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Software Engineer, EUM13206829
2013-02-12 17:38:12| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Job Opportunity Software Engineers for the EPS Data and Product Processing Facilities, based at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany Serco is amongst the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies and has a global heritage in the Space business, operating for over 35 years Worldwide. Serco has a longstanding understanding of the space market and a worldwide client base providing operational and engineering support across International Organisations, Government Agencies, Defence, Industrial Partnerships and related Scientific Institutions. With over 1100 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of qualifications and skills, it is our track record in such a wide range of market sectors and geographies that allows us to share best practice, expertise and innovation in our business solutions today. Serco Europe employees have provided their skilled competence for various European space missions since the inception of a coordinated European space organisation. Our ongoing commitments within the industry cover Earth Observation, Meteorological Services, Space Science, Technology, Telecommunications and Human Spaceflight, as both an integrated services and managed space resources provider. At the heart of our approach is the recognition that a good business depends on good people. We ensure that we continue to have the people and expertise that we need to face both the challenges of today and those of tomorrow our people are our key assets. Staff are supported by local Country based offices We offer our staff a number of additional benefits and assistance Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU nationals. For our activities in EUMETSAT we are currently seeking two Software Engineer to support the EPS Data and Product Processing Facilities. You will be members of a multidisciplinary engineering team supporting operational and future programmes. One Engineer will focus more on the FEPPGF aspects, while the other will be more concentrating on the PGFPPF issues. Both engineers need to have a solid system engineering understanding. C is therefore mandatory. For the PPF support knowledge of C will be needed in addition. The Key Persons duties will include a range of tasks, from the support of the day to day operation and maintenance, the analysis, design, development and testing of the facilities which also includes the handling of anomalies, upgrades and configuration changes for these facilities. Tasks will also contain the settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures as well as the coordination with external providers of maintenance services. In support to operations, the Key Persons may also be required to provide on call support as part of a team of maintenance engineers. Typically the tasks will include 1. Contribute to the definition and design of architectures of data processing ground segments and their components, their interfaces, and the validation and verification methods. 2. Monitor the detailed design and implementation of new system software components by industrial contractors and perform the acceptance of externally developed components. Support the operations of existing data processing ground segments and their maintenance and evolution. This will also include 3.1 Upgrade software, including implementing and maintaining new algorithms and products for the EPS instrument suite, e.g. for ASCAT, ATOVS and AVHRR processing, including rationalising common data processing components such as software libraries to reduce cost. 3.2 Maintenance and development of the FEP and PGF software it should be noted that the first line maintenance is being performed by EUMETSAT in conjunction with the industrial contractor the second line maintenance is being performed by the industrial contractor under supervision and with support from EUMETSAT and it entails in particular Contribution to FEPPGF system design and reengineering Support to the development and implementation of FEP and PGF tools and script 4. Support to procurement activities for maintenance and evolution activities as described in point 3. 5. Perform routine tasks in operational systems under configuration control such as 5.1 Support to Configuration Management, building and distribution of FEPPGF software releases and patches 5.2 Support to the development, integration and configuration management of software developed by third parties, its installation, and configuration and testing 5.3 Anomaly investigations, documentation and classification. 5.4 Follow up of the delivery of SW resolutions for these anomalies 5.5 Perform SW testing in a structured approach to verify that delivered SW is fulfilling the requirements or to demonstrate that problems have been corrected. 5.6 Analysis of the maintenance requirements and identification, procurement or implementation of the tools required to fulfill them 5.7 Settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures, 5.8 Support to the procurement and installation of hardware and software, and the coordination with external providers of support services 5.9 Participation in technical meetings and formal reviews. The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for this position is English you must be able to work effectively in this language. Task As members of the SEP LEO Mission Data Processing Operational Applications maintenance team, the Key Persons shall support the maintenance and evolution of the EPS Ground Segment, specifically the FEP and PGF facilities and provide support to the development and integration of new PPF. The FEP and PGF application software is mainly developed in C and a good experience in C is therefore mandatory. For the PPF support knowledge of C will be needed in addition. The Key Persons duties will include a range of tasks, from the support of the day to day operation and maintenance, the analysis, design, development and testing of the facilities which also includes the handling of anomalies, upgrades and configuration changes for these facilities. Tasks will also contain the settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures as well as the coordination with external providers of maintenance services. In support to operations, the Key Persons may also be required to provide on call support as part of a team of maintenance engineers. Typically the tasks will include 1. Contribute to the definition and design of architectures of data processing ground segments and their components, their interfaces, and the validation and verification methods. 2. Monitor the detailed design and implementation of new system software components by industrial contractors and perform the acceptance of externally developed components. Support the operations of existing data processing ground segments and their maintenance and evolution. This will also include 3.1 Upgrade software, including implementing and maintaining new algorithms and products for the EPS instrument suite, e.g. for ASCAT, ATOVS and AVHRR processing, including rationalising common data processing components such as software libraries to reduce cost. 3.2 Maintenance and development of the FEP and PGF software it should be noted that the first line maintenance is being performed by EUMETSAT in conjunction with the industrial contractor the second line maintenance is being performed by the industrial contractor under supervision and with support from EUMETSAT and it entails in particular Contribution to FEPPGF system design and reengineering Support to the development and implementation of FEP and PGF tools and script 4. Support to procurement activities for maintenance and evolution activities as described in point 3. 5. Perform routine tasks in operational systems under configuration control such as 5.1 Support to Configuration Management, building and distribution of FEPPGF software releases and patches 5.2 Support to the development, integration and configuration management of software developed by third parties, its installation, and configuration and testing 5.3 Anomaly investigations, documentation and classification. 5.4 Follow up of the delivery of SW resolutions for these anomalies 5.5 Perform SW testing in a structured approach to verify that delivered SW is fulfilling the requirements or to demonstrate that problems have been corrected. 5.6 Analysis of the maintenance requirements and identification, procurement or implementation of the tools required to fulfill them 5.7 Settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures, 5.8 Support to the procurement and installation of hardware and software, and the coordination with external providers of support services 5.9 Participation in technical meetings and formal reviews. Qualifications and Requirements Applicants require University degree, in a relevant discipline, together with experience in SW development, configuration controlled software build environments, experience with the operation, maintenance or trouble shooting of large, complex, realtime data processing systems. You will have a minimum of 3 years work experience in UNIX application development and testing in C, C. You will possess very good communication, presentation and team working skills and be able to cope with very high workloads. An ability to adapt to a rapidly changing, often stressful environment and retain a system overview is also essential. Essential Knowledge and experience in the following areas is mandatory Experience of operating and maintaining software systems in a UNIX based environment specifically LINUX and AIX Software build environments and tools e.g. IBM XL C and GCC compilers, make, automake, autoconf, RPM Software debugging and profiling tools e.g. GDB, IBM Purify, Valgrind Source code control systems, preferably Subversion and CVS CC programming language experience in a UNIX based environment Knowledge of Scripting languages e.g. Perl, shell, TclTk, Python Additionally, fulfillment of at least one of the two following requirements is mandatory, either profile A Strong background in the design, development, integration and operationmaintenance of satellite instrument data processing systems in the ground segments of Satellite Earth Observation systems. Or profile B Competence in objectoriented software design and implementation in the context of satellite instrument data processing systems, including design for testing, unit test suite maintenance, build tools, repositories, debugging and profiling. Desirable Practical knowledge of as many as possible of the following areas will be an advantage Experience with satellite Earth observation processing systems especially experience in the areas of specification, design and implementation of large satellite instrumentrelated data processing systems andor subsystems. Background knowledge of satellite Earth observation systems, instrument measurement principles, data processing and applications, in either passive radiometryinterferometry or sounding or active radar remote sensing. Familiarity with data formats used, such as the Metop and NOAA global data formats, EPS native data format Networking technologies and tools Space Data Link Protocols, TCPIP, UDP multicast, PGM, FTP, Wireshark Knowledge of web technologies and programming Apache, CGI, JavaScript Performance analysis and improvement including Performance monitoring tools and techniques top, NMON, iostat, sar etc. in UNIX environments Knowledge of ECSS Standards, Quality Assurance and Configuration Management principles and applications Practical experience in objectoriented software design, implementation, and maintenance, including the use of UMLSysML based tools for supportingdocumenting the design, at least at the architectural level, Software Testing, automated testing, verification, validation Competence in the use of scripting languages e.g., Perl and highlevel languages e.g., Python Competence in the exploitation of modern hardware and operating systems at the application level e.g., multithreading, parallel programming, virtualization Analysis and processing of softwaregenerated reports and logfiles Very good technical writing skills, in particular in the area of formal technical documentation, e.g. design documentation, test procedures, maintenance procedures Application procedure If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply by either clicking on, or copying into your browser, the URL below. httpswww.amris.comsercorequirementdisplay.php?refSearchrequirementid39671 Position Software Engineers Reference EUM13206829 Application closing date 24032013
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