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XMMNewton System Software Engineer SCJ 2593

2013-01-31 18:38:08| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Summary An experienced System and Software Engineer with experience of space astronomy missions. Objective An exciting opportunity to support XMMNewton Science Operations, software maintenance of the Science Operations Control System, data processing systems coordination and operations support. Responsibilities Duties The main activities of this service position should include but are not limited to Software maintenance of the XSCS XMMNewton SOC Control System Subsystems. XSCS subsystems comprise SCOS 2000 based downlink subsystems PMS, ODS and QLA Non SCOS 2000 based uplink subsystems HRPSXRPSPHS SGS Non SCOS 2000 based service subsystems AMS, XFTS and DTS Migration of the XSCS subsystems to Solaris Virtual Machines Migration of the Solaris8 based subsystems to Solaris10 based Virtual Machines Data Processing of the XMMNewton Data, including Raw TM handling and maintenance, including TCX generation and Long Term Archive Trend Analysis ODF generation and supervision Qcheck support and maintenance with evaluation of results Supervision of ODF Reprocessing. In general, support and coordination of overall Science Products Generation. Operations Support, including Support to the Instrument Operations Manager Support of activities related to routine payload operations preparation, execution and evaluation Support to the On Board Instrument Software activities Quality Assurance, including Configuration Control support activities and Documentation Management CCB issues handling Maintenance tasks will include both first and second line maintenance. The incumbent holder will keep a strong interaction with the XSCS users on what concerns the daily operations of the XSCS systems. Maintenance activities include the setup and run support to the several chains where XSCS is installed Operational, Reprocessing, Validation, Development and AO Chains. Qualifications Experience Experience with ESAs operational systems SCOS is highly desirable Proven experience in the development andor maintenance of space observatory science control systems is an advantage. The candidate should be open minded and be able to understand the different subsystems as a whole integrated systems. Good system engineering practices Proven experience on data processing systems for space astronomy missions Experience with Data Base management tools mostly ORACLE and protocols for information access from SOC systems Good knowledge of UNIX mostly Solaris and Virtual Operating systems Experience with the management of TM and subproducts trend analysis, long term archive Good command of modern programming languages CC, Perl, Tcl, Fortran, University degree or equivalent in computer science or related fields. Background in a scientific discipline is desirable Essential Skills Be willing to operate in an international team environment Good interpersonal and communication skills Qualities Candidates should be systemminded, flexible and able to work as a member of a small interdisciplinary team Be comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English, one of the official languages of ESA Further Details All roles within Telespazio VEGA have a defined closing date, however if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed early. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Closing Date for applications is Thursday 21 February 2013 Location of the position is ESAC, Madrid Benefits Competitive salary Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks.

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CDF System and Software Engineer SCJ 2592

2013-01-25 13:41:01| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Summary A degree educated or equivalent systems software engineer with experience of the technical supervision of space projects. Objective To support the Head of the Tertiary Education Unit, for the coordination of education satellite projects throughout all phases of their lifecycle. Responsibilities Duties Satellite System Engineer in the Systems and Cost Engineering Division with first affectation to the Tertiary Education Unit of the ESA Education and Knowledge Management Office. The postholder will report to the Head of the Tertiary Education Unit, and will support him for the coordination of education satellite projects throughout all phases of their lifecycle. The current education satellite projects include the European Student Earth Orbiter ESEO and CubeSats. Specifically, the tasks of the postholder will include coordinate the involved project teams which include space engineering professionals, university staff, and university students provide system engineering support to the project teams monitor the technical baseline of the relevant projects, and review the project documentation to ensure compliance with requirements, applicable standards, and good space engineering practice support and review the satellite AIV Assembly, Integration and Verification campaigns to be performed at the ESTEC test facilities, or at facilities located elsewhere, and the launch interfacing and campaigns to be supported also at the launch site, if needed support the preparation and conduct of project meetings, project reviews, test campaigns, and of workshops or conferences liaise with the Young Graduate Trainees involved in the satellite projects of the Education Office, and support the Head of the Tertiary Education Unit for their coordination liaise with the colleagues of the Education Office in charge of Outreach coordination, to the scope of supporting the outreach initiatives on the ESA education satellites offer support if requested by the Head of the Tertiary education Unit to other tertiary education projects Qualifications Experience Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant science or engineering field Candidates must demonstrate good system engineering skills in space systems Able to coordinate effectively work contributions from several different parties, and shall possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders ESA, industry, academia and students Good previous experience in the technical supervision of space projects is required Direct experience with small satellite systems development, testing, and mission operations would be an asset Essential Skills Be well organized and show a good sense of initiative Further Details All roles within Telespazio VEGA have a defined closing date, however if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed early. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. httpwww.telespaziovega.comcareersvacanciesspacevacanciesj2592.aspx Closing Date for applications is Thursday 14 February 2013 Location of the position is Noordwijk Benefits Competitive salary package Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks.

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Computer Systems Support Engineer SCJ 2589

2013-01-18 17:39:08| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Summary An experienced Computer Systems Support Engineer. Objective To provide computer support to all science operations centres and science ground segments located at ESAC, either in development or in operational phase. Responsibilities Duties Specific tasks include UNIX LINUX and SOLARIS, Macintosh and PC System Management Installation, configuration, integration, and setting up of new machines with appropriate operating systems and layered software. Administration and operation management of computer systems Installation and configuration of new disks and other devices and new users accounts User support mainly scientists and engineers Handle the mail aliases and mail distribution list Handlingcheckingmodifying all backups Definition, implementation and maintenance of computer operators procedures Issues of documentation and technical reports GRID related activities Installation, configuration, integration, operations, maintenance and upgrade of Globus and Glite GRID middleware infrastructure Support users to adapt their computing tasks to the GRID infrastructure Cloud related activities Installation, configuration, integration, operations, maintenance and upgrade of Eucalyptus Cloud middleware Knowledge of other Cloud middleware is an asset Contact with hardware and software suppliers Definition of hardwaresoftware needs and quotation requests for new purchases and maintenance contracts Logging hardware incidents calls and following the call history Assisting technician when on site Others Installation and maintenance of storage SANNAS infrastructure Installation and maintenance of Virtual Machines Installation and maintenance of Cloud computing infrastructure Installation and maintenance of computer clusters Interface with external ESA corporate informatics infrastructure service providers Design of network setup requirements and follow up of implementation Request of new network connections Installation and maintenance of printers, scanners etc Qualifications Experience University degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related fields Specific knowledge is required in the following areas GRID technology Globus, Glite Cloud computing Storage SANNAS technologies Linux RedHat system management Virtualization technologies PC Windows XP and Macintosh system management Scientific user computer support Network design and requirements Essential Skills The key person should have a working knowledge of English, both spoken and written. Further Details All roles within Telespazio VEGA Ltd are advertised for a minimum of one month to ensure maximum visibility to potential candidates. However, if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Closing Date for applications is Friday 8th February Location of the position is Madrid, Spain Benefits Competitive salary Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks.

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Gaia Science JAVA Software Engineer SCJ 2588

2013-01-18 17:39:08| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Summary An experienced JAVA software engineer to support Gaia Science Operations at ESAC. Objective An exciting opportunity to work at ESAC, supporting, maintaining and testing systems for the Gaia mission. Responsibilities Duties The Gaia mission is planning to map to microarcsecond accuracy 1 of the stellar population of our galaxy that is around one thousand million objects. Each object will be seen about 100 times over the fiveyear mission. The data reduction of the 100 Terabytes of downlinked data is estimated to require a Petabyte storage system. The processing will be community wide effort performed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium DPAC in which ESAC plays a coordination role. The ESAC team is forming Gaias Science Operations Centre SOC and is heavily involved in DPAC especially in the overall architecture and the core processing. The processing is distributed over five locations and ESAC will form the hub for data exchange via the Main Database. This main database will form the input for all processing and will be augmented with the output of all processing to arrive at a new version. Core processing including initial data treatment and the Astrometric Global Iterative Solution AGIS to solve the many unknown astrometric parameters The production of processing software for Gaia Maintain core software as well as receiving packages from external entities to be integrated and run in SOC The selected person must be willing to work in a team environment and to travel Qualifications Experience The chosen language for the Gaia Core processing is Java. The position requires strong Java skills and operational experience. ECSS standards for software development JDK 1.6 1.7 OO design Database interaction using JDBC Distributed processing JUnit Eclipse Ant Subversion Large Databasesdata processing 1TB University degree or equivalent in computer science or related fields Basic educational or workacquired knowledge of astronomyphysics and standard numerical methods and techniques would be a strong asset Scientific background is a strong advantage The candidate should have a good grasp of ECSS standards and be aware of required documentation for a large project In addition knowledge of the following would be beneficial LaTeX Experience working with large data volumes, ICDs, data dictionaries would be an asset Essential Skills Experience interacting with the science community would be an advantage. The ability to analyse problems and provide solutions efficiently in a busy environment while adhering to formal procedures, and to be proactive, are important assets. The incumbent should be comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English, one of the official languages of ESA. Further Details All roles within Telespazio VEGA have a defined closing date, however if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed early. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Closing Date for applications is Friday 8 February 2013 Location of the position is Villafrance del Castillo, Madrid Benefits Competitive salary Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks.

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Senior Flight Operations Engineer SCJ 2585

2013-01-09 16:39:36| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Summary A Senior Flight Operations Engineer with experience of operations for Eurostar 3000based platforms Objective To support operations of a fleet of geostationary spacecraft, based in the United Arab Emirates Responsibilities Duties Support operations of, and lead technical activities for geostationary spacecraft Work onsite at customer operations facility in UAE Development review of new operational procedures General engineering support to operations preparation Participation in training and rehearsals for major activities Checking and development of Flight Operations System configuration Qualifications Experience Degree or similar in technical subject applicable to Spacecraft Operations Engineering e.g. Physics, Engineering, Mathematics. Prior experience of operating Eurostar 3000 spacecraft essential Experience of I4S Storm satellite control system Experience of OPSWARE tool set Essential Skills Problem solving Numeracy Procedurebased spacecraft operations Knowledge of satellite design and orbital mechanics Team working Good written and verbal communication Good relationship management skills Desirable Skills Good IT skills Planning and resource management Qualities Strongly motivated and proactive Attention to detail Processbased approach Independent selfstarter able to relocate to a foreign country Further Details All roles within Telespazio VEGA have a defined closing date, however if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed early. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Closing Date for applications is Friday 1st March Location of the position is Abu Dhabi, UAE Benefits Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including holiday, life assurance and a contributory pension scheme are offered to the successful candidate Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks.

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