Software Engineer - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 06-11-2018 10:59:17 AM
01-01-2019 10:59:17 AM
Software Engineer (Research)
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape
Salary: Market Related

Our client in the Research industry is looking for a Software Engineer, responsibility of this role is software engineering with a focus on the Science Data Processing system.

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
• Assistance in maturing of software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization 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
• Participate in development of project schedules and activities
• Participate in the development of budgets and cost/benefit analysis for compliance with project procurement policies


Requirements

• NQF 6 or higher in Computer Science, Engineering (with software focus) or related field
• 5+ years' experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project with a strong software focus
• Python programming language and experience in development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release and support of large scale projects in Python
• Technical knowledge of development based on Linux operating systems
• Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with science data processing systems will be beneficial)