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Data Centre Applications Support
2015-03-24 18:06:22| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
This position, based near Frankfurt in Germany, is for a consultant to support the operations and service enhancements of our clients multimission Data Centre. The client is an intergovernmental organisation responsible for supplying weather and climate related satellite data 24x7 to National Meteorological bodies. The data centre is a large facility which provides longterm preservation of all satellite data and generated products derived from past, present and future missions. The consultant will work within the Data Centre Operations team which is responsible for operating the Data Centre and handling all the userrelated activities. Monitoring, configuring, testing and reporting of Data Centre usage, coordination of engineering and maintenance activities with the users, driving Data Centre enhancements based on user feedback, working on Archive data visualisation and prototyping of relevant data services. The key experience and skills sought are Working in an operations environment supporting the analysis of system and user support issues. Experience with working with Earth Observation data, and their visualisation and processing. Experience in designing and developing software components and applications in an operational and web environment. Programming experience in CC, Java languages, UNIX environment, scripting in Shell and Perl. Extensive knowledge for specification, validation and transformation using XMLXSDXLT and their associated tools. Experience of handling and manipulating binary data. Good knowledge of the testing process for a complex hardware and software system. Practical knowledge of the following will be a distinct advantage Experience with Meteorological data formats such as NetCDF, HDF, BUFR, GRIB. Good knowledge of standards, conventions and guidelines for the specification of metadata for Earth Observation data. Experience with using tools such as IDV, McIDASV, IDL, THREDDS. Experience in geospatial data formats such as GeoTiff, McIDAS. Knowledge of the SubVersion source code control systems. Knowledge of Software Development Environments such as the Eclipse. Knowledge of Google Web Toolkit GWT Development and usage experience in Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop. The working language is English. This is a permanent employment assignment starting in July 2015. Pactum have supplied professional recruitment services to clients throughout the UK and across continental Europe since 1988. We operate as a group of practices focussed onto specific markets and have been successfully recruiting for the Space sector since 2002.
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