Senior Technical Specialist at University of Cape Town

Job description

The University of Cape Town seeks to appoint contract and permanent Senior Technical Specialists supporting Open Source systems and applications, and invites applicants to join the African Research Cloud. We’re looking for applicants who are versatile, passionate and dedicated to technology and service provisioning. You can work independently, displaying initiative in a fast-paced and heterogeneous environment where your accomplishments lead directly to the success of your team and in support of campus administration, teaching and research at the institution.

Minimum qualifications and experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification and relevant industry qualification
• Minimum 10 years’ industry relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience in:-
• a lead project role
• providing technical leadership
• Advanced skill and proven experience in implementing and managing the following categories:-
• various *Nix Operating Systems, including SLES, RHEL, Ubuntu and MacOS
• Open Source Databases (one or more of the following - MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, MariaDB etc.)

Web server technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, XML, GlassFish and Jetty

Experience with any of the following would be to your advantage:

• Experience with Single Sign-on/Federation technologies such as CAS, SimpleSamlPhP, ADFS or Shibboleth
• Proven experience implementing configuration management using (e.g.) Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, Nagios, CFEngine etc.
• Experience providing services for HPC within an academic environment
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing complex file transfer and storage mechanisms, e.g. Ceph, Gluster, UDT and/or Hadoop
• Proven Experience administering systems and applications on virtualised platforms, including private/public cloud environments (Openstack, Eucalyptus, Amazon or Azure)
• Architecting and maintaining open source end-to-end systems
• Scripting or programming with Perl, PHP, Java, Python or Ruby on Rails