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Earth Observation Data System Management DSM Engineer mwd
2020-12-23 12:11:26| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
We are the first choice European aerospace company for software centric engineering solutions. We combine 40 years of experience in a market, where trust and quality are needed. With more than 350 employees in Germany, we craft the future of aerospace and beyond together. Our staff plays a key role for our success through their qualifications, motivation, passion, different cultural backgrounds and their sense of collaboration in an open international environment living our values trust, integrity, participation and curiosity. We are committed to crafting a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We offer a wealth of benefits to support a balanced work life balance and encouraging career development. This position is based at ESOC in Darmstadt. It is fulltime and permanent and expected starting date will be around April 2021. We are looking forward to meeting you! ResponsibilitiesDuties We are supporting the European Space Agency with highly qualified services at the European Operations Control Centre ESOC in Darmstadt. For a new service position within the area of Earth Observation Data Systems we are searching for a Data System Management DSM engineer to complement our international service team! You will support and provide services related to Mission Data Systems MDS, which include Mission Control System, Mission Planning System, Operational Simulators, Service Provision Data Centre and Advanced Software Applications, whilst the required focus will be on Mission Control Systems. Among others, the activities include Development and Maintenance of MDS Mission Data Systems Specification and management of software requirements Contractual and technical preparation for new MDS projects Running MDS software development and maintenance projects Support the deployment, testing, configuration of MDS Support to Missions critical activities Organisation of software support SWS onsite environment preparation Act as a role of Software Coordinator in the Flight Control Team Support to missions during the whole lifetime Further tasks are Assume the data system architect role for special projects Support to study, innovation and standardisation Prepare proposals Run approved studies or innovation works Analyse root causes of issues and provide corrective actions Evaluate new tools and techniques to drive efficiencies Manage cloud infrastructure services and accounts Keep evolving system and application monitoring infrastructure Detailed information on the missions and the activities of ESOC can be found on www.esa.int QualificationsExperience University degree in a relevant engineering field, computer engineering, physics or equivalent with high grades. Essential Skills The ideal candidate we are looking for contributes to our service team with the following characteristics Proven expertise with ESOC Data System Infrastructure products e.g. MICONYS Software Suite, SCOS2000, EGSCC, EGOS MPS, SIMSAT Knowledge of applicable engineering and quality standards Experience in project management and software engineering A high sense of operational responsibility and good communication skills Aspiration to take operational responsibility in multidiscipline teams Ability to work independently, openness and reliability Capability to collaborate with several different areaspeople in ESOC Capability to establish and maintain good working relationship with all partners within ESOC and industry Proficiency in English, both in speech and writing Desirable Skills Additional desirable skills are Knowledge of ESOC operational environment Experience with CJava, knowledge of UnixLinux, Python and scripting languages Expertise with requirements and test management tools DOORS and HPQC Your Benefits of joining us By joining the Telespazio family, you will enjoy all the benefits of a competitive salary in a sustainable work environment, flexible working time models, diverse advancement and training possibilities for technical, language and soft skills, a generous holiday package as well as a company pension scheme. Furthermore, we support you with your relocation. Through our wide network, we can also support your partner in finding a job at your new work location. Application Are you equally inspired by our visions and dreams? Get in touch with us today and send us your application! Your HR Contact for this position is Raphael Rossato.
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Earth Observation Data System Manager
2020-12-21 10:12:19| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Position Reference 739 We are currently looking for an Earth Observation Data System Manager to work at our clients premises in the city of Darmstadt, Germany. The key person will be part of the ESA Mission Operations Data Systems Division which specifies, develops, implements and maintains all common technical infrastructure and missiondedicated data systems required for operations. This covers in particular mission control systems, mission planning systems, simulators, and new types of data processing systems as necessary. The Division delivers these systems to the users and provides them with appropriate support during the various missionproject phases. The Division leads European harmonisation efforts in its domain of competences and manages the Directorates standardisation programme. The Division is responsible for exploiting commonalities across missions whenever possible and to provide services across the Directorate for software engineering tooling. The Division is also responsible for the development and the maintenance of the infrastructure for the mission operations data systems in use at ESOC. This infrastructure is reused across multiple missions, lowering the total cost of ownership for ESOC for these facilities. This common infrastructure is reused by each mission to meet the majority of their requirements, leaving individual development teams to focus on minor adjustments or extensions to cover specific aspects. Tasks and Activities The scope of work will include Development and Maintenance of Mission Data Systems Specification and management of Software Requirements. Contractual and technical work for the start of a new MDS project Running the MDS software development and maintenance projects. Support the Management and perform ESOC internal activities related to MDS deployment, testing, configuration etc according to ESOC internal processes. Support to Missions critical activities Organisation of Software Support SWS onsite environment preparation. Act as a role of Software Coordinator in the FCT. Support to missions during the whole lifetime Review of MIRD and contribution to MIP. Definition of external and internal interfaces. Contribution to the SFIRD, GSSRD, GSSTP and review of SGICD. Support to Ground Segment Reviews. Support to regular progress meetings with Project and ESOC team. Support SVTSOVTE2E tests and in general FCT activity. Support mission closure and retirement of SW and HW items. Support to 3rd Party and Special Projects Support the ESA service manager in defining the technical and organisational setup of ESA service, including SLA and costing. Interact with ESA external 3rd party entities e.g. EUD, GSA, DLR, NASA, under agreement of TR. Support ESA from data systems perspective towards external entities, in particular to recommend agreement on technical and organisational interfaces. Coordinate the inhouse and industrial data systems team. Interact with companies of new member states in preparation process for new activities. Assume the data system architect role for special projects which are not based on reference architecture of ground segments for missions such as SSA, METERON, IAP. Contribute to bring OPSGD and Data Systems perspective in collaborative projects with other ESA entities, in the context of special projects and future missions e.g. NAV, TEC, HRE. Coordinate the inhouse developments of MDS for small mission. Support to study, innovation and standardisation Prepare proposals. Run approved studies or innovation works. Organise and coordinate joint projects with other agencies in the context of standardisation e.g. interoperability testing, prototyping. Support ESA as a member of international Standardisation working groups. Infrastructure and environment Automating CICD processes. Providing training in usage of CICD, container orchestration, and DevOps tools. Develop release approach using automated, containerized deployment techniques. Develop automation scripts, daemons, and APIs to reduce manual steps. Analyse root causes of issues and provide corrective actions. Evaluate new tools and techniques to drive efficiencies. Manage Cloud infrastructure services and accounts. Keep evolving system and application monitoring infrastructure. Other tasks Support tasks at division level. Support Quality Management and actively contribute to improve ESOC internal processes and tools. Support to Infrastructure data systems activities. Skills and Experience The following skills and experience are mandatory University degree or equivalent in software engineering. Knowledge of ESOC infrastructure e.g. Scos2000, SIMSAT, Egos MPS, EGSCC and operational environment. Knowledge of Spacecraft. Knowledge of Engineering and Quality Standards. Requirements management knowledge of tools, e.g. doors. Test management knowledge of tools, e.g. HPQC. Previous experience with development and maintenance of big software projects. Capability to work autonomously and at the same time be able to work effectively as part of a team. Very good interpersonal and communication and skills and an ability to apply these to establish and maintain good working relationships with Industry and FCT. Negotiation capabilities. Ability to capture the bigger picture and the system context. Capability of adapting to circumstances. Openness and reliability. Fluency in English, both written and spoken. How to Apply Looking to take your career to the next level? Interested applicants should submit their CV and Cover Letter to RHEAs Recruitment team at careersrheagroup.com no later than 01022021. Preference will be given to candidates eligible for an EU or national personal security clearance at the level of CONFIDENTIAL or above.
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Earth Observation Software Architect
2020-12-18 13:14:08| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Summary We are looking for an Earth Observation EO Software Architect to support pivotal project work over the coming months and years, as well as offering the chance to support with bid and proposal writing to shape future projects. Telespazio UK is part of a company containing over 2500 people working in the growing field of Space Systems and operations and GeoInformation. Telespazio is majority owned by Leonardo, one of the UKs largest defence, aerospace and security companies. Telespazio is looking to fill a diverse and critical role to support our broad Space systems architecture work covering missions across UK and European, in civil and defence. Duties Responsibilities Software Architect System Design Authority responsible for the design of EO data storage, processing and exploitation systems Plan and execute Integration and Test campaigns Production of documents technical and also development plans Preparation and participation in technical reviews Preparation of proposals to win new work including Understanding of the technical requirements and the context within the overall project scope. Specification of the solution, trading off alternatives Writing clear, concise, technical proposals to express the solution and its benefits to the client Software Development On occasion the role can require handson software development support to projects e.g. coding of critical areas, code review, prototypingvalidating approaches frameworks to be adopted. Qualifications Experience University Bachelors Degree in Software Engineering or related discipline with software modules. The candidate should also have around 10 years commercial experience of software development, preferably in a geospatial domain Essential Skills Requirements analysis Software system design using modern architectures Configuration management Git source code control Agile software development methodology Linux development Resource Oriented Architecture Development REST User Identification, Authentication and Authorisation e.g. SAML, OAUTH, OIDC Continuous integrationdeployment environments e.g. Jenkins Virtualisation cloud based computing Containers and Orchestration e.g. DockerKubernetes Desirable Skills Knowledge of earth observation data types, exploitation platforms and processing Knowledge of OGC Standards e.g. WPS, WMS, WFS, WCS Technical proposal writing Integration and Test Big Data Processing Frameworks e.g. Hadoop Big Data Databases e.g. HDFS, other nonSQL Scripting e.g. shell, perl, python Qualities Selfstarter Strong written and oral communication Team player, open and keen to contribute Conscientious, hard working Attention to detail
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Earth Observation System Engineer
2020-10-06 11:09:58| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Summary An opportunity for an experienced Earth Observation mission or Systems engineer, to work on customer premises for Telespazio VEGA UK. Objective To provide system engineering support to the Future Missions and Instruments Division for Mission and System Studies, with ESA Earth Observation section. Responsibilities Duties The successful candidate will be expected to Support the definition and monitoring of activities for the preparation of future ESA Earth Observation EO missions, in particular for Copernicus Sentinels, new Earth ExplorerEarth Watch missions, Opportunity Missions, Fsats and Scout missions and operational meteorology missions Provide system engineering support to InCubed missions Review Technical Notes and actively participate to progress meetings and reviews related to EO future mission and system studies Support elaboration of SoWs, system requirements documents SRD and other applicable and reference documents for future mission and system studies Contributing to ensure the technical coherency of the system design of future EO missions, including, as needed, functional analysis and design, overall system concept, system level budgets, system performance analyses, definition of spacecraft andor payload subsystems and related data processing, and interfaces between payloadplatform and launcher and ground segment Perform internal studies for future EO missions, in particular to assess the results of external activities or to prepare the formulation of new mission concepts, including preliminary sizing of platformpayload, first estimation of the system engineering and performance budgets, with a focus on the space segment and its interfaces with the launcher and the ground segment Perform internal studies to evaluate the complementarity between ESA EO future missions and other missions existing or planned by other space organizations, including mission analysis and assessment of potential synergy or overlap of mission capabilities. Support work in the area of modelling of system or subsystem aspects for endtoend performance simulation and system engineering tools for future EO missions. Qualifications Experience MSc, or equivalent qualification, in a relevant technical or scientific discipline Essential Skills At least 4 years of relevant work experience, covering Good general knowledge of ESA Earth Observation missions Strong and demonstrated background in space system engineering, mission analysis and small platform sizing, in particular for Earth Observation missions Experience in space projects, preferably in the Earth Observation field andor in preparatory activities phase 0 and A Experience with simulation tools Matlab or Python, MS Excel with VBA Earth Observation remote sensing techniques Qualities Teamwork Good communication and technical writing skills with capabilities to synthesize different sources of information Good organization skills Methodical and proactive, with initiative and capability to work autonomously Problemsolving and creativityoriented attitude Proficiency in written and spoken English
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Earth Observation System Engineer
2020-09-25 14:11:12| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
We are looking for an Earth Observation System Engineer E3 to join our Modis Aerospace team, working onsite at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. Modis Aerospace is a specialized Engineering consultancy with more than 30 years experience providing aerospace Engineers to our key partners in The Netherlands. Modis is a longstanding business partner of the European Space Agency ESA, with more than 120 employees recruited from across Europe currently supporting ESAs activities. Specific tasks to be performed The scope of this position is the provision of system engineering support to the Future Missions and Instruments Division EOP8M for Mission and System Studies, which mainly consists of the following Support the definition and monitoring of activities for the preparation of future ESA Earth Observation EO missions, in particular for Copernicus Sentinels, new Earth ExplorerEarth Watch missions, Opportunity Missions, Fsats and Scout missions and operational meteorology missions Provide system engineering support to InCubed missions Review Technical Notes and actively participate to progress meetings and reviews related to EO future mission and system studies Support elaboration of SoWs, system requirements documents SRD and other applicable and reference documents for future mission and system studies Contributing to ensure the technical coherency of the system design of future EO missions, including, as needed, functional analysis and design, overall system concept, system level budgets, system performance analyses, definition of spacecraft andor payload subsystems and related data processing, and interfaces between payloadplatform and launcher and ground segment Perform internal studies for future EO missions, in particular to assess the results of external activities or to prepare the formulation of new mission concepts, including preliminary sizing of platformpayload, first estimation of the system engineering and performance budgets, with a focus on the space segment and its interfaces with the launcher and the ground segment Perform internal studies to evaluate the complementarity between ESA EO future missions and other missions existing or planned by other space organizations, including mission analysis and assessment of potential synergy or overlap of mission capabilities. Support work in the area of modelling of system or subsystem aspects for endtoend performance simulation and system engineering tools for future EO missions. To successfully perform the above mentioned tasks, the following background experience is required At least Master level or equivalent in a relevant technical or scientific discipline e.g. Space system engineering. Good general knowledge of ESA Earth Observation missions. Strong and demonstrated background in space system engineering and mission analysis, in particular for Earth Observation missions. Experience in space projects, preferably in the Earth Observation field andor in preparatory activities phase 0 and A. Experience with simulation tools Matlab or Python, MS Excel with VBA. Teamwork. Good communication and technical writing skills with capabilities to synthesize. Good organization skills. Methodical and proactive, with initiative and capability to work autonomously. Problemsolving and creativityoriented attitude. Proficiency in written and spoken English Experience in space system design, mission analysis and small platform sizing is an asset. Knowledge of Earth Observation remote sensing techniques is an asset. Experience with STK is an asset. About ESAESTEC The European Space Agency ESA has sites in several European countries. The European Space Research and Technology Centre ESTEC is the largest site and the technical heart of ESA. This nursery of European space activities is located in Noordwijk, Netherlands. At ESTEC, about 2500 engineers, technicians and scientists work handson with mission design, spacecraft and space technology. Almost all ESA projects except launchers are managed from ESTEC. In Noordwijk, people work on science missions, manned space missions, Earth observation, telecommunications and navigation satellites. ESTEC provides extensive testing facilities to verify the proper operation of spacecraft, such as the Large Space Simulator LSS, acoustic and electromagnetic testing bays, multiaxis vibration tables and the ESA Propulsion Laboratory EPL. Please send your CV to recruitmentaerospacemodis.com before 16102020
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