Job Description

Software Site Support Engineer IT
Cape Town - Western Cape - South Africa

Are you ready to embark on an intergalactic journey? A leading force in Radio satilities and innovation, is seeking a passionate and skilled Software Developer to join their dynamic team. If you have a passion for cutting-edge technology and a desire to contribute to the next frontier of exploration, this opportunity is for you!

Our client supports and promotes research and human capital development through funding, the provision of National Research Facilities and science outreach platforms and programmes to the broader community in all fields of science and technology, including natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. This Observatory spearheads South Africa's activities in the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope, commonly known as the SKA, in engineering, science and construction. National Facility managed by the National Research Foundation and incorporates radio astronomy instruments and programmes such as the MeerKAT and KAT-7 telescopes in the Karoo, the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) in Gauteng, the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry (AVN) programme in nine African countries as well as the associated human capital development and commercialisation endeavours.

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigating support issues reported on site.
• Coordinating tests, fault finding and tracking down of cross-subsystem issues.
• Supporting user requests for data and trend analysis.
• Fixing minor bugs in the deployed software where possible.
• Engaging with different subsystems to identify problems, perform system integration tests, support commissioning tests on site.
• Deploying and maintaining development infrastructure.
• Deploying software subsystems on production systems and manage/monitor site deployments.
• Documentation and project management input as required.
• Site visits as required.
• Training of operators and commissioners on the software subsystems.
• Lab integration tests of subcontractor deliverables with the software systems; feedback/inputs to subcontractors.
• Assist in developing and performing integration tests to test the full software subsystems on lab machines before deploying to karoo systems.
• Configure, install and help troubleshoot operating system software and server hardware.
• Configure and manage subsystem network.
• Monitor and maintain performance of servers.

Qualification:

• N.D (Comp Sci) with 6+ years; OR
• B.Tech/B.Sc (Comp Sci) with 5+ years; OR
• B.Eng/B.Sc Hons (Comp Sci) with 4+ years; OR
• M.Eng/M.Sc (Comp Sci) with 2+ years; OR
• Engineering (with a software focus) or related field

Experience:

• Testing, deployment, commissioning, release and support of large-scale projects.
• Test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks; and supporting systems.
• Quality assurance processes and software development processes.

Knowledge:

• Modern software collaboration tools such as Github, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA etc.
• Knowledge of continuous integration, testing and deployment techniques and tools.
• Knowledge of the Linux operating systems and networking.

Knowledge of the Python programming language is beneficial.

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