At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to eliminate the back row in education – and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world’s leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We’re Looking For:

The Media Systems Engineer works within the 2U Learning division as the resident expert in media post-production workflows and best practices. They will serve as the system administrator for the post-production environment including 2U’s enterprise media asset management system, media storage solution, and all ancillary post-production related equipment and peripherals that enable workflows including ingest, transcoding, video editing, motion graphics, audio mixing, color correction, video quality assurance, and final delivery. This pivotal role will be a key liaison between 2U post production teams across product lines including Graduate and Undergraduate Degrees, Executive Education, and edX.

This role will collaborate with internal 2U departments including Engineering, Production Innovation, Learning Technology, and IT, as well as external post production vendors, our systems integration partner, and product suppliers to ensure continued proper protocols as they relate to security, ongoing maintenance, updates, and enhancements to post production systems. This person will also work with the Media Systems Specialist to provide guidance and delegate day to day responsibilities. This person is a passionate media and tech enthusiast, constantly monitoring and absorbing media production and ed-tech industry norms, as well as the latest technical solutions including hardware, equipment and post-production related software. The person in this role will aid in determining 2U’s media and video technological vision, implementing media technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company's business needs.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

1. Serve as global Administrator and in-house SME for media/video post-production systems including media asset management solution, AWS storage infrastructure in partnership with 2U IT/Engineering, and all media-related equipment and peripherals

• Monitor performance and maintain post-production systems according to established requirements.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors who are users within 2U’s MAM environment. 
• Main liaison between 2U, post-production vendors, systems integration partner, and product suppliers for ongoing required support and troubleshooting of system anomalies. 
• Provide technical expertise for all post-production editorial and technical staff including editors and motions graphics designers, video post-production management staff, and production staff for day-to-day video engineering needs encompassing all related disciplines such as operational system support monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Ensure security of the media post production environment leveraging deployed tools through access controls, backups, and firewalls.
• Establish and manage all user permissions and track licensing and usage.
• Troubleshoot access issues and outages among end users.
• Administer, support, and operate AWS/S3 tools and cloud-based storage; monitor and report on ingress and egress in collaboration with 2U Engineering team.
• Administer, support, and operate file-based encoding, transcoding, and media conform workflows from ingest through final delivery.
• Manage and inventory all 2U-owned local (US-based) hard drives, RAID storage, and LTO archive library if applicable. 
• Support and operate LTO archive library, RAID storage, and hard drives, as necessary in conjunction with current 2U post production vendor
• Assist with software configurations for physical/local/remote servers and ingest/edit workstations as required.
• Install and maintain physical/local servers and ingest/edit workstations as required.
• Troubleshoot any machine/equipment failures, software glitches, and offline/missing media, escalating to SI partner when necessary.
• Help evaluate and troubleshoot technical quality control issues related to media, including both raw and final assets, and work with stakeholders executing media acquisition on resolving these issues. 
• Make recommendations and implement upgrades to media post-production systems and software with new models and releases in order to support increasing scale, complexity requirements, and future functionality enhancements. 
• Provide insight on required technical specifications for production including field and studio acquisition.

2. Develop, introduce, monitor, and improve workflows and automation in partnership with various stakeholders including internal and external post production teams.

• Develop efficient workflows based on best practices essential to a media post production operation. 
• Develop and update technical documentation, policies, and SOPs for media and editorial workflows.
• Collaborate with 2U’s systems integration partner, product vendors, and internal 2U stakeholders to develop and test API integrations. 
• Participate and advise on best practices for Adobe Creative Suite project and sequence organizational structures, MAM metadata architecture, and taxonomy standards.
• Identify new areas for a more streamlined approach to relevant production and post-production work including automation considerations. 
• Support vendor and partner inquiries regarding external media production best practices and technical deliverable requirements. 
• Participate in discussions and/or review of updates or modifications to overall operational workflows and SOPs, as appropriate.
• Maintain and update technical quality control specifications.

3. Training/Coaching.

• Responsible for training Media Systems Specialist and internal 2U staff and external vendors on related 2U systems who participate in production and post production processes including advising on technical specifications for filming/recording, editing, graphics, audio, and video quality control and assurance.
• Develop expertise on all aspects of 2U’s post-production environment including deployed MAM software and AWS storage.
• Develop and maintain training materials including user-guides, documentation, screen share recordings, etc. for user groups.
• Communicate rollouts of new video post production tools and resources to user groups.
• Training and facilitating internal 2U and external vendor training for any user groups leveraging MAM.
• Provide orientation to external/freelance technical and editorial staff (e.g. video editors) to post-production operational systems.

4. Take on additional duties and responsibilities as required.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.  
• 7+ years of professional video/media production/post production, engineering and operations experience.
• Experience as a System Administrator, Network Administrator or similar role in support of a complex media post production operation.
• Experience with various operating systems and platforms.
• Experience with databases, networks (LAN, WAN), and cloud-based media storage. AWS/S3 and tiered cloud storage experience is a plus. 
• Experience with media processing systems and workflows at various stages of the media supply chain (workflow engines, ingest, transcode, metadata, editing, delivery). 
• Comprehensive knowledge of file-based and proxy workflows, formats, frame rates, aspect ratios, codecs and file types required for a high-volume media post production environment.
• Expertise in media post-production software and editing techniques on non-linear editing platforms including the full Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with enterprise media asset management software. IPV Curator experience is a plus. 
• Full knowledge of encode hardware and transcode software applications. Root 6 workflow engine experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of system security and data backup/recovery.
• Experience with LTO Archive software and hardware.
• Experience with product/project management software, Atlassian Jira is a plus.
• Expertise leveraging various technology and software solutions including Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Slack and overall web-savviness.
• Knowledge of technical aspects of video production, including best practices for filming, lighting and audio engineering techniques.
• Familiarity with video closed captioning and transcription workflows.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism and has the ability to interface effectively with a variety of people including internal staff, executive management, and vendors to establish productive, ongoing relationships. 
• Ability to work with a team with the ultimate goal of creating the highest quality academic content possible for our university partners.
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a courteous, tactful, and concise manner.
• Champion of change management, with a proven ability to influence and guide stakeholders on highly technical processes.
• Supremely organized and capable of handling multiple projects, priorities, and competing deadlines simultaneously.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment that requires constant agility and adaptability.
• An intuitive decision-maker with excellent critical thinking and analytical skills.
• A positive, proactive and collaborative attitude.  
• A great sense of humor and the ability to handle stress with grace.

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

Working Conditions 

Limited travel may be required on an as-needed basis. There will be an intermittent requirement to support media post-production teams in different time zones. 

Physical Requirements

May need to transport/install/rack various post-production related equipment.

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you’re excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us – and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include: 

• 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
• Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
• 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike. 

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at: recruitingaccommodations@2u.com. 

About 2U Inc. 

For more than a decade, 2U, Inc. has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings — from free courses to full degrees — and helping unlock human potential. To learn more: visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. Together with the majority of the world’s top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there — we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay. 

2U is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. 2U requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

About us:

BVNK is a next-generation payments platform for global businesses. We bridge the gap between traditional and digital finance to make payments borderless, instant, and secure. Using the BVNK platform, businesses can send and receive payments on all major schemes and blockchain networks, incorporate stablecoins into their payment flows, and settle funds in over 30 markets.

We are a diverse team spread across the UK, Europe, South Africa and APAC, with a shared belief that in the next five years all payment flows will interact with crypto, and BVNK will be at the forefront of this shift. We recently raised 40m in series A funding, and we're looking for smart, ambitious people to help us build the next generation of payments.

We're incredibly honored to have made Newsweek's list of the top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2 years running in 2023 and 2024.

We're hiring for a People Operations Coordinator reporting to the Head Of People and Talent. This is an opportunity to join a highly motivated and energetic team that's backed by world class investors, going after a new market. 

If you are an individual who enjoys working in a fast paced energetic environment, solving real world problems,  who is motivated by results and growth then BVNK could be a great fit for you.

About this role in the team:

BVNK is looking for a highly personable, dedicated, and self-motivated People Operations Coordinator to join our People Team. Reporting directly to the Senior People Partner, you will be the organisational powerhouse responsible for the efficient administration of our employee operations and the smooth running of our Cape Town, South Africa office.

This pivotal role sits at the intersection of our People function and the workplace experience. You will manage the administrative foundation of the full employee lifecycle (from onboarding through departure) and serve as the essential hub for office management and facilities coordination. We’re looking for someone with a proactive approach who can support our employee community, strengthen our operational efficiency, and collaborate effectively across multiple internal teams and stakeholders.

As the People Operations Coordinator, you will have a direct impact on the day-to-day health and growth of our employees and the workplace environment as we enter our next phase of expansion. Our ideal candidate is passionate about operational excellence, data integrity, and takes the initiative to continuously improve processes.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

People Operations 

• Employee Lifecycle Administration: Manage the administrative processes for the employee journey, including accurately tracking and updating our HRIS (Human Resources Information System) and ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for new hires, role changes, and departures.
• Data Integrity & Reporting: Ensure all people data across systems is correctly uploaded and maintained. Generate and distribute routine reports and metrics to support People Team activities.
• Process Efficiency & Automation: Proactively identify areas for operational improvement, with a focus on leveraging system capabilities, automation, and AI tools to streamline administrative processes and eliminate manual effort.
• System Administration: Serve as the primary administrator for the HRIS and ATS platforms, managing user access and acting as the initial point of contact for system-related queries and basic troubleshooting.
• Confidentiality & Compliance: Strictly adhere to protocols for data protection and confidentiality when handling employee information within the HRIS and shared files, ensuring data security at all times.
• First-Line Support: Act as the initial point of contact for employees' routine questions regarding People policies and general administration, escalating complex or confidential queries to the appropriate team member.
• Administrative Documentation: Prepare general employment-related documentation such as standard letters (e.g., confirmation of employment, reference letters) and assist with routine internal communications.

Office Management & Facilities: 

• Facilities Upkeep & Maintenance: Act as the key contact for the general maintenance and smooth operation of the Cape Town office. Quickly address and coordinate solutions for any facility or operational issues.
• Office Stock & Supplies: Oversee the inventory and manage the regular restocking of all essential groceries, office supplies, and equipment to ensure the office is consistently well-equipped for daily operations.
• Vendor & Supplier Coordination: Manage relationships and logistics with key office vendors, including suppliers for office equipment, cleaning services, and catering, ensuring high standards and reliable service delivery.
• Access Management: Coordinate all physical office access requirements, including the management of keys, access cards, and ensuring that all necessary employees and approved visitors have appropriate entry.
• Environment & Wellness Support: Support internal initiatives related to employee wellness and contribute to maintaining a positive, professional, and efficient office environment.

What we need from you:

• Experience Foundation: 1-3 years of direct experience in a People Operations, HR Administration, or Office/Admin Coordinator role, ideally within a fast-paced, scale-up environment.
• Operational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume administrative tasks with exceptional organisational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
• Data Integrity & Security: Unwavering commitment to confidentiality and the ability to strictly manage sensitive employee data according to policy.
• Process Improvement Mindset: Proven track record of identifying inefficiencies and a strong aptitude for utilising technology, automation, or AI features within systems to optimise workflow and increase efficiency.
• HRIS & Data Savvy: Proven experience maintaining data integrity within an HRIS (Human Resources Information System) or similar database platform (e.g., ATS).
• System Proficiency: High proficiency in Google Workspace or Microsoft Office Suite, particularly with spreadsheets for data tracking and reporting.
• Logistics & Coordination: Practical experience managing office facilities, logistics, inventory, and vendor relationships (e.g., cleaning, supplies, maintenance).
• Proactive Problem-Solving: A demonstrable track record of identifying inefficiencies and proposing solutions to improve and streamline administrative processes.
• Service & Communication: A proactive, customer-service mindset when engaging with employees, vendors, and internal stakeholders. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

What you can expect from us:

• Fair and competitive salary at every stage of your growth
• Meaningful ownership in the business through our employee option scheme
• Flexible working hours, with hybrid working at its heart
• A culture built on passionate, growth-minded people
• A flexible approach to holiday
• Opportunities to travel to our offices around the world
• An open and creative environment where you can help us define the future of BVNK, its culture, and its opportunity sets

At BVNK, we are focused on building a diverse and inclusive team. While you may not meet all of our requirements, we’d encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of our expectations. You may be a great fit for this role or another role in our team.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a highly competent Database Engineer for both on-prem and AWS Cloud. The successful candidate has considerable hands-on experience managing multi-node, multi-TB, high-load clusters, and has worked in high-pressure environments interacting with Production, Development and Infrastructure teams to identify, chaperone and resolve issues in development and production. A deep understanding of and extensive work experience with Galera or Percona Cluster on MySQL and/or MariaDB is key. Relevant experience with industry security standards (PCI DSS, PCI 3DS) is a big plus.

The Role

As a MySQL Database Engineer at Entersekt, you will be part of a company that provides 24/7 support for mission-critical database systems for financial authentication solutions in the market. You will be responsible for performing daily database administration, database design and troubleshooting, replication, and performance tuning tasks for multiple MariaDB and MySQL Clusters in production and development.

Responsibilities

Database management:

• Design, implement, and maintain MySQL/MariaDB database clusters.
• Ensure the availability and performance of databases.
• Perform regular database capacity planning and ensure proper storage management.
• Replication between databases for high availability.

Database security:

• Implement and maintain database security measures to protect sensitive data.
• Manage user access and permissions.
• Implement and maintain auditing functions.

Backup and recovery:

• Develop and implement backup/recovery strategies.
• Regularly test and verify backups to ensure data integrity.
• Plan and execute database recovery procedures in case of failures.

Performance tuning:

• Monitor and optimize database performance.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with team to improve query performance.
• Tune database and platform configurations to utilize hardware capacity.

Database upgrades and patching:

• Plan and execute database upgrades.
• Determine short and long-term upgrade paths and strategies.
• Apply patches and updates to ensure database security and stability.

Troubleshooting:

• Diagnose and resolve database-related issues.
• Provide support to development teams in debugging database-related problems.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred, but not required.
• Proven 3+ years’ experience as a Galera or Percona cluster Database Administrator in a production environment.
• Deep understanding of MySQL database architecture, administration, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Galera or Percona Cluster.
• Experience with data migration, backup, restore and recovery, resolving performance issues, blocking and deadlocks.
• Experience in implementing and monitoring MySQL Cluster to provide high availability for mission critical events, database mirroring, replication, and log shipping.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Perl for automation tasks.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of one or more UNIX-like operating systems (server-side).
• Experience with database security, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git, for managing database configurations and scripts.
• Exposure to the following would be advantageous:
  • Experience in the FinTech or financial services industry.
  • Experience from PCI DSS/PCI 3DS certification processes.
  • Familiarity with other cloud database technologies such as Aurora DB and Global Databases.
  • The FreeBSD operating system.
  • ZFS

Personality Attributes

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex database issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Flexible, team player, goal-driven.
• Willing to take ownership of and proactively seek to improve on existing systems.
• Adaptability and self-motivation to excel in a mobile/remote-first team and company, demonstrating the capability to thrive in a distributed work environment while maintaining high productivity and communication standards.

Spinnaker Support provides global enterprise software support, managed services, and project-based consulting to many of the world’s most recognized and respected brands. Founded in 2008, our customer focus, business integrity, exacting standards, and depth of expertise have earned us the trust and loyalty of over 1,300 organizations located in 104 countries. Our dedicated international team works closely with every customer to ensure they receive exceptional, customized services that clear the way for their operational success. Today, Spinnaker Support is proud to be the industry’s highest-rated provider for third-party software support services for VMware, Oracle and SAP.

We have an immediate need for an SAP Security Services Architect based in the UK or South Africa. This position can be based out of your home office. The Security Services Architect will be responsible for developing and maintaining the operations of security products and offering within Spinnaker Support. This role will serve to define and deliver Spinnaker Support’s approach to security within the 3^rd party support and managed service markets.

This position requires a deep knowledge of the SAP architecture and experience in applying defense in depth strategies to SAP systems. This position will be responsible for providing guidance to clients on attack surface reduction strategies in relationship to the SAP system landscape. This will include identifying, documenting, and guiding clients in security best practices related to the applications, network and infrastructure of SAP systems. This position requires a person with multiple years of hands-on technical expertise in hardening the SAP environment.  The applicant should have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of SAP Subnets and network DMZ. 

Direct Responsibilities:

• SAP CVE and vulnerability analysis - Researching newly disclosed vulnerabilities, assessing technical impact, and developing hardening guidance.
• Security bulletin authoring - Writing customer-facing monthly bulletins summarizing threats and remediation steps for vulnerabilities identified in SAP Security Patch Day notifications.
• Rapid response for critical vulnerabilities - Developing and communicating guidance when high-severity or zero-day SAP vulnerabilities emerge.
• Structured security assessment delivery - Conducting assessments, analyzing results, compiling reports with actionable remediation recommendations
• Customer case management - Triaging and responding to customer security inquiries.

Required Competencies and Experience:

• 7+ years of SAP technical experience
• 3+ years of SAP security hardening, attack surface reduction, and vulnerability analysis
• 3+ years of scripting and automation
• Proven technical writing skills with the ability to document details for complex solutions.
• Deep knowledge of the security architecture across multiple deployment platforms (network, firewall, computer, storage, database and application)
• A detailed understanding of common network topologies and their application to security mitigation.
• Strong field-level/consultative experience with ability to staff teams to meet customer support and service requirements
• Strong analytical skills with ability to understand and document details for complex solutions
• Experience in performing NetWeaver AS system security operations.
• Fundamental knowledge of protecting SAP infrastructure at SAP/OS and DB level.
• Understanding of different SAP products at architectural level
• Understanding of SAP Security Note Monitoring/Telemetry and Proficiency with SAP Vulnerability Management
• Working knowledge of SAP users, roles and authorizations

Preferred

• 2+ years Python scripting programming
• C_SEC_2405 - SAP Certified Associate - Security Administrator
• Management and implementation of RFC Gateway and SNC
• Substantive knowledge of SSO, SNC and SSL
• Security certified
  • Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP)
  • Relevant GIAC certifications (e.g., GSEC, GEVA, GPEN, GSNA)
• 1+ year of Application Security Testing
• Experience in addressing SAP vulnerabilities beyond leveraging SAP Notes.