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Linux System Administration Engineer
2015-01-28 13:06:23| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Telespazio VEGA Deutschland has been supporting the European Space Industry for over 30 years, including ESA, DLR, EUMETSAT and CNES. This is an opportunity for a motivated and experienced engineer to work for our EUMETSAT customer within a new and interesting space mission. Sentinel3 is a Low Earth Orbiting mission in the context of the Copernicus Services set up by the European Commission. The first satellite, Sentinel3A, is expected to launch mid2015 with the second satellite Sentinel3B operating in tandem and due for launch 18 months later. EUMETSATs monitors and controls Sentinel 3 satellites and generates near realtime and offline products to support the marine user community. Telespazio VEGA offers a permanent position based in EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany with an expected starting date in May 2015. Application closing deadline is February 25th 2015. RESPONSIBILITIESDUTIES As a member of the Computer and Storage Management team, the Engineer shall provide support to Ground Segment Commissioning and Routine Operations. The duties range from the support to the operation of the Linuxbased ground segment facilities, to the analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance of distributed hardware and system software platforms. This includes the settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures, the support to the procurement of hardware and software, and the coordination with external providers of maintenance services. The Engineer shall perform the following tasks installation and configuration of operating system and other software, tuning of operating systems parameters to optimize performance analysis, planning and performance of HW and SW upgrades or reconfigurations, taking care of compatibility issues between subsystems monitoring of the system performance, investigation into HW and system SW problems and performance of the relevant corrective actions ensuring that in case of HW or system SW failures the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of backup procedures liaison with the external providers of HW and system SW maintenance for the request and follow up of maintenance interventions administration of user accounts support to SW development and maintenance in relation to the utilization of system resources implementation and maintenance of scripts andor procedures where applicable for the automated andor controlled execution of the above activities, generation or update of technical documentation in relation to system upgrades provision of standbyoncall support provision of support, as required, to critical operations. As an essential part of the tasks above, the Engineer is expected to generate and maintain documentation. This may comprise writing and reviewing requirement and design specifications, change proposals, preparing documents supporting procurements, reviewing data packages belonging to technical inspections and reviews, writing and reviewing IT architecture and design, writing design evaluation reports, writingreviewing reports, test reports and overall status reports. In the performance of the activities the key person shall apply the relevant change control and maintenance procedures. The tasks assigned to the Engineer will be agreed through dedicated workpackages with clear identification of activities and outputs expected. In the performance of these tasks, the key person shall apply the EUMETSA T configuration and change control procedures as well as the relevant system engineering standards, quality management procedures and maintenance procedures. QUALIFICATIONSEXPERIENCE University degree in relevant discipline at least 5 years experience of assessing and administrating computer systems and be very experienced in IT system design. The experience shall have been made in an operational or production environment, driven by high availability requirements. ESSENTIAL SKILLS Proven knowledge and handson experience with the following is mandatory at least 5 years experience in the administration and troubleshooting of distributed systems expert knowledge and a significant work experience ofLinux operating systems Redhat and SLES good experience in VMW are virtualization good IT system design skills good understanding of incident and problem management technical documentation skills experience in an operational or production environment, characterized by custom applications in addition to standard software, running both on the client and server side, and by high availability requirements. The Engineer shall be familiar, to the extent required by the performance of the above tasks, with as many as possible of the following skills and system software environments TCPIIP intemetworking and the related network protocols and applications, e.g. NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP, FTP high availability software like Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster or any other DESIRABLE SKILLS Experience in the installation, administration and troubleshooting on some of the following shall be considered as an advantage Dell I HP computers running Linux Solaris and MS Windows System, Administration RAID arrays EMC SAN Fabrics Brocade Backup and recovery systems It is an additional advantage if the key person can carry out basic hardware support like installing interface cards or physically setting up networks. ROLE COMPETENCY Teamwork Integrity Share expertise and experience with other team members provide crosstraining and support. Accept criticism positively and be willing to adapt and change habitual methods of working. Planning and Organisation Prepare in advance and in detail critical activities, to be shared for review and approval prior to the actual execution of the work. Coordinate and communicate activities with key stakeholders users, suppliers, QA, CM Problem Solving Innovation Take ownership of problems through to effective resolution. Develop initiatives to resolve underlying issues that go beyond the immediate problem. Communication Possess excellent verbal and written communications skills and be confident to deal with a wide variety of people and to influence at all levels. Have excellent presentation and training skills with the ability to deliver a message such that it generates learning and understanding. Customer Focus Orientation Value our customers, anticipate and understand their needs and request feedback, strive to achieve excellence and to improve customer satisfaction. Recognise and act expeditiously on opportunities to improve service, liaising with relevant internal teams to ensure tasks are acted upon. BENEFITS Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including 30 days holiday, generous training possibilities and Telespazio VEGA Deutschland pension scheme is offered to the successful candidate. APPLICATION You are looking for a challenging position in a very interesting, international environment? Then you should send your detailed application preferably online with your availability and current salary status.
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