Job Openings at TalentUp Africa

Job Description

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology. You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career. You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work.
• You will help customers learn and use AWS services such as Redshift, Database Migration Service, Glue, S3, and Schema Conversion Tool.
• You will deliver on-site technical engagements with customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, contributing to internal Area of Depth (AoD) programs, authoring AWS Data Analytics best practice blogs/whitepaper and creating packaged data service offerings.
• You will work on short on-site projects to assess and optimize the customer’s Amazon Redshift implementations and help customers to migrate from their existing on-premises data warehouses using other databases to Amazon Redshift.
• You will work with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment.

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Qualification And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field or equivalent professional or military experience.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional and the AWS Data Analytics or Machine Learning Specialty Certification.
• 8+ years of experience of IT platform implementation in a technical role.
• 8+ years of development and/or DBA experience in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS).
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning MPP databases (Teradata, Vertica, Netezza, Greenplum).
• Experience with prioritization of projects that mitigate trade-offs.
• Experience in analyzing Data Warehouses such as Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, etc. or Greenplum etc.
• Experience designing database environments, analyzing production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.

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Job Description

• In this role, you will perform Data Modelling, ETL/ELT workflow management and write as well as tune SQL queries. You will demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

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Qualification And Experience

• 1 or more years of IT implementation experience.
• BS level technical degree or equivalent experience.
• Computer Science or Math background preferred.
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required.
• Programming in one or more object-oriented languages like Java/Python/C#/Ruby/Objective C/C++.
• Must have two (2) active AWS certification, at the associate, professional or specialty certification offered by Amazon Web Services.
• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, & S3) including AWS Database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift).
• Knowledge of replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Amazon Database Migration Service, or similar.
• Experience with mission critical databases across multiple database platforms.
• Experience in writing procedural language artifacts: PL/SQL, T-SQL, PL/pgSQL, stored procedures.
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.

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Job Description

• In this role, you will work on large-scale data science/data analytics projects.
• Ability to lead effectively across organizations.
• You will Implement AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments.
• You will define system architectures and explore technical feasibility trade-offs.
• You will work on a code base with many contributors.
• You will be required to prototype and evaluate applications and interaction methodologies.
• You will be required to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences therefore you will demonstrate written and verbal technical communication skills.

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Qualification And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
• 1+ years’ experience of Data platform implementation, including 1+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning Kinesis/Kafka/Spark/Storm implementations.
• 3+ years experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• 1+ years of IT platform implementation experience.
• Hands-on experience with Data Analytics technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Spark SQL, MLib or Storm/Samza.
• Experience with one or more relevant tools (Flink, Spark, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Amazon Kinesis).
• Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc).
• Proficiency with at least one of the languages such as C++, Java, Scala or Python.
• Experience with at least one of the modern distributed Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, MxNet Caffe, and Keras.
• Experience with analytic solutions applied to the Marketing or Risk needs of enterprises
• Basic understanding of machine learning fundamentals.
• Ability to take Machine Learning models and implement them as part of data pipeline
• Experience building large-scale machine-learning infrastructure that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience with AWS technology stack and current hands-on implementation experience required

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Job Description

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology. You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career. You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work.
• You will assist on larger projects or run smaller opportunities independently.
• You will be required to have strong presentation, verbal communication and written communications skills.
• Your focus will be on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery, education and government.
• You will be leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments, Large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud, Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell) and Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.

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Qualification And Experience

• BA/BS degree and a minimum of 10+ years of IT implementation experience
• Two (2) AWS Certification(s) at the associate, professional or speciality certification offered by Amazon Web Services.
• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, computer, storage, and virtualization experience.
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
• Experience with integration of cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java (OR) Python (OR) CloudFormation (OR) Terraform (OR) Powershell (OR) Bash).

Nice to have

• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
• Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.

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Job Description

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology.
• You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career.
• You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work. You will assist on larger projects or run smaller opportunities independently.
• You should have hands-on ability to design and code modules for infrastructure, application, and processes.
• Also, you will be required to have strong presentation, verbal communication and written communications skills.

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Qualification And Experience

• Bachelors Degree or 5+ years of experience as a technical specialist.
• Must have two active AWS certification, AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional and the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language.
• Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
• Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology.
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks such as Kafka, Logstash, Splunk, ElastiSearch, and Kibana.
• Experience implementing and designing cloud native security concepts, DevSecOps, or MLOps.

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Job Description

• In this role, you will employ customer facing skills to represent the company well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.
• You will work closely with the company’s Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customers.
• You will work directly with customers’ business and technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.
• You will be required to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
• You will analyze on-premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open Source Engines like Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.
• You will work with customers to migrate their database environments to AWS. This may include, but is not limited to Re-Host , Upgrade/Optimize, Re-Factor to open source database platforms.
• You will be required to consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.
• You will perform relevant Application/Database replatforming (Commercial to Open Source Engines).
• You will participate in all phases of the SDLC including requirements gathering, business analysis, configuration management and quality control.
• You will develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.

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Qualification And Experience

• 5+ years of DBA experience in Oracle, SQL Server, or other commercial/open source database platforms with migrating mission critical database environments from one platform to another.
• Experience working with high availability, disaster recovery and server tuning strategies including parameters, resources, contention, etc.
• Experience in Shell/Perl/Python Scripting.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent professional or military experience.
• Must have two (2) active AWS certifications at the associate, professional or specialty certification offered by Amazon Web Services.
• Hands-on cloud experience
• Knowledge of replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Amazon Database Migration Service, or similar.
• Experience with mission critical databases across multiple database platforms.
• Experience in Data Modelling, ETL/ELT workflow management desired & ability to write, tune SQL queries
• Experience in writing procedural language artifacts: PL/SQL, T-SQL, PL/pgSQL, stored procedures.
• Experience in AWS Platforms and Service.
• Experience with Custom/COTS Applications and their implementation/maintenance.
• Experience with TCP/IP Networking.