JOB DESCRIPTION

• Work with the science team to develop, design and continuously review the company science data lifecycle management policy
• Oversee the alignment of the technical storage solution with the data lifecycle management policy and
• Drive and be accountable for implementation activities for alignment of data lifecycle management policy and processes
• Lead the data storage, archival and backup processes to ensure continuous availability and preservation of telescope data
• Work with other operations leads to make sure that there is continuous support and technical response to address technical issues that emerge during operations of the storage solution
• Implement monitoring, early warning and logging solutions for the storage
• Manage storage solution change rollouts such that key stakeholders are aware of the changes, and are capable of utilizing the updated solution.
• Charting the technical research path with respect to high capacity, high availability, long term archival within
• Support the development and maintenance of System Engineering deliverables such as documentation and system verification, qualification and baselining activities.
• Support CI Storage administration
• Develop and maintain the data delivery policies and processes for MeerKAT data delivery to users
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of robust data delivery infrastructure and solution for MeerKAT

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology or Electrical Engineering
• Relevant storage certificate

Experience:

• 10 years in system design, architecture and analysis with strong storage focus
• Essential to have experience with large scale storage implementations and deployments, performing at peta-scale
• Experience with CEPH (Advantageous)
• Extensive experience in a high performance computing development environment
• Experience designing, implementing and managing large scale storage deployments (> 20 PB)
• Experience designing, implementing, integrating and managing diverse and layered storage architectures, ranging from high availability, high speed storage solution to low energy, cold storage
• Experience in system engineering-driven environment
• Experience of developing innovative solutions and contributing to strategic
• Experience in globally distributed projects