Senior Storage Engineer at SARAO - South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

• 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 strategies
• Staying 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.

Key Requirements:
Qualification:

• B.Tech/B.Sc (Comp Sci or related field) with 13+ years; OR
• B.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 environment

or

• engineer 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 administration
• Operating 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 infrastructure
• Knowledge of Ethernet networks

Deadline:27th February,2026