporting systems
• Analytics and data-driven frameworks to monitor and optimize development and operations processes
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements, and develop solutions
• Strong creativity, problem solving skills and ability to apply original thinking to produce new ideas and innovative solutions
• Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that enables the coordination of activities between technical teams and the creation of new relationships with new acquaintances quickly and confidently
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to apply work with and train a wide variety of roles to change ways of working and establish new processes
• Highly effective planning and prioritisation skills
• Willingness to track, assess, and incorporate practice and technology developments into day-to-day working
• Ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge and learn new skills
• Good understanding of the portfolio, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• Development of strategic priorities and business development opportunities for Vodacom Group.

Your responsibilities will include:

Evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities    

• Responsible for the assessment of potential mergers and acquisitions, including, performing quantitative and qualitative analysis

Develop M&A proposals    

• Assist with the preparation of M&A proposals for board/exco review and decision
• Liaise with Vodacom Group M&A team, with internal technical specialists (legal, tax, etc.) and operating company business line leaders, as necessary.
• Agree proposals to be escalated with ME: M&A 
• Facilitate discussions and workshops with the various OpCo leaders to develop strategic M&A plans.

Evaluate disinvestments    

• Evaluate selected disinvestment proposals based on internal directives
• Analyse financial statements of potential acquisition targets
• Lead or assist with due diligence of potential target acquisitions 
• Lead or assist the deal team through the deal negotiation process

Develop the disinvestment proposal    

• Together with M&A team, prepare the disinvestment proposal liaising with Vodacom business heads, internal technical specialists and business heads, as appropriate.
• Develop detailed financial and valuations models

Customers, Suppliers & Third parties    

• Engagement and contracting of external parties

Partner with business

• Activity drive the operating companies strategy in executing value  enhancing transactions
• Be part of the engagement model in the operating companies and be the first point of contact within the operating companies for any M&A related activity
• Prepare presentation materials for various exec  utive meetings
• Follow governance process to obtain the required approvals to execute the deal
• Provide input into internal presentations, Exco reports, Board reports and other pieces of analysis on an ad-hoc basis

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Post Graduate degree, preferably MBA or CPA
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a financial role, corporate finance, investment banking or financial services.

Technical / Professional Expertise

• Corporate finance/advisory experience coupled with tax and legal knowledge
• Working knowledge of economics
• Knowledge of national policies, regulations, etc., affecting mergers and acquisitions (socio-economic policies, BEE environmental laws, Competition Commission, etc.) plus knowledge of current affairs.
• Must be able to model cashflows and prepare executive level presentations.

Competency / Performance Drivers

• Strong analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (presentations, report writing, etc.)
• Research ability (‘questioning mind’)
• Project management
• Ability to work independently and within a team

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• Signature Programmes - To drive signature technology assurance initiatives from a strategy, governance, risk & compliance perspective and managing risk expectations across all delivery phases.
• Technology Governance - Lead the Governance and Reporting work across Vodacom South Africa as it relates to King IV by developing a strategy to ensure that all Technology BUs follow a Technology Governance Framework. Subsequently report on this to forums such as Technology Assurance Steerco, Audit, Risk and Compliance Committees.
• Continuous Assurance - To drive the automation opportunities across technology to reduce the risk factor and standardise controls across divisions.
• Controls Implementation - To successfully coordinate the effective implementation of robust compliance standards to ensure standardization and simplification across people, processes, and systems. 
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) - To fulfil the role of SME for Technology Governance, Risk and Controls requirements and initiatives within the Technology function. 
• Training and Awareness - To supply training to employees on all levels within Technology, promoting awareness of Technology risk and controls.
• Leadership - Steer Technology Assurance initiatives through team leadership (project squad), defining project goals, communicating with stakeholders, and managing VSA Technology Exco expectations. 
• Stakeholder Engagement - relationship management at a ME, CIO and CTO level.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Perform reviews on technology processes, systems, infrastructure, and network infrastructure across the Cyber Security and GITC environments with the aim of proactively enhancing the control environment. 
• Support and guide senior management on recommendations for closure of high-risk items.
• Design and lead the implementation of controls across the Cyber Security and GITC environments within Technology and related processes.
• Lead a team to implementation Continuous Assurance techniques across the Cyber Security and GITC environments.
• Manage the end-to-end senior stakeholder relationship across Technology, providing proactive support and guidance to senior stakeholders (MEs, CIO and CTO) on the management of technology risks through robust controls. 
• Server as a domain lead and subject matter expert for end-to-end governance related matters within a specific Technology domain. 
• Process Governance and Quality – Design, implement and monitor policies, processes, procedures as required.

The Ideal Candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Overall experience – at least 5-8 years
• At least 5 – 8 years’ experience in leading risk, assurance, controls, and compliance management in a technology environment 
• At least 5-8 years’ experience in Technology Security or a Technology Audit function in a management role would be advantageous.
• At least 5-8 years’ experience in process definition and management

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Providing proactive support and guidance to senior stakeholders 
• Governance and Reporting
• Technology Governance in large enterprises (specifically KING IV)
• Risk Management and control in a Technology environment
• IT Audit, Risk or Assurance in large enterprises 
• Relevant Frameworks (COBIT, ITIL, ISO9001, ISO50001, SOX etc) preferable
• Technical/Infrastructure controls knowledge is preferred of the following platforms:
• Operating Systems (UNIX, LINUX, Windows)
• IT Networks
• Firewalls
• Databases (SQL, Sybase, Oracle)

Personal attributes:

• Grasping of technical concepts rapidly and the ability to articulate these concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Good stakeholder engagement skills.
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies