Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Software Developer (Python / Django)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Centurion, ZA (Onsite)  •  9 hours ago
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Job Description

Software Developer (Python / Django)

12 -months contract

Location: Centurion- onsite

Join an in-house engineering team to implementing critical security remediation, strengthen CI/CD infrastructure, and support BSS integrations for a major 5G consumer network launch We need strong generalists who take full ownership of our Python, Django, and AWS ecosystem while seamlessly adapting as business priorities evolve.

Key Responsibilities

  • 5G Network Launch: Support the rollout of our 5G consumer network through BSS development and system integration.
  • Security & Code Remediation: Audit, rework, and refactor ~20 Python/Django repositories to fix vulnerabilities across application code, dependencies, and AWS infrastructure (applying SAST, secrets scanning, and OWASP principles).
  • CI/CD & DevOps: Establish automated build, test, and deployment pipelines to elevate code quality and maintainability.
  • Engineering Quality: Participate in code reviews, write automated tests, maintain technical documentation, and ensure smooth knowledge transfer to permanent teams.

Minimum Requirements

  • Core Tech Stack: Strong hands-on Python and Django development experience.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Solid AWS expertise (EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda).
  • Application Security: Practical knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding, SAST, dependency scanning, and secrets detection.
  • Delivery & Tooling: Strong Git/GitHub workflow skills, REST API/microservices architecture, and hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Docker, containerisation, GCP, or event-driven messaging (Kafka).
  • Telecommunications / BSS environment background or security-focused project experience.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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