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Makwa IT Recruitment 2023/2024
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Makwa IT Recruitment 2023/2024.
Makwa IT is South Africa’s fastest growing 100% black youth-owned technology company
We are recruiting to fill the following position below:
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Job Title: Senior Network Engineer
Introduction
About Makwa IT
Join the fastest growing and most vibrant tech start-up in Africa. Makwa IT is a South African born, 100% Black & Youth Digital Technologies company, established in 2012. We have a presence in 8 provinces within South Africa with our Head Office based in the heart of business activities, JHB, Waterfall. Our certified and specialized resources focus on customized solutions across the ICT spectrum. You’ll be part of a team that passionately cares about its customers, insists on having fun, and focuses on making an impact in society.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide expert multi-technology advice to internal and external clients
- Analyzing and providing strategies and solutions on all aspects of application software, infrastructure, and related technology components.
- Advise and execute on the best design for information technology architectures.
- Develop and maintain deep technical expertise in the Makwa’s product portfolio. Researches and investigates emerging infrastructure technologies and the best practices associated with these trends.
- Designs and communicates high level structure to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs.
- Use client business requirements to advise on the design, deployment and operation of application infrastructures.
- Create designs that provide holistic views, but also contain the details of the components and interconnections between components.
- Work with Account Managers and Engineering to assist clients with developing strategic visions as they move towards enterprise-class solutions. Typical activities include consultative whiteboard sessions with clients, analyzing technical and process data, designing solutions, creating project task outlines, creating scopes of work, and quote generation assistance.
- Involved with projects at the time of inception and is involved along with the project manager in the planning and governance of projects and the functional analysis (FA) of developing the initial requirements. Bill of Material and Proposals.
- Execution of projects, responsible for good quality of Solution Requirement, Solution Design, Network Implementation and Testing Documents
- Contribute advice on improving methodology frameworks.
- Manage the proof of concept (POC) / (POV) initiatives.
- Researches and investigates emerging infrastructure technologies and the best practices associated with these trends.
- Contribute to the improvement of internal effectiveness by contributing to improving current methodologies, processes and tools.
- Deliver on Digital Transformation and Digital technology initiatives across the organization.
- Deliver on Business Intelligence initiatives across the organization.
- Provide specialist strategic insights on the user experience, System Unification, security, customer centricity, journeys and behaviours.
- Lead Makwa strategic and operational planning to achieve goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing Makwa initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization.
- Establish and enhance Makwa departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
- Ensure continuous delivery of Makwa services through oversight of service level agreements with end users and monitoring of Makwa systems performance.
- Assess and make recommendations on the improvement or re-engineering of the IT organization.
- Support company convergence strategy and drive the creation of products and commercial processes to support customer business requirements.
- Identify emerging information technologies to be assimilated, integrated and introduced into the company.
- Ensure robust network security (including communication lines and equipment), disaster recovery, business continuity plan and direct systems development and acquisition.
- Promote and oversee strategic relationships and partnerships between internal Makwa resources and external entities including the larger organization, Vendors, Partner organisations etc.
- Create positive team culture (e.g. curious, mutually challenging, collaborative)
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers and leaders to deliver projects
- Improve engineering quality and efficiency (e.g. improve workflow, code review, etc.)
Desired Experience & Qualification
- Ability to construct solutions using the expertise of more of the functions offerings
- Understanding of distribution & channels go to market model
- Industry knowledge around Enterprise Networking or Security or Cloud or Collaboration solutions
- Experienced in selling SaaS solutions and performing technical demonstrations.
- Industry knowledge of relevant solutions sets, product line specifications, performance criteria and applications
- Competitive knowledge (in area of specialization) including solution, technology and product offerings
- Understands the value of Scripting, Software and Everything as a Service.
- Knowledge of vendor roadmaps, new developments and new product offerings
- Display the required interpersonal and communication skills to effectively interact with a variety of stakeholders
- Ability to share and communicate ideas clearly, both orally and in writing, to executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources in clear concise language
- In-depth understanding of the telecommunication and ICT industry to better advice business in financial matters
- Applicability/ localisation to attain best customer experience.
- Strong collaboration with all divisional heads.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Degree in Information Technology or related field of study or equivalent work experience
- Degree in Engineering, Information Systems or Computer Science.
- Cisco CCIE Enterprise and/or Security
Required Experience:
- 10 years’ experience and senior management track record of 5 years or more.
- Worked across diverse cultures and geographies
- Experience in multiple industries and across several disciplines
- Experience working as a solution architect in a global IT services provider organisation
- A strong understanding of core technology including networks, OS, Storage, Database
- Demonstrated ability to solving business problems and resource management
- Proven strategic planning, design, and execution
- Awareness and understanding of international trends and the development in the Makwa industry
- Strong influencing with negotiation skills
- Network availability management
- Contract and vendor management.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should kindly visit the company website to get more details and submit the application(s).