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Support to BepiColombo Science Operations
2015-01-15 11:06:06| 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 ESAC, we are currently looking for Support to BepiColombo Science Operations. Tasks and Responsibilities The main tasks will be SW development for the implementation of the Data Processing Subsystem DPS within the BepiColombo Science Control System at the Science Ground Segment, as well as imply integration, operation and maintenance of the Data Processing infrastructure, components and tools. As part of the service the following main activities will have to be carried out develop and maintain the BepiColombo Data Processing System DPS. The DPS activities will comprise the implementation of the pipelines under SGS development responsibility, and the integration within the BSCS of the pipelines developed and delivered to SGS by the different instrument teams. The DPS activities will also include the development and implementation of the data processing monitoring and control facilities and the different data transfer mechanisms. participate in the development and maintenance of the other subsystems of the BSCS. These subsystems cover the acquisition of data from ESOC OGS, the science planning and the quality control, and the interfaces for data ingestion and retrieval tofrom the BepiColombo Archive Core System BACS. contribute to the maintenance of the already deployed BSCS SW contribute to the maintenance operation of the BSCS software development environment Requirements The Key Person should possess a university background in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in general software development and software engineering with good understanding of space operations. In particular, possess the following experience, knowledge and proficiency in Programming languages Java, IDL and C Scripting in Unix environments Graphical User Interface GUI development and maintenance Development of data structures, accessing them locally and from relational databases Administration of relational Databases, MySQL and ORACLE Provision and maintenance of tests harnesses Development of Web Applications, experience with Apache Tomcat technologies Knowledge of XML and experience in mapping XML files to Java Objects and viceversa is an advantage Knowledge of inter process communication is an advantage Knowledge of scientific processing and data analysis is an advantage Science mission planning and instrument commanding is an advantage Experience with configuration and version control tools, SVN, GIT Experience with software building tools MAVEN, Hudson, Jenkins ECSS standards for software development ECSS Packet Utilization Standard PUS services SCOS2000 Mission Information Base MIB structures. The Key Person should possess good communications skills. Be able to document their work, willing to travel regularly to ESA establishments andor Instrument teams institutes. Comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English a high level of written and spoken English is essential. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Spain or be EU nationals. 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. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. 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 If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position Support to BepiColombo Science Operations Reference RTCSREODC090 Application closing date 03.02.2015 Start date March 2015 If you are not yet registered with Serco we advise you to register your details by adding your details and attaching your CV via httpswww.amris.comsercoalertssignupform.php For additional information about Serco Group please consult our website www.serco.com For additional information about Serco Europe please consult our website www.serco.comeurope For additional information about ESAC, please consult httpwww.esa.intAboutUsESAC
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