Senior Systems Engineer at Datafin Recruitment

DUTIES:

• 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.
• 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.

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or the Physical Sciences.

Experience/Skills 

• 7+ Years of experience, professionally, in Systems Development.
• Experience in Data Ops / Data Engineering.
• Working with large volumes of data and continuous data streams.
• Experience working with geospatial data.
• In the use of authorization protocols such as OAuth2.
• Experience in the use of version control software.
• Design, development, testing and deployment of production-grade services, APIs and web applications.
• Relational database design and SQL.
• Proficiency in Python and R programming language.
• Familiarity with JSON and JSON Schema.
• With the Linux command line and Linux server administration.
• Familiarity with Microsoft systems and Windows Server administration.