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Description

Position at Aculocity, LLC

DO YOU WANT TO BE AN INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

The Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for working closely with the cloud, security, network, and the applications team to plan, organize and support IT operations to ensure stability of corporate IT infrastructure. This includes developing, maintaining, installing, supporting, and optimizing key functional areas, particularly network infrastructure, server infrastructure, Microsoft enterprise, cloud services, and data communications. The Infrastructure Engineer will also schedule and direct activities to resolve system problems in a timely and accurate fashion.

Responsibilities

Operational Management

• Establishes and maintains network performance to the highest standard.
• Plan, setup & install Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Meraki Switches and Access Points.
• Inter-VLAN Routing, BGP, IPSec etc.
• Know and understand Wireless Protocols and Security for best and most secure deployments.
• Troubleshoots network problems using a variety of tools.
• Establishes networking environment by designing system configurations and setup and installing Network equipment in a precise, efficient and effective way.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing of all aspects of Network and System design and implementations.
• Systematic approach to troubleshooting network performance and outages and scheduling upgrades.
• Collaborates with Network & Security architects on network and security optimization.
• Secures network system by establishing and enforcing policies and defining and monitoring access.
• Updating/maintaining of all Windows/Linux servers and network equipment.
• Manage, maintain and support Active Directory On-prem and Cloud.
• Familiar with Microsoft 365 and all aspects thereof.
• Virtualization in the Cloud
• AWS Workloads, Route53, S3 .
• Group Policies, Windows Security, Linux Security, Windows Printer Management, Linux Printer Management (CUPS) and general Windows and Linux Administration.
• Setup, maintain & manage VMWare.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Exchange and Exchange Online in a hybrid deployment.
• Teams Administration
• Microsoft Intune

Sharepoint Administration

• Azure Active Directory and features therein
• Azure / AWS Cloud
• Microsoft 365
• VMWare
• Security
• Networking (Routing, Switching and Wireless)
• Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• Active Directory
• Cisco & Cisco Meraki Switches and Access Points
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Enterprise MDM (Intune)
• Microsoft Teams Administration
• Sharepoint Administration
• Windows Automation
• Group Policies
• Server Hardware, UPS, Fiber, Storage
• Backups, e.g Druva
• Network Monitoring, e.g PRTG, Cacti, Solarwinds, Manage Engine

Formal Education & Certification

• Four-year university degree or college diploma in the field of computer science and/or 6-8 years equivalent work experience.
• Certifications in MS Operating Systems and Cisco networking preferred
• Certifications in Azure, AWS, Microsoft365, Security

Knowledge & Experience

• 6-8 years’ experience managing and delivering infrastructure design and operational excellence.
• Exceptional knowledge of service and application delivery, as well as successful service level agreement accomplishments.
• Extensive experience with VMWare and converged infrastructures.
• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting software, network, and hardware.
• Knowledge of current protocols and standards.
• Application support experience with MS Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Azure, AWS, and Office365 suite.

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Your Mission

You will define, develop, test, analyze, and maintain new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements. This includes building, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications using a rapid application development platform called Mendix. You will also research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the software production life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance software applications using a RAD platform called Mendix (www.mendix.com).
• Integrating designs, flows and processes.
• Industrialize solutions with DEVOPS.
• Evaluate application structure and quality and provide input for performance evaluations.
• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices.
• Improve quality through application of TDD practices.
• Writing technical software requirements and documentation.
• Comfortable trouble shooting critical production issues.
• Maintaining a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability, and emerging technologies; keep team members informed as appropriate, with a view to incorporating these in future projects.
• Paying attention to software development process practiced by the team and help improve it, so we deliver products on time with quality following an agile approach.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by learning, applying and educating team on software best practices.

Key Outcomes

• Build high quality & well documented software applications using the Mendix Platform.
• Follow and recommend improvements to the software development lifecycle.
• Follow and recommend improvements to the overall DevOps process.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years working experience on the Mendix platform.
• Solid experience in HTML & CSS.
• Front-end development skills using frameworks like Bootstrap, ReactJS, Typescript, etc. beneficial.
• Solid experience in API development and enterprise level integration practices.
• Experience using cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) beneficial.
• Experience in relational database management systems like Microsoft SQL Server/PostgreSQL, including data modeling and creating relational databases using SQL.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle including continuous integration & delivery using DevOps tools.
• Experience in working in Agile teams.

Required Education, Certification, Training

• Mendix intermediate certification (or Rapid Developer certificate and willingness to complete the Intermediate Certificate)
• Where will you work? This position will be based in Cape Town, South Africa.

What do we offer in benefits? We offer an attractive compensation and benefits package, to include base salary and benefits such as medical/dental/vision options, retirement/401K plans, etc. The opportunity for growth within this evolving organization is excellent and is limited only by the performance of the successful candidate.

http://www.aculocity.com/

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Data Engineer

This role will suit an all-round Data Engineer experienced in every step of data flow. Starting from configuring data sources to integrating analytical tools. The data engineer is a technical person who will contribute to architecting, building, testing, and maintaining the data platform as a whole

Mission

Deliver accurate data reliably within the required processing time, ready for processing by analytics applications.

You will work across multiple business teams to implement new and improve existing systems for:

• Extracting data from current sources
• Data storing/transition for all data gathered for analytical purposes.
• Transformation: Cleaning, structuring, and formatting the data sets to make data consumable for processing or analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead/contribute to designing the architecture of a data platform.
• Develop data systems tools, customize and manage integration tools, databases, warehouses, and analytical systems.
• Data pipeline maintenance/testing.
• Machine learning algorithm deployment. Machine learning models designed by our data scientists, deployed into production environments, managing computing resources and setting up monitoring tools.
• Manage data and meta-data storage, structed for efficiency, quality and performance.
• Track pipeline stability. Monitor the overall performance and stability of the systems.
• Keep track of related infrastructure costs and manage these as efficiently as possible, continuously find the balance between performance and cost.

Important Characteristics

• Dynamic, driven by results. Enjoy getting things done.
• A proactive, results-oriented, and can-do attitude is highly desirable
• Self-starter with the ability to successfully plan, organize, and execute assigned initiatives with minimal guidance and direction.
• Strong listening, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to conduct systems analysis and prepare requirement specifications concerning data-related business processes and systems.
• Willing to take the initiative.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exhibits close attention to detail and is a champion for accuracy.
• High level of Integrity.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, ability to multi-task effectively
• The ability and willingness to do a variety of different tasks.

Preferred Qualifications And Experience

• A Bachelor degree in computer science or engineering related field.
• 5-10 years relevant experience.
• Intermediate to advanced SQL optimization, developing ETL strategies.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of database and data warehousing principles (e.g. OLAP, Data Marts, Star Schema, lambda/kappa architectures)
• Knowledge of working with stream data pipeline frameworks or solutions, e.g. Apache Flink, Beam, Dataflow, Databricks etc. an advantage
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms is an advantage
• Experience within the Automotive or manufacturing industry is a plus.
• Experience with agile or other development methodologies - Agile, Kanban or Scrum

Preferred Technical Experience

• Implementing data pipelines using cloud infrastructure and services.
• Implementing event-based systems using tools like Confluent Kafka or Kinesis.
• Knowledge of CDC pipelines (E.g. Bin logs, Debezium, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS))
• API integration and development using Python - Fast API, Flask
• DevOps: Docker (ECS), Kubernetes (EKS), Spark clusters, etc.
• Database analysis, design & administration.
• SQL Query optimization and data architecture improvements;
• DB: PostgreSQL, MS-SQL
• ETL: Python, Bash
• Infrastructure: AWS (Kinesis, API Gateway, S3, DMS)
• Dev Tools: Git, Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• OS: Ubuntu, Windows Server

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Description

Position at Aculocity, LLC

Aculocity is a dynamic, fast moving, global technology consulting company that enhances business processes and uses technology to solve business problems. Since we launched in 2006, we have delivered custom software development solutions, implementation of software systems, business intelligence and business process solutions. We are also part of the GVW Group, LLC, portfolio of companies, and we are a premier provider of technology services for all GVW portfolio companies as well as an expanding external client base.

Position Description

The Help Desk Technician serves as the first line of defense providing Level 1 support to computer system users our engineering office located in Cape Town, South Africa. You will work within a team to assist in maintenance and operations of the corporate technology infrastructure. Providing front line user support for all of the businesses.

Requirements

• Associates or BA/BS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5 years work experience in Microsoft Windows desktops, servers and networks.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve basic desktop, notebook and mobile issues.
• General understanding of computer networking, security and infrastructure best practices.
• Effective organization and planning skills and ability to prioritize work on multiple projects with high attention to detail.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and customer service skills to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to meet the physical requirements of the position, including the ability to lift and handle up to 50 pounds in equipment.
• Work with other information system individuals and teams and vendors in other countries.
• Ability and willingness to provide support during off hours when necessary.

Preferred Qualifications And Experience

• Microsoft A+ certification or other industry recognized advanced certification
• Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory
• Understanding of LAN/WAN, DNS/WINS, DHCP and mobile computing environments