Computer Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Department: Office of the Provost
  • Job Type: Administrative staff

Company Description

Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI) was founded in September 2019 to serve as the driver of research and innovation in the digital sphere of Kazakhstan with the focus on AI research. Located at the C4 Research Building of Nazarbayev University, ISSAI conducts interdisciplinary research on machine intelligence for solving real-world problems of industry and society. 

ISSAI aims to develop a national capacity for research in Artificial Intelligence incorporating the experience of exemplars from Asia, Europe and the United States. 

ISSAI provides an agile framework for research, innovation and collaboration with national and international partners in education, industry and government and contributes to the digital ecosystem of Kazakhstan in the advancement of national development goals.

Job Description

Computer engineer performs the following duties and responsibilities:

1)              installing, configuring, maintaining, and administering integrated operating system software and hardware within the Linux/Windows infrastructure of the Division;

2)              proactively and reactively ensuring and monitoring Linux/Windows OS reliability and continuity of the Division;

3)              creating and responding to service management requests: e.g. incidents, changes, and task;

4)              server system administration and troubleshooting analysis in Linux/Windows servers and clients of the Division;

5)              participation in system/networking troubleshooting, problem resolution and maintenance activities, to include on-site and/or telephonic maintenance support;

6)              participation in identification, evaluation, management and monitoring of risks within the framework of supervised direction;

7)              development and creation of web services for the projects of the Division;

8)              technical maintenance support of Division’s web-site and web-services;

9) regularly reading scientific papers related to smart systems and artificial intelligence;

10) timely and properly execution of tasks of the Head and the University`s management;

11) observe the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the NU`s internal documents.

Qualifications

- knowledge of Linux and Windows operating system software and associated hardware;

- knowledge in troubleshooting and configuring hardware;

- knowledge in installation of various tools;

- knowledge in monitoring, securing of connected PC’s, remote devices and hardware;

- knowledge of general understanding of disaster recovery and service continuity;

- knowledge of general understanding of Information technology (IT) infrastructure, including Data Centers;

- knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint;

- knowledge in web development and maintenance of web services;

- fluent knowledge of English, Kazakh and Russian languages;

- more than 3 years of related work experience.

Additional Information

Higher-professional, preferable from the higher education institutions with English language of instruction

Preferred Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer and Software Engineering or equivalent.

 Priority specializations:

- Engineering;

- Information systems and technologies;

- Computer Science

or its equivalent.

Skills:

- monitoring and tuning the system to achieve optimum performance levels skills;

- programming skills (Python, C, C++, C#, PHP 7);

- front-end development skills;

- back-end development skills;

- Bootstrap 4, CSS3, Jquery skills;

- React/ReactNative (preferable) skills;

- Wordpress API skills (v>5);

- skills in MySQL, SQL;

- skills in Unix bash.