Senior HPC Infrastructure Support Engineer (5 years fixed term contract)

Declaration

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is a Section 3(a) public entity under the Ministry of Water and Environmental Affairs and is governed by a Board of Directors. The company became a public entity on 15 July 2001 in terms of the South African Weather Service Act (No. 8 of 2001). It is an authoritative voice for weather and climate forecasting in South Africa and as a member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) it complies with international meteorological standards.

As an Aviation Meteorological Authority, SAWS is designated by the state to provide weather services to the aviation industry, marine and a range of other identified clients and to fulfil a range of international obligations of the government of South Africa. SAWS is also the official provider of weather and climate information for the South African public and for commerce.

Senior HPC Infrastructure Support Engineer (5 years fixed term contract)

To provide specialist operational support, administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, monitoring, performance optimization, and risk mitigation for the SAWS High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. The incumbent will ensure availability, reliability security and performance of HPC infrastructure, including compute nodes, storage systems, Linux platforms, HPC applications, networking and HPC applications to support critical scientific and operational workloads. Contribute to the requirement for the procurement of the HPC systems and other related systems.

Reference #: WS07/102026

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Closing date: 06 Nov 2026 23:59