1. Strong customer focus
2. Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
3. 5-10 years experience in Software development and 2-5 years as development Manager
4. Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
5. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
6. Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating.
7. Experience with Ruby, Perl, Java or C/C++.
8. Experience with Java, Linux/Unix, Perl, XML, and Web services, and UNIX tools.
9. BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
10. Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
11. Strong technical vision.
12. Strong presentation and leadership skills.
13. Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
14. Previous demonstrated project management success on similar projects emphasis placed on experience with high-volume web-based applications

A successful candidate should have:  

• At least a Matriculation certificate.

• International MCSE or MCSA (on Windows Server 2003) a requirement. Windows 2008 MCTS or MCITP advantageous.

• Exchange or ISA electives very advantageous.

• A+, Server+, N+ or similar qualification an advantage.

• Cisco certification beneficial as this an area requiring development in our business.

• HP hardware qualification also beneficial.

• Excellent understanding of Windows Event logs and how to identify esolveproblems.

• Thorough knowledge of and experience with Small Business Server2003/2008/2011.

• Experience with implementation/migration projects involving Microsoft servertechnologies e.g. AD, Exchange, Hyper-V, DPM, ISATMG.

• VMware skills beneficial.

• Thorough knowledge of Backup Exec (and NTBackup) configurationinstallation andtroubleshooting.

• Experience with remote support applications and techniques (e.g. VPN, RDP andVNC).

• Excellent knowledge of Active Directory implementationadministration.

• Experience with AD Group Policies and scripts.

• Experience with server maintenance and health checks on Windows Server.

• Excellent knowledge of hardware components and hardware troubleshootingprocedures (desktop and server).

• Excellent knowledge of server hardware systems such as RAID (specifically HP).

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft desktop and server operating systems andsoftware.

• Good working knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications e.g. Word and Excel.

• Excellent knowledge of TCPIP networking is required.

• Experience with configuring ADSL routers and wireless access points.

• Experience and understanding of Exchange 2003/2007/2010 – implementation,administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.

• Experience with ISA 2004/2006 and a good understanding of firewalling principles.

• A minimum of five years desktop support experience.

• At least three years server support and maintenance experience.  

Remuneration:

• Negotiable dependant on candidate. Approximate CTC of R35 – R40k.

• Medical aid (50% paid by company, 50% by employee).  

Please demonstrate your experience clearly in the CV.

1. Degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Engineering
2. Experience in HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript
3. Knowledge and appreciation of web standards
4. Knowledge of one or more Javascript frameworks e.g. JQuery, YUI, Ext-JS
5. Working knowledge of relational databases and back-end programming (C++, Java or Python)
6. Between 2 and 5 years of practical experience building production web applications
7. Excellent written communication and verbal agility are strong assets.

1. Have 4+ years experience managing systems in a Linux-based networked environment.
2. Knowledge & experience of Linux.
3. Excellent communication, prioritization and analytical skills.
4. Excellent knowledge of server hardware and software troubleshooting.
5. Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring.
6. Experience deploying or managing large scale distributed Linux environments is an advantage.
7. Be proficient with one or more of perl, ruby, python, shell scripting
8. Understand Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
9. Understand TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies (DNS, LDAP, NFS, FTP, etc.)
10. Skilled at operating at all levels of the system stack, from hardware through kernel and up to the operating system and network.

1. BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus)
2.  Strong customer focus
3.  5+ years of industry experience
4. Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
5. Linux operating system development (at the kernel and device driver level)
6. Experience with Ruby, Perl, Java or C/C++.
7. Experience with Linux development.
8. Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications
9. Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
10. Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring
11. Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
12. Excellent written communication and verbal agility are strong assets.

A personal service provider  is a cc, co or trust two or less employees ( plus the business owners) with  that :

renders a personal service  to a client or where the services are mainly on the clients premises or  80% of the income of the business comes from one source.

If your cc or co falls into the above your deductions in the business are circumscribed,  you pay  tax at 5% more than a normal business, and the client must deduct PAYE . Phew! Tough!

What to do? Easy speak to Anderson Whittle ( Mark 021 5576438) about their  two Outsource options – both with track records going back before 2000AD – one of them will be great for you!

Two in three British workers have experienced a pay freeze in one of the last three years.  And only one in three is expecting an increase this years. And this increase

will only be 2% less than half the inflation rate. Its clear that things will be tough in the UK in 2012. In SA ? Inflation is said to be 6%, but food prices are skyrocketing while property prices are decreasing. Salaries in SA? We expect overall  a 4% increase….substantially less than inflation! It’s tough here as well as in Euprope!

1. When applying

Don’t put your work number and work email on a CV. This tells the prospective hirer that you don’t mind doing personal business on company time and do they really want that if you are at their company?

2. Don’t apply for one contract at a time

Don’t do it.  Having several irons in the fire keeps in the market and certainly don’t do a shotgun email general resume to everything and everybody.  That will backfire. And don’t apply for advertised contracts where you can’t meet the start date.

3. Don’t take the job description as gospel

About a quarter of advertised task or contract descriptions are inaccurate. If you feel like you meet some of the criteria, emphasize that in your resume or cover letter. But the core criteria or mandatory requirements in the ad must be met.

BUT DO:

4. Enquire about your progress after a week or so

And thank the co. for the interview as well. A short enquiry call, note or email is polite and is something that keeps your name in the forefront of the interviewer’s mind for this and other contracts. But don’t do it more than once.

5. Invest in your CV

This must be professionally done and needs to be short. Use bulleted points and add your details in Active voice (“I”). You may be a great professional Java engineer contractor, but you probably are an amateur CV writer. Get professional help, now!

6. Work with a great Contract House

Using a great Contract House such as AWKinekt Contract House ensures you have excellent tax structures and allowances, exposure to top clients, and fee structures that really maximises your value. And there’s no extra cost for this.

Generation X Y and Z are all suited to contracting…….

Generation Y is not interested in the same work-life balance that their older co-workers are interested in. Those more seasoned generations are interested in a more harsh separation between work life and personal life. They prefer to leave work at work and check their personal lives at the company’s front door. I see younger workers less interested in a harsh separation and actually prefer to integrate personal and work into one entity, I guess we could just call that ‘life’. I want to be able to work from wherever, whenever. The thought is that work is something that you do, not a place that you go. I want to take personal phone calls while I’m at work, access my personal email, and better yet, access to members of my personal life.

With median house prices at R 1,2 Mil in Cape Town and median incomes at R 240 000 p/a the earnings cover of a Cape Town house is 5 times! This is half of Sydney and Hong Kong earnings cover which lead the world! Cape Town is relatively cheap!