Senior Specialist Systems Developer

SUMMARY:
We require the services of an experienced systems engineer to be responsible for the design and development of data- and metadata-automation pipelines in support of the management and publication of continuous data streams originating from a variety of land- and marine-based environmental monitoring instrumentation. This is a challenging role, which will require the incumbent to work closely with data curators, developers, scientists and technicians to
understand and capture system requirements, and to establish a framework for automating the harvesting and processing of data streams so as to integrate with existing systems and workflows.

POSITION INFO:
REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE

• Consult with data curation and data science teams, and internal and external stakeholders, as needed, to understand and capture
• system requirements.
• Analyse and understand the functioning of existing production and legacy systems.
• Conduct research into available tools, technologies and best practices in formulating an approach to system design and
• development.
• Create and maintain system design diagrams (UML, ERD, etc) using online diagramming tools.
• Create and maintain system documentation using GitHub and/or the uLwazi wiki.
• Develop system features and enhancements.
• Create unit tests for services and APIs.
• Fix bugs.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Maintain source code using git and GitHub.
• Work with the systems development lead to establish scope and timelines for deliverables.
• Keep track of progress and status of tasks using the Jira project management tool.
• Provide progress updates during weekly development team meetings.
• Engage with team mates to discuss and evaluate system designs, technology choices, etc.
• Give presentations and demonstrations of work, at intervals, for review and feedback by team leads and stakeholders.
• Liaise with the infrastructure team to coordinate server provisioning and system deployment.
• Configure runtime environments, databases, web servers and proxy servers, as needed, in respect of system deployments.
• Apply library updates and security patches to deployed systems.
• Monitor production systems operations and performance.
• Ensure and improve IT Security and regulatory compliance and governance

• Bachelor?s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or the physical sciences.
• 7+ years of experience, professionally, in systems development.
• Experience in Data Ops / Data Engineering
• Experience working with large volumes of data and continuous data streams
• Experience working with geospatial data
• Experience in the use of authorization protocols such as OAuth2
• Experience in the use of version control software
• Knowledge:
• Proficiency in the design, development, testing and deployment of production-grade services, APIs and web applications
• Proficiency in relational database design and SQL
• Proficiency in Python
• Proficiency in the R programming language
• Familiarity with JSON and JSON Schema
• Familiarity with the Linux command line and Linux server administration
• Familiarity with Microsoft systems and Windows server administration
• Should you meet the above requirements, please upload your CV to our website [CVS VIA EMAIL WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED]

NB! This job is now closed. You can apply for other jobs by uploading your CV.