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Short Term SW Management Support Officer for the Long Term Archive 6 months
2015-10-05 12:05:07| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Serco is a FTSE 250 international service company that improves the quality and efficiency of essential services that matter to millions of people around the world. The work we do for national and local governments involves us in the most important areas of public services, including science and defence. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. For our activities in EUMETSAT, we are currently looking for a Short Term Software Management Support Officer for the Long Term Archive. Tasks and Responsibilities As a member of the Generic and Systems Infrastructure Division GSI, the key person shall be involved in implementing improvements to the development environment for the EUMETSAT Data Centre Archive and will be integrated within the Data Services Engineering Team. The duties shall be to analyse, design, and implement appropriate software configuration management, to support continuous integration, testing and deployment of UMARF software. Particular focus for this assignment will be to modernise and improve the development and build processes by using modern tools and strategies. It is envisioned that this should be implemented on the Technical Compute Environment TCE. Particular the tasks will include, but not be limited to The migration of the subversion repository to the TCE. Build management o Improve the build processes with the introduction of continuous integration technologies. This will require some extensive rewriting of current build scripts. The following goals should be achieved o An automated build process o Continuous running of test cases were possible o Improved reportingrealtime notification of build failuretest failures etc Release management o Improve the current software package management and deployment o Enable releases to be easily and efficiently implemented, tested and deployed Simplification of the development environment o All prerequisites libraries, jar files, environmental variables etc, should be available from version control Advice, suggestions and introduction of tools, practices and strategies for the software configuration management. In the performance of these activities, the key person shall follow the relevant operations change control and maintenance procedures. Requirements In addition to having a University degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline, the key person must being able to work autonomous and have good analytical skills. The key person shall have skills and experience in the following mandatory areas minimum 5 years for each 1. System Development Maintenance Skills Experience of building complex software, in particular setting up a continuous integration environment. Experience of migrating and updating Sub Version repositories 2. Software Technology Skills Experience of source code control systems SubVersion configuration and administration Unix commands and shell scripting Advanced knowledge and experience of using ant Extensive experience of scripting languages Extensive experience with software package management Extensive experience and knowledge of the configuration and administration of continuous integration software e.g. Jenkins. The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the key person must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU nationals. Important Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. Data Protection By submitting a job application you agree to the storage of any personal data provided by you directly or collected from generally accessible sources in particular professional and other social media throughout the entire application process CV, references, letter of application, interviews as applicable. To facilitate subsequent contact for professional purposes only, you agree to your data being saved after the application process has ended. You may revoke your consent to this agreement at any time. The same shall also apply if you are contacted by SERCO GROUP regarding vacancies that match your existing profile. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in our corporate careers website httpwww.serco.comcareersindex.asp Position Short Term Software Management Support Officer for the Long Term Archive 6 months Reference G015225EUM Application closing date 191015 Start date ASAP
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