About SARAO - South African Radio Astronomy Observatory
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), a facility of the National Research Foundation, is responsible for managing all radio astronomy initiatives and facilities in South Africa, including the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in the Karoo, and the Geodesy and VLBI activities at the HartRAO fa... read morecility. SARAO also coordinates the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN) for the eight SKA partner countries in Africa, as well as South Africa’s contribution to the infrastructure and engineering planning for the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope. To maximise the return on South Africa’s investment in radio astronomy, SARAO is managing programmes to create capacity in radio astronomy science and engineering research, and the technical capacity required to support site operations.
SARAO - South African Radio Astronomy Observatory Jobs in South Africa
The Senior Data Analyst/Telescope Operator will be part of the science operations team and will lead a team of 4-5 data analysts/operators to support SKA-Mid science operations and development acti
Purpose of the Role
The SKA-Mid Power Project Manager will manage the procurement and delivery of the Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for the SKA-Mid telescope. The PPA will need to meet the tec
Purpose of the Role
The Pipelines Developer works within the Pipelines Team in the Data Processing and Pipelines department. The core purpose is to develop radio astronomy pipelines and data pro
Role Overview
This role involves providing project management services for Engineering, Technology Research, and Development initiatives that facilitate the construction of major Radio Astronomy
Position Overview
The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day requirements for local and international travel specific to business needs. This function must be completed within the poli
The SKA-Mid Compute Systems Engineer supports the development, integration, and maintenance of computer hardware and related systems that enable the telescope technical and operational goals. This
Purpose:
The SKA-Mid Senior Computer Systems Engineer, will lead the compute and storage systems team for SKA-Mid and will report to the SKA-Mid Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager within
The SKA-Mid Storage Engineer supports the design, implementation, management, and optimisation of enterprise storage systems that enable the Telescope technical and operational goals. This role ens
The main purpose of the job is to provide housekeeping to SARAO. Ensure the offices and other venues is kept in a clean and safe working environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Clean and main
The main purpose of the job is to provide housekeeping to SARAO. Ensure the offices and other venues is kept in a clean and safe working environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Clean and main
SARAO seeks to appoint a DevOps Engineer, responsible to automates and supports the tools and processes relating to continuous delivery, integration and deployment for software packages, platforms,
Apply hands-on expertise in the field of optical fibre to assist the delivery of the Radio astronomy telescopes such as MeerKAT Extension and SKA-1 Mid Dish fibre network (DFN), Optical Fibre Netwo
The purpose of the role is the design, development, deployment and operational support of Electronics systems with particular emphasis on applications in Radio Astronomy Instrumentation.
Key R
To support the implementation of SARAO’s science engagement and outreach initiatives. The incumbent will assist in planning, coordinating, and evaluating public engagement activities aimed at
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) seeks to make an appointment for the position of RF\Electronics Technician. The main purpose of the job is to focus on the electronics and embe
This role involves offering project management services to SARAO program managers and management for Engineering, Technology Research, and Development initiatives aimed at facilitating the construc
SARAO has an exciting opportunity for a IT Security Technical Lead to join our team based in Cape Town. Working as the technical lead within the Compute Infrastructure Group, this role takes overal
The contracts scheduler is in charge of creating, managing, and updating the project contracts schedule (i.e. programme), as well as progress reporting, highlighting risks or issues, and administer
