NWU

NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY (POTCHEFSTROOM) FACULTY OF HUMANITIES: SADILaR POSITION NUMBER: N000657 POSITION NAME: SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Purpose of the position . Appointment of a Senior Software developer to develop applicable software for the functioning of the Centre whilst providing computational support to projects of the nodes of the Centre. This position is crucial to the activities of the Centre. SADiLaR operates as a new research entity hosted by the North West University which acts as the Hub of a dispersed entity.

• Develop applicable software for all projects in the Hub and Nodes as required
• Provide support to users of the software

• Maintenance of existing software systems

• Develop and maintain optimal functionality of the SADiLaR Portal.
• Liaise with the Technical Manager and Research Manager on the proper functioning of the Portal when necessary

• Advanced knowledge and skills needed to design, develop and implement new computer systems
• Advanced knowledge and skills needed to maintain of existing computer systems
• Advanced knowledge and skills pertaining to the implementation of resource development

• Advanced ability to master new software with ease
• Advance ability to function as part of the teams
• Ability to be motivated and self-driven

• Relevant tertiary qualification in either Computer Science and communication technology, computer engineering or computational linguist (NQF level 5).
• 4 years proven experience in the design of web sites and web portals
• 4 years programming experience in Java, PERL, C, C or Angular
• 4 years experience in either software development, computer engineering, computer science, system development or computational linguist.
• Knowledge of general programming concepts, and databases e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Maria DB (4 years)

• 2 years experience of Linux Admin in relation to application management and deployment using standard libraries, e.g. RHEL/CentOS, Debian, Mint Ubuntu
• Knowledge of machine virtualization, cloud computing or dev ops, e.g. VMware, Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and GitHub (2 years ).
• 2 years experience in hosting multiple tools, e.g. Tomcat, Wildfly/JBoss, Apache, Docker, Kubernetes
• 1-year experience in software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment and maintenance.