As the company data storage grows and new hardware is purchased additional staff are required to manage the environment.
Key Outputs
•Monitoring, Reporting and Troubleshooting of the storage environment.
•Assisting in delivering storage related projects.
•Liaising with all departments in TI and technology teams across all companies.
•Ensuring that the Storage environment achieves a 99.99% uptime SLA out site scheduled change windows.
•Ensure that all storage related CA calls are address within a 94% SLA.
•May be required to assist in other projects in the department.
Competencies
•Attention to detail
•Adhering to processes and procedures
•Dealing with pressure
•Excellent communication skills
•Required to work after hours and weekends
Qualifications & Experience
•Matric/Grade 12
•Minimum 3 years Storage Administration experience
•Working experience with EMC Symmetrix, EMC Connetrix, EMC Control Centre, EMC Symmetrix Management Console and EMC Symmetrix Performance Advisor.
•Understanding of how the following technologies work EMC Centera, EMC Networker and EMC Avamar.
•Understanding of Symantec volume manager
•Storage Creation, Allocation and assignments to Unix, Windows, VMware and Linux servers.
•Script creation for nightly and adhoc refreshes from production.
•Emc certification will be beneficial.
Responsible for successfully planning directing and coordinating the activities of a project.
Responsibilities
·Project Planning and Monitoring; ·Risk and Issue Management; Resource conflict resolution, Scope change management. ·Change Control; Project Administration; and Document Management; ·Manage the stakeholder expectations. ·Responsible for the overall strategic management of the project ·Budget Resource planning and control ·Is the primary driver for getting projects delivered on time and within budget, to the extent that the key project work streams being technology delivery and solution delivery attain these objectives. ·Produce project plans plan, manage, drive and facilitate the delivery through various work streams of the project through the work stream leaders; ·Identify, quantify, communicate, co-ordinate activities, dependencies and project risks across work streams ·Maintain a holistic view to the project and address peripheral & critical success factors, e.g., organizational change management, project change management, project morale, project staffing is management, project morale, project staffing issues, project quality control and project communication; ·Direct and drive Training and change management.
Qualifications and Experience
·3 Year industry related Degree.·3 to 4 Years related experience.
Our client is looking for a Service Centre Manager to manage the people and activities of the service centre. The team
consists of four highly skilled Technicians, two Senior Technical Staff and two non-Technical staff.
· At least 3 years prior experience in maintaining complex DC to RF/microwave equipment
· Advanced knowledge of Support services
· Understands requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 9001
· Analysis of financials, productivity and performance
· Knowledge of managing customer expectations with regards to costs and turnaround times
· Experience in setting competitive but value related pricing for services
· Proven record in leading and managing highly skilled technical people
· Manage day to day operation of an electronic repair and calibration facility that maintains high
value and high technology products owned by blue chip, quality driven and
demanding customers
· Establishes and manages budgets and fully responsible for cost control
· Responsible for promoting facility and developing new revenue streams
· Required to balance meeting business goals with employee satisfaction
· Awareness of emerging customer needs
Attributes:
Problem Solving,
Analytical Ability,
Communication Skills,
Bilingual,
Interpersonal Skills,
Dexterity, Task and Time Management
Key Performance Areas:
· Grow, improve and maintain the profitability of the division
· Provide technical support, planning and management to meet customer needs and business objectives
· Manage day to day operation of an electronic repair and calibration facility
· Lead and manage a team of highly skilled and experienced technicians, including laboratory head
· Participates in the definition of the organization’s strategy
Implement changes to existing systems and databases. Does system analysis testing security and performance assessments.
Responsibilities
·Define and document the functional boundary of the system. ·Define and analyse the required interactions between the system and its environment in terms of interface constraints. ·Define and analyse each function that the system is required to perform. ·Analyse the integrity of the system requirements. ·Perform a risk assessment on each requirement. ·Manage traceability between the system requirements and derived artefacts. ·Ensure that business needs/requirements are satisfied by the system requirements. ·Manage changes to system requirements. ·Document, and maintain the set of system requirements together with the associated rationale, decisions and assumptions. ·Liaise and communicate the system requirements to the necessary audiences e.g. testers, developers, business analysts. ·Review test plans, scripts and test results to ensure that the system delivered conforms to quality standards and system.
Additional Requirements
·Knowledge and understanding of the development methodologies and Unified Process·Understanding and hands on experience on modelling tolls and Languages·Prepare requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations.·Understands technical design specifications.·Design solutions design considering existing frameworks and architecture·JAVA Programming experience will be an advantage·LINUX experience will be an advantage·Postgres SQL experience will be an advantage
·JBOSS / J2EE experience will be an advantage
Qualifications and Experience
·Degree or Diploma and the required Certification.·3 to 5 Years relevant experience.
Develop and maintain Perl applications for ETL type environment which may also include OS level scripting. Generate reports and other file extracts from various DB sources. Requirements:·Perl (at least 3 year) with some experience in the following areas:oDatabase interfacesoNetworking (TCP Sockets)oOS scripting (Unix type environment)oInstalling Perl modules (from source)·Database experience (more than 3 year):oETL experienceoData ModelingoMaster Data ManagementoOLAP experienceoMultidimensional databases (including modeling)oData warehouseoRDBMS: Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle·Operating System Competencies Required (at least 3 year):oFair knowledge of Unix type systemsoJob scheduling oMonitoring (SNMP)oInit scriptsoProcess ManagementoPackage management (RPM)·General Requirements:oVersion control (CVS, SVN)oGood at documentationoGood communicator (can present technical ideas and concepts to non-technical people)oSome experience in other scripting environments (Python, BASH)oGeneral programming experience (other than Perl, Python and BASH)Education:
The following are not required, but would be an advantage to have:
·B.Sc (IT) or similar, B.Com (IT) or a B.Eng (IT) or similar·Any certifications like RHCE, LPI, Linux+, CLA,CLP,CLE etc.
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Programming for at least 5 years, (at least 2-3 years in C#) – candidate will also need to be able to read Delphi code
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Transact SQL (2 year)
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Experience calling web services
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Experience creating web services
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Good design & documentation skills
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Good Communication Skills (internal to company and with clients)
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Be able to unit test applications and document testing
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Be able to review other developers’ work
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Be able to assist / train other developers
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Be able to work in a team.
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Ability to learn quickly. We have lots of existing systems and procedures which will need to be grasped.
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Work overtime when necessary
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Do after-hours standby / support
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Travel to client sites.
Advantageous:
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Database triggers and Stored Procedures
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XML / DevExpress experience
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ASP.NET / .NET experience
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Java experience
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Delphi experience
Knowledge of:
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Microsoft Operating Server systems
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Microsoft SQL Server and other RDBMS
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Microsoft IIS 5.0, 5.1 & 6.0
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Programming for at least 5 years, (at least 2-3 years in Delphi)
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Transact SQL (2 year)
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Experience calling web services
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Experience creating web services
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Good documentation skills
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Good Communication Skills (internal to company and with clients)
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Be able to unit test applications and document testing
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Be able to review other developers’ work
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Be able to assist / train other developers
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Be able to work in a team.
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Ability to learn quickly. We have lots of existing systems and procedures which will need to be grasped.
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Work overtime when necessary
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Do after-hours standby / support
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Travel to client sites.
Advantageous:
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Database triggers and Stored Procedures
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XML / DevExpress experience
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ASP.NET / .NET experience
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Java experience
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C# experience
Knowledge of:
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Microsoft Operating Server systems
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Microsoft SQL Server and other RDBMS
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Microsoft IIS 5.0, 5.1 & 6.0
*This position is for 4-6 fixed term contract with the intention of going permanent
The Company is a market leader in the supply and marketing of top quality Animal Health – and Environmental products
Outputs:
Business plans and strategies, develop innovative strategies to expand business and increase market share
Align strategy with customer needs
Develop marketing, sales, business and product positioning strategies
Achieve profitable top-line revenue growth
Operationalise strategy, including ensuring appropriate stock levels
Lead team in strategic execution
Develop systems, structure and processes that impact change efforts
Liaison at all levels, work allocation and staff guidance
Monitor and evaluate budget, targets, expenses and cost analysis
Supervise/Manage staff, including performance appraisals and development feedback
Regular travel to all regional offices and contracted customers in the RSA and abroad
Requirements:
BSc Animal Health/Pharmacist or MBA qualification
Specific 10 years minimum experience in a Marketing and/or sales position
Proven record of experience in sales and marketing
Thorough knowledge of and conversant with production figures in poultry and / or livestock
Budget preparation
Know credit control
Impeccable track record in the animal health industry
Strong computer literacy with emphasis on Excel
Strong Management, communication and negotiation skills
Must reside in PRETORIA
Advantageous:
Above average energy levels, initiative and innovation
Business acumen
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
A team player
The ability and sophistication to build business relationships and to interact with role players in the animal health industry (poultry, swine and dairy)
