Senior Compute Systems Engineer

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description

Qualifications:

  • BTech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic
  • Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 13 years' experience,
  • BENG/MTech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems,
  • Electronic Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 9 years' experience,
  • MENG in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic
  • Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 7 years' experience,
  • PHD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic
  • Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 5 years' experience.
Experience:
  • 3+ years in a technical leadership or software/system architectural role with direct responsibility for large-/platform-scale distributed systems.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience in infrastructure design and automation, distributed systems, observability, CI/CD, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), DevOps/SRE practices and cloud-native technologies.
  • Experience leading teams or initiatives that intersect with data platforms, storage, networking, and systems engineering domains
Knowledge:
  • In-depth understanding of systems engineering principles, including performance optimization, fault tolerance, and resource scheduling in Linux-based environments.
  • Strong knowledge of containerized environments (Docker, Podman), orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Helm), and runtime architectures (containerd, CRI).
  • Expertise in infrastructure-as-code, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), and configuration management tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD).
  • Advanced understanding of distributed computing and storage architectures, including Ceph, S3, NFS, and local/clustered file systems.
  • Operational and architectural fluency in relational and NoSQL database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), including replication, backups, and performancetuning.
  • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, security protocols, and systems level observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack).
  • Familiarity with the HPC ecosystem (e.g., SLURM, job schedulers) is beneficial for environments supporting scientific or research computing.
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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1543569
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned