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Senior Mission Control System Engineer
2015-01-29 15:06:28| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
RHEA is currently recruiting a Senior Mission Control System Engineer to support the Copernicus programme at our clients premises in Darmstadt, Germany. Tasks and Activities The scope of work will include Reengineering activities analysis of the porting of some subsystems to stateoftheart technologies, tradeoff studies of various technologies, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Evolutions and changes generation andor analysis of userdriven and maintenance driven software requirements, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes. Maintenance test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test procedures at software facility level and at system level. Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts I tools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing. Analysis and implementation of mechanisms or tools allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the application software. Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, delivery acceptance and installation onsite. This activity includes the technical coordination of the production by an external contractor of new releases or patches of the application software, liaison with the EUMETSAT operational users, participation to technical reviews, participation to infactory at contractor premises acceptance testing campaigns and coordination of the installation of the releases or patches onsite at EUMETSAT. Execution and coordination of software verification and nonregression testing campaigns. This activity includes preparation of test data, rwming the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, analysis of results and troubleshooting of problems. Software user support software support to the endusers of the application software. Ensure operations continuity by provision of oncall services and software support to operations. Training prepare and provide training covering usage and maintenance aspects of the application software. Documentation generation and updates of technical documents. Meeting participation participation to technical, progress and team meetings as needed and requested. Routine reporting preparation and production of routine reports as necessary. Technical point of contact for maintenance contractors acting as point of contact with the contractor for technical discussions, review of technical documentation from the contractor, organizing periodical technical meetings with the contractor. Skills and Experience The following skills and experience are mandatory University degree in a relevant engineering discipline with skills and experience in software maintenance, evolution and testing Minimum 5 years experience in software maintenance and evolution of Satellite Mission Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAESOC. In particular experience in all the following MICONYS components is considered mandatory SCOS2000, SLE API, F ARC, PARC and NIS. Knowledge and understanding with actual working experience of space related standards ECSS and CCSDS concerning spacetoground interfaces and applicable to Satellite Mission Control Systems such as ECSS Packet Utilisation Standard PUS, CCSDS Space Packet Protocol SPP and CCSDS Space Link Extension Protocol SLE. Extensive experience in the full cycle of development of application software, preferably for Satellite Mission Control Systems, following formal software engineering processes. Experience in corrective maintenance, integration and verification testing activities of application software for Satellite Mission Control Systems following formal software engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports and anomaly tracking, investigation, correction and testing. Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. Extensive experience in developing and maintaining software applications using Java and C programming languages under UNIX operating systems. Experience in developing and maintaining software applications using objectoriented technologies, Unified Modelling Language UML for software design and CASE design tools. The following skills would be highly desirable Experience with the following list ofMICONYS components DABYS, EDDS, GFTS, MATIS, SFT and SMF. Experience with Mission Control Systems for LEO spacecraft. Knowledge of Flight Dynamics Systems. Knowledge of Mission Planning Systems. Experience with Satellite Simulators. Experience with software support to operations for Satellite Mission Control Systems. IBM DOORS requirement management tool. Experience in version Control Systems CVS and SVN. Linux Operating System. Experience in developing and maintaining software applications using ODBCJDBC bridges and programmatic interfaces to MySQL RDBMS. Data model design for RDBMS. Administration ofMySQL RDBMS. Interprocess communication mechanisms, in particular TCPIP and CORBA standards. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSL T and XPath. Eclipse Rich Client Platform applications development and maintenance. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Experience with static and dynamic software analysis tools in support to testing and troubleshooting. How to Apply Looking to take your career to the next level? Interested applicants should submit their CV and Cover Letter to RHEAs Recruitment team at careersrheagroup.com no later than 23022015. Preference will be given to candidates eligible for an EU or national personal security clearance at the level of SECRET or above. About RHEA RHEA is a leading engineering consultancy firm with demonstrated expertise in space, system and secure software solutions. We attract skilled engineers, scientists and management professionals and offer a range of exciting career paths working alongside clients such as the European Space Agency, the European GNSS Agency, EUMETSAT, NATO and Airbus Defence Space.
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