Senior Software Engineer
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Summary
A senior engineer who designs, builds, and maintains telescope operational software in Python on Linux — from prototyping through deployment and support. Day to day involves system administration of hardware/deployment environments, QA and coding-standard enforcement, mentoring junior engineers, and independent troubleshooting and technical decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualification:
- Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life-cycle will be encountered).
- Provide hands-on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments and processing, which may include site visits to the site.
- Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations and early science activities.
- Assist and ensure maturing of software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization and improved long term maintainability and robustness.
- Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers.
- Provide project management and progress reporting input as required by the Functional Manager and for team communication.
- Participate in development of project schedules and activities.
- Participate in the development of budgets and cost/benefit analysis for compliance with project procurement policies.
- Make technical decisions independently without direction from the Technical lead.
- Innovate independently towards improving the software.
- Troubleshoot and solve very difficult software bugs
Qualification:
- B.Tech/B.Sc Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
- 10 years experience in a software engineering environment, prefereably in an engineering project environment with a strong software focus.
- Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong software focus.
- Python programming language and experience in development, testing, development, commissioning, release and support of large scale projects in Python.
- Technical knowledge of development in Linux operating systems (experience in system administration of such will be beneficial).
- Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with control and monitoring will be beneficial.
- Quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
- Test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control.
- Experienced in computer and environment setup and configuration, including the use of containers, and Kubernetes.
- Knowledgeable to analyse and implement cybersecurity threats suggested.
- Developing applications targeted for the Linux operating system.
- Implementation of project management and system engineering principles.
