Senior Storage Engineer at NRF National Research Foundation

About the position

Postion Summary:
Oversees the design, implementation, and management of an organization's data storage infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and security. 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 strategiesStaying 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

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelors Degree / Advanced Diploma / NQF 7

Minimum Experience:

• 9-13 years

• B
• Tech/B
• Sc (Comp Sci or related field) with 13+ years; ORB
• 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 environmentorengineer 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 administrationOperating 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 infrastructureKnowledge of Ethernet networks

The NRF website provides more details on the initiatives and activities Applicants should submit a comprehensive CV by registering and apply online through the NRF Recruitment and Selection Portal. Applications should be accompanied by a letter of motivation indicating the applicant·s suitability for the position. The names and contact details of at least three referees should be provided.

Desired Skills:

• Skilled in applied field of position
• Knowledge to be relevant
• Responsible in performing duties

About The Employer:

The National Research Foundation (NRF) supports and promotes research and human capital development through funding, the provision of National Research Facilities and science outreach platforms and programmes to the broader community in all fields of science and technology, including natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) spearheads South Africa·s activities in the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope, commonly known as the SKA, in engineering, science and construction. SARAO is a National Facility managed by the National Research Foundation and incorporates radio astronomy instruments and programmes such as the MeerKAT telescope in the Karoo, the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) in Gauteng, the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry (AVN) programme in nine African countries as well as the associated human capital development and commercialisation endeavours