• The core purpose/mission of this job is to deliver and manage highly-available systems that meet ’s business requirements.
•ICT Services in particular is responsible for customer facing systems that serve the Enterprise Business Unit.
•The systems span a convergent mix of traditional ISP services, traditional Enterprise Mobile services and emerging ICT technologies like IoT, M2M and Cloud Services.
•A planning engineer is expected to drive the design and delivery of products as well as perform capacity planning of services in line with business requirements and budgetary priorities within the IS - Service Delivery area.
•The planning Engineer interacts closely with business, operations, development and vendors and therefore requires strong.
•Minimum 3 year Degree or Diploma in Information Systems or Engineering (Bsc IT, Bcom IT, Diploma IT)
•Fluent in English and language of country preferable
•At least 3 years’ experience in the IT/Telecoms industry and specifically the application of Information Technology within the telco space of which at least 2 years should be applicable experience at an internationally recognized operator. The Senior Systems Engineer must be widely read and know about many facets of Telecoms including open-source projects and I.T. technologies in general
•Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialisation; with experience in supervising others
•Experience working in a medium organization
•Project management and business optimisation experience would be advantageous
•Exposure to managing external vendor/supplier relationships and service level agreements
•The following experience is a must for this position
o A background in System Architecture & Design which includes the creation of highly detailed functional requirements which describe deep functional logic of a system
o A background in database administration
o A background in Unix/Linux OS systems administration
o A background in Hardware and Storage administration
• Some solid background in programming (e.g. Java, Python, Perl, PHP, C/C++, C#, VB.Net, Erlang etc) is mandatory

Please submit your cv to hr@ukuthembait.co.za only if you meet the criteria above.

Full spec available on request.