Website South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)
South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) is the national facility responsible for managing South Africa’s radio astronomy initiatives.
About South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)
South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) is the national facility responsible for managing South Africa’s radio astronomy initiatives. A facility of the National Research Foundation (NRF), it spearheads the country’s involvement in the global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.
Job Roles
- This includes maintaining physical and virtual storage systems, configuring data redundancy, support disaster recovery, monitor capacity usage and ensuring consistent access to business-critical information.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contributing to the development of long-term storage strategies
- Staying abreast of emerging technologies
- Driving innovation in storage solutions.
- Maintaining comprehensive documentation of storage configurations, processes, and procedures generating reports on storage utilization and performance.
Qualification:
- B.Tech/B.Sc (Comp Sci or related field) with 13+ years; OR
- B.Eng/B.Sc Hons (Comp Sci or related field) with 8+ years; OR
Experience:
- 6 years of relevant experience includes:
- experience in storage system administration preferably in a high-performance computing environment
or
- engineer role coupled with further education or training in system administration
Knowledge:
- Deep knowledge of storage technologies (SAN, NAS, cloud storage, etc.)
- storage protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS)
- storage management tools
- Linux system installation, configuration and administration
- Operating systems (Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, etc.)
- Security (intrusion detection, data backup/recovery)
- Scripting (Python, C C++ Programming Language)
- Databases (SQL etc.)
- Hardware (server hardware, storage systems and other related components)
- Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Distributed monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic)
- Distributed logging (e.g., ELK stack)
- Deployment (e.g., MaaS, FAI)
- Virtualisation and containerisation (e.g., Openstack, proxmox, Docker)
- Continuous integration (e.g., Jenkins, Buildbot, Github Actions)
- Distributed Storage (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, MinIO)
- Knowledge of high-performance computing infrastructure
- Knowledge of Ethernet networks
To apply for this job please visit www.sarao.ac.za.
