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Ground Segment Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer
2016-08-03 11:04:45| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving all ESA sites and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations. Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on innovation. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For the location in Darmstadt Germany we are looking for a Sentinel3 Ground Segment Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer at EUMETSAT. Tasks The areas of responsibility of this position cover both the EUMETSAT operational building infrastructure aspects operational rooms, power, cooling, etc ... and the Storage Network Infrastructure SNI for Data protection aspects. The Storage Network Infrastructure provides a backbone of storage services to all EUMETSAT programs unified under a management framework. It satisfies storage service requirements in terms of size, performance, redundancy, availability, security, supports meteorological archive, data protection and disaster recovery. As a support to the GSI IME team, the Ground Segment Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer shall provide support to the Copernicus Sentinel3 operational support and maintenance of the Copernicus Sentinel3 infrastructure. The duties range from the installation, testing, maintenance and operational support of the missionspecific and MME infrastructure. This may include the settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures, the support to the procurement of hardware and software, and the coordination with external service providers. In the performance of these tasks, the consultant shall apply the EUMETSAT configuration and change control procedures as well as the relevant system engineering standards, quality management procedures and maintenance procedures. The consultant is expected to support the writing and reviewing of the requirement specifications and change proposals, to support the preparation of procurements, to participate in technical inspections and reviews, to support the documentation of the ground segment infrastructure system design, to contribute to the writing of evaluation reports, review reports, test reports and overall status reports and to support the change Management procedures related to Copernicus Sentinel3 and MME infrastructure. The tasks of the Consultant will include Generate and maintain installation documentation, including layout diagrams, Infrastructure Interface Control Documents, cabling database, network diagrams using the Struxurware data center management and iPatch cabling management tools Contribute to the definition of the layouts in the operational rooms Perform the physical installation of infrastructure for the S3 equipment installation, such as cables, interface panels, network devices, consoles, racks and furniture. Support the evaluation of compatibility of Data protection solution proposed by the S3 programme with the existing SNI operational system Liaison with the external providers of SNI HW and SW maintenance for the request and follow up of maintenance interventions Maintain the S3 Requirements Specifications on Operational Infrastructure, covering the building infrastructure and SNI for Data protection aspects Participation in any necessary meetings and reviews Provision of support, as required, to critical operations during system commissioning operations. Perform any task as directed by the GSI IME Manager Essential requirements In addition ofhaving a university degree or equivalent working experience, the consultant shall have at least 5 years working experience in the field of building infrastructure and data protection Knowledge and handson experience with the following is mandatory Server rooms layout design, with optimal occupation of space for racks and efficient usage of resources power and cooling Interrooms and interbuildings data connection techniques Racks installation, cable laying and equipment installation and testing Electrical power distribution infrastructure Technical Drawing software packages i.e. MS Visio Operation of backup and recovery solutions Development and maintenance of complex operational ground systems, preferably in the area of 247 operational remote sensing satellites Experience of ground segments which are designed and developed taking advantage by the reuse of existing generic infrastructure and functional elements System and Interfaces Engineering I AIT experience for the development of major upgrades I new ground systems in a 247 operational environment. Working experience with Struxureware DCIM tool and iPatch cable management tool Desirable requirements Experience in the administration and troubleshooting on some of the following shall be considered as an advantage Networking Communications Satellite Monitoring and Control systems Data dissemination and archiving Near RealTime Data Processing, Other Information Start date is October 2016 Fluency in English is mandatory To apply please visit www.scisys.despacejobs
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