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    Senior System Specialist | RTC-1 Employment Services

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Position Title: Senior Systems SpecialistEmployment Type: Full Time Salary: up to 23K SAR, all-inclusive depending on experience and qualifications plus family benefits Job Location: Jeddah, KSAAbout the Client: A highly recognized international group handling Information Technology & Services located in KSA.Job Description:- Deliver and manage the complex hybrid cloud computing environments, which integrate public clouds with a variety of on-premises virtualization platforms- Manage the scientific application stack comprising many open-source scientific applications and support researchers during their execution- Support the operations of advanced Linux-based solutions running on virtual servers and containers and hosting critical business and research applications

    Qualifications: – 45 years old and below- Bachelor’s or Higher Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field required- Expert-level knowledge of Linux OS administration- Expert-level knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration- Readily able to author DockerFiles, Kubernetes manifests and CI/CD pipelines- Expert-level knowledge of open-source applications, ability to manage build & compilation process and optimization, strong troubleshooting capability- Expert-level of open-source build tools such as cmake, make, gcc, SCons, Spack, Linuxbrew- Strong knowledge of Git and GitLab and good familiarity with GitOps principles- A strong advocate of Infrastructure As a Code (“IaC”) infrastructure management approach- Familiar with virtualization platforms such as VMware/vSphere and OpenStack- Familiar with public IaaS clouds such as Microsoft Azure and AWS- Good knowledge of programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, bash, and similar)- Familiar with ElasticSearch, Nagios, Prometheus, Ansible, and Terraform

    RTC-1 Employment Services is a licensed recruitment firm based in Dubai, UAE. Our team has been in the market since 2004 and we are supporting various industries with their staffing needs across the Middle East and Africa. More

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    Tech Majlis Associate | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceInternal Firm ServicesIndustry/SectorNot ApplicableSpecialismIFS – Information Technology (IT)Management LevelAssociateJob Description & SummaryA career in Information Technology, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our core business functions by deploying applications that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver the highest levels of service to our clients. You’ll focus on managing the design and implementation of technology infrastructure within PwC, developing and enhancing both client and internal facing applications within PwC, and providing technology tools that help create a competitive advantage for the Firm to drive strategic business growth.Our Operations Support team monitors the overall quality of our service. As a part of the team, you’ll be the primary contact for ensuring the quality of our services is maintained while also considering better ways to provide the same service in a more cost efficient manner and keeping customer satisfaction with our services high.Tech Majlis – KSA Grade Associate Our Firm Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has more than 6,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. We have an unparalleled range of expert capabilities from Strategy, through Advisory and Consulting to Legal, Tax and Assurance Services, underpinned by the standout digital platform in the region. Our Mission One Firm : Transforming our region. Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. In an increasingly complex world, we help intricate systems function, adapt and evolve so they can benefit communities and society – whether they are capital markets, tax systems or the economic systems within which business and society exist. We help our clients to make informed decisions and operate effectively within them Our Values Creating value through diversity. Be yourself. Be different. At PwC, we respect and value differences. We know that when people from different backgrounds and with different points of view work together, we create the most value – for our clients, our people and society. As part of our commitment to individuality we are pleased to hear from candidates from diverse backgrounds, with a mixture of skills, capabilities and experience from the below Job Description. Job title Associate Tech Majlis Level Associate Reports to End User Experience Lead Location KSA Position summary. Responsibilities In this role, the successful candidate will: • Champion a team of TechLounge Customer Experts providing a customer centric service to all PwC employees. • Create an innovative Technology focussed environment where customer satisfaction is primary. • Deliver a daily service providing a focal point for customer interaction and support for all hardware and software issues including [but not limited to] client, mobility, wireless, printing, connectivity, applications. • Maintain/resolve all open incidents/tasks within ticket queue in a timely manner. • Partner with other IT teams on new technology introduction projects to ensure the site is prepared to deploy, educate and support the new solutions. • Ensure all business policies and standards around security and compliance are being met by the Tech Lounge service. • Analyse Tech Lounge performance data and adapt service to better meet business requirements. • Be a resource and guidance for customers with regard to technology use, PwC working policies and procedures. • Establish strong, open working relationships with customers at all levels. • Proactively anticipate, identify and resolve problems, applying knowledge in complex, difficult or stressful situations. • Effectively communicate and share technical information to audiences at all levels of the organization. • Drive a culture of change and innovation.

    Requirements • Experience leading a team within a working retail/service environment. • Excellent customer service skills. • High levels of energy and self-motivation. • Enthusiastic around technology and innovation. • Effective problem identification and solutions skills. • Ability to lead from the front and drive a culture of change. • Strong team player and collaborator. • Fluent in written and spoken English Desired Characteristics. • Experience in delivering a technical support service. • Technical expertise [Windows, Apple Mac, Mobile]. • Experience working in a global organisation. • Proven analytical skills.

    At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

    We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

    PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

    We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

    If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer. More

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    ETIC, SAP Solution Architect – Senior Manager | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceAdvisoryIndustry/SectorTechnologySpecialismAdvisory – OtherManagement LevelSenior ManagerJob Description & SummaryAbout the rolePwC is opening a new Technology & Innovation Center in Cairo that will deliver high quality technology solutions to consulting Clients across the globe. The Centre will provide a broad suite of skills and services to our clients, ranging from Packaged Applications such as SAP & Oracle, to Cloud services utilising AWS, Azure and Google, as well as expanding our existing Managed Services capabilities.  The center is looking to expand rapidly and we are looking for enthusiastic self-starters with a passion for technology and client delivery to help shape and form this new venture.  We are seeking to recruit a SAP Solution Architect to join our team in Cairo.  The successful candidate will have a minimum of 8 years experience in scoping, designing and overseeing the delivery of complex SAP (ECC and S/4HANA) centred, high value solutions. They will be a recognised expert in their field within the local SAP market; providing valued thought leadership and opinion.  They will carry a well established professional network, and have strong alliances into the SAP ecosystem.   You will report to the SAP Service Delivery Director and will be an integral part of the team based in Cairo, as well as those delivering client transformation programmes across the PwC Global Network, including the UK, Germany and Middle East As an SAP Solution Architect, you will play a key role in the following areas:- Support the leadership and management of the new SAP Practice by taking an active role in the SAP Senior Leadership Team  – Responsibility for coaching and developing more junior team members  – Delivering exceptional client service and solutions  – Work with a global mindset with teams based in the UK, Germany and other Middle Eastern Countries – Leading delivery teams to deliver solutions that are on scope, time, quality and budget

    Role Requirements:- Min 8-10 years experience in architecting complex E2E SAP transformative solutions – Demonstrable experience in overseeing the alignment to the solution design throughout the delivery cycle  – Experienced and comfortable in working as part of a global team; co creating solutions with architects located outside of Egypt – Strong working knowledge of the SAP Activate delivery methodology – Knowledge of external architecture frameworks / principles eg TOGAF, SAF)  – Leading expertise in a functional domain e.g. finance / logistics / supply chain / integration – Define end state solution and design end to end processes – Provide GAP resolutions – Counterpart to senior functional leaders at onsite and ability to participate in design discussions with client and PwC functional team lead – Support the functional stream lead with technical evaluation of the solution scenarios (e.g. cost-based vs. account based CO-PA)  – Overseeing solutioning and respective functional specification in the overall transformation context – Identification of dependencies across solutions going down to RICEFW objects  – Managing the overall solution deliverables – Accountable / responsible for overall data migration and cutover topics for the stream – Accountable / responsible for overall issue resolution post go-live and transition to support

    At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

    We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

    PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

    We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

    If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer. More

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    Senior Application Developer – Mobile | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!Your Role and Responsibilities – Designs, develops and supports application solutions. – This specialty would be able to design, develop and/or re-engineer highly complex mobility applications, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable assets.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise – Hybrid developer (3-5 years of experience) – React – Flutter – Ionic – Agile – NodeJS is a plus

    For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

    Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

    Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. More

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    Application Developer – Cognitive Process Automation (Internship) | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!Your Role and Responsibilities Develops automation use cases into a Cognitive Automation solution that can optimize the service delivery. Engages with clients, Automation Project Managers and RPA Architects to provide an end to end solution. Teamwork and client services skills are also important for the specialty.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.

    For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

    Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

    Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. More

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    Senior Application Developer – Mobile Android | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!Your Role and Responsibilities – Designs, develops and supports application solutions developed for Android platform. – This specialty would be able to design, develop and/or re-engineer highly complex mobility applications, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable assets for Android. – The base skill required is Java from a programming language and from an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the skill required is Various JDT tools

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise – Android developer (3-5 years of experience) – Kotlin – Java – Agile – NodeJS is a plus – Postgres/Sequelize is a plus – Elastic Search/Kibana is a plus

    For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

    Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

    Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. More

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    Senior Software Development Engineer | Amazon.ae

    Employment:

    Full Time

    DESCRIPTION Job summary• The Amazon Middle East and North Africa team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building great products for our customers. The SDE-II will be based in Egypt and must have Software engineering experience involving solving complex problems. They SDE-II will:• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables• Write high quality distributed system software• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.• Experience with multiple programming languages such as Java, J2EE, Python , TS, JS, and .NE

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • 5+ years industry experience in designing software architecture and operating scalable software systems• Oral and written communication skills (ability to produce runbooks, technical, and non-technical documentation)• Experience coaching junior software development engineers including code review and design review• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical discipline• Experience with AWS and/or cloud computing• Experience with web services and micro service architecturePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Ability to effectively articulate and drive solutions to technical and business challenges• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly• Experience working with driving product vision to deliver long term customer and advertiser value• Willingness to own all stages of development process: requirements, design, implementation, testing, and operational support• Excellent interpersonal communication with strong verbal / written English skills

    Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae. More

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    Senior Java Developer | Adecco

    Employment:

    Contract

    5+ years of experience of full-stack development of enterprise desktop, Web applications with backend and frontend responsibilities using Java J2EE technologies.3+ years of experience in application design using design principles, patterns and best practices3+ years of Experience in Unit Testing Framework (UI and server side) using technologies like Jasmine, Jest, Karma, Junit, mockito, Jmock.3+ years of experience with ReactJS, Redux5+ years of experience with frontend technologies object-oriented HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript2+ years of experience with AngularJS5+ years of experience with frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot5+ years of experience in developing APIs (REST & SOAP protocols).3+ years of experience with relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server etc..Added advantage non-relational databases like Couchbase, Elastic Search, Cassandra etc..Added advantage Application Performance monitoring using AppDynamics or any monitoring tool

    4+ years of experience in developing applications using cloud platforms (either AWS or Azure)2+ years of experience in creating configuration build and test scripts for Continuous Integration environmentsAdded advantage Integration tools like Informatica, Snaplogic and Solace2+ years of experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies2+ years of experience with Kubernetes, Docker Containers

    The Adecco Group is the world’s leading talent advisory and solutions company. We proudly make a difference in the working lives of 3.5 million people every year. Our culture is entrepreneurial and inclusive, and we are united by our passion for making a difference in the world of work. We work with over 100,000 organizations in 60 countries, enabling their success. We have 35,000 people working with us across more than 60 countries and territories.

    Adecco has been rapidly growing in the Middle East since 2008, developing a substantial footprint throughout the region. We work across 250 different clients, Adecco has more than 62 full time employees, working in 4 offices, servicing all countries across the GCC region. We offer Temporary Staffing, Permanent Placement, Executive Search, Assessments, Visa And Payroll, Outsourcing, PRO Solutions customised as per client requirements. Adecco Middle East Head Office is based in Dubai with a branch at Abu Dhabi. More