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Support to Solar Orbiter Science Operations RTCSREODS102
2015-01-21 12:06:27| 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 a Support to Solar Orbiter Science Operations. Tasks and Responsibilities Free interaction is expected with the members of the Solar Orbiter Science Operations Working Group SOWG and with software engineers in the Principal Investigator teams. Frequent interactions are expected to take place with the SOC manager, the SOC team members and within the team of other service providers working on Solar Orbiter. Also, frequent interactions are expected to take place with the Computers Support Group and the Science Archives Team at ESAC. Interactions with the general international community of astronomersusers are also expected via workshops and the helpdesk. Specific Service tasks Contribute to procedure writing and the implementation of those procedures Follow procedures and operate Solar Orbiter SOC systems Test SOC systems for the daily processing of Solar Orbiter data Test SOC systems for the generation of Solar Orbiter payload operations requests Further test and scale SOC products such as MDB Participate in the optimisation of software processing Gather operational constraints for software running at SOC Interact appropriately with and support the providers of all software SOC systems Interact appropriately with the users of Solar Orbiter data products Assist in automation of SOC procedures Contribute to the maintenance of the overall system, including configuration control and versioning Provide support for testing, particularly for EndtoEnd E2E and operational rehearsal campaigns Report on operational activities including the gathering and presentation of processing summary statistics. Requirements A graduate degree Masters or Ph.D. in a relevant subject area is required. Preferred experience Past scientific solar or heliospheric instrumentation or spacecraft support with a major internations space or groundbased observatory Support to the professional solar and heliospheric scientific community for a spacebased mission Use of spacebased scientific data in support of science research ECSS standards for software development Interfacing with RDBMS Testing environments and tools Configuration management tools. 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 Solar Orbiter Science Operations Reference RTCSREODS102 Application closing date 11.02.2015 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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