Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life-cycle may be encountered).
• Provide hands-on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments, and processing, which may include site visits to the Karoo.
• Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations, and early science activities.
• Assist in maturing software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardisation and improved long-term maintainability and robustness.
• Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers.
• Compile document sets.
• Provide project management and progress reporting input as required by the Functional Manager and for team communication.

Key Requirements:

Qualification:

• B.Tech/B.Sc (Comp Sci) with 5+ years; OR
• B.Eng/B.Sc Hons (Comp Sci) with 4+ years; OR
• M.Eng/M.Eng/M.Sc (Comp Sci) with 3+ years; OR
• PhD with 2+ years; OR
• Engineering (with a software focus) or related field

Experience:

• Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong software focus.
• Python or C/C++ programming language and experience in the development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release, and support of large-scale projects in Python or C/C++.
• Technical knowledge of development in Linux operating systems (experience in system administration of such will be beneficial).
• Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with control and monitoring will be beneficial.
• Experience in programming in the Python programming language.
• Experience in prototyping and development, including, testing, deployment, commissioning, release, and support of large-scale projects.
• Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies, and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Experience in the implementation of project management and system engineering principles.

Knowledge:

• Modern software collaboration tools such as Github, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA, etc.
• Python programming language.

Additional Notes:

• Participate and thrive in a collaborative environment.
• Both to work independently and be a good team player.
• Troubleshoot issues methodically.
• Ability and willingness to self-train and up-skill independently.
• Communicate effectively (written and verbal).
• Understanding and experience in implementation of project management and system engineering principles.
• Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Willingness to play a leading role in mentoring juniors.
• Ability both to work independently and be a good team player.
• Ability to participate and thrive in a collaborative environment.
• Self-motivated and an ability and willingness to self-train and up-skill independently.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

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