UniRec is urgently looking for an Embedded Networking Software Engineer to join their client based in Centurion. Salary is highly negotiable depending on qualifications and experience.

PLEASE NOTE:
Should you apply for this vacancy and your skills and experience DO NOT match the inherent REQUIREMENTS of this position, YOUR APPLICATION WILL BE IMMEDIATLEY DELETED. Please ensure that you READ and understand this advertised position BEFORE sending your CV to us, or otherwise you will just be wasting YOUR time and ours.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science with at least two years of relevant work experience.
• Proficient in embedded programming (C/C++) and scripting languages (e.g. bash, Bourne shell, Python).
• Experience with IXP/NFP software development (C/assembler) is desired.
• Extensive experience with development and debugging on a Linux platform is required (GCC/G++, revision control systems, build systems, troubleshooting, debugging and profiling tools).
• Experience with embedded systems and embedded software development is required. Experience with multi-threaded programming is desired.
• Knowledge of major network protocols such as TCP, IP, HTTP, Ethernet, ARP, ICMP, UDP as well as typical network device operations such as parsing, classifying, filtering and forwarding traffic is desired.
• Knowledge w.r.t. implementation of network protocols and device driver/network stack internals for Linux and/or other embedded operating systems is desired.
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies (e.g. hypervisors, IOV) is desired.
• Extensive experience with designing and optimizing software to meet specified performance goals is required.
• Experience with network security protocols (e.g., IPsec) is desired.
• Knowledge of network switching and routing including network design, L2 bridging, STP, L3 routing and dynamic protocols is desired.
• Assembly language programming experience is advantageous.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplined team environment is required.
Strong oral and written communication skills are required

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a team to design, develop, debug, test and support high-performance networking software.

Remuneration:

• Salary is highly negotiable depending on qualifications and experience

Disclaimer:

Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted. Therefore, if you have not received any correspondence within two weeks of your application, you have been unsuccessful