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Data Centre Operations Engineer MW
2015-03-25 18:05:38| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
With 1.700 employees worldwide, the CS Group is a leading IT company in France and in Germany, and a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems. It has now been over 30 years that comprehensive CS solutions for space systems and applications, both on the ground and in space, have been part and parcel of this odyssey. Our German activities grow at fast pace and to face our costumers high level expectations and needs, we are looking for talented profiles having relevant experience in Space systems and applications. The engineer shall work in the Data Centre Operations team, supporting routine operations of the Data Centre. The Data Centre Operations team is part of the User Services and Climate Division in the EUMETSAT Operations and Services to Users Department. It 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 are the main areas of work the key person will be involved in. PROFILE In addition to having a university degree or equivalent in Software Engineering or a relevant engineering science discipline with a focus on data processing and handling, the key person must have excellent team working skills, being able to work autonomously and have good analytical skills. The variety of the tasks and the scope of the systems to be supported require also very good communication, presentation skills combined with the ability to perform under high workloads. The key person shall have skills and experience in the following mandatory areas minimum 3 years for each 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. Fluency in English is mandatory and a working knowledge of French would be an advantage, together with good communication skills. TASKS The key person shall support the Data Centre Operations team and will report to the Data Centre Operations Engineer. The main tasks of the key person are Provision of support to the daily monitoring of the Data Centre, and analysis and reporting of operational anomalies. Provision of support to the user queries received by the user service helpdesk regarding Data Centre services. Provision of support to the test automation of the Data Centre upgrades. Support to the development of Data Centre tools for monitoring, for reporting and to improve the usability of Data Centre services. Provision of support to prototyping concepts for evolving the Data Centre services to support current and future EUMETSAT programmes. Provision of support to the coordination of reprocessing activities. Provision of support to metadata content and their specification in Data Centre products. Preparation and maintenance of Data Centre documentation such as operational procedures and service guides for users. How to apply Please consider the following points before applying Please submit your complete application documents in English. An attached cover letter should mention your availability and salary expectations. Interested applicants should submit their CV to marina.ludwigcssystems.de with CC to francoisxavier.laffontcs.fr with the job title. Due to new work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Closing date 26 April 2015 Start July 2015
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