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Application Software Engineering Support
2013-08-23 16:36:41| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
As a member of the Computer Systems Management CSM team, the Key person shall provide support to the development and maintenance of the TCE. The duties range from maintaining and creating software packages that are installed on the TCE over advice and support for programmers working with the TCE to the creation of new software that is needed to support ongoing developments. This also includes the settingup and implementation of best practices for programming and the definition of the future TCE design in close cooperation with the TCE system administrators The Key person shall perform the following tasks Maintenance and development of bespoke and COTS software packages Support of programmers in the area of system programming and interface definition Design and implementation of new software packages that are needed to support ongoing projects and which are providing common services to all users. Contribution to the analysis and planning of HW and SW upgrades or reconfigurations, taking care of compatibility issues between subsystems Provision of secondlevel support to the users of the system Database Programming Support to SW development and maintenance in relation to the utilization of system resources Provision of standbyoncall support if needed under special circumstances Provision of support, as required, to critical operations. In the performance of the activities the Key person shall apply the relevant change control and maintenance procedures. In addition to having a university degree or equivalent, the Key person shall have extensive experience in the programming of lowlevel code and system critical functions of distributed systems. The experience should have been made in an operational or production environment characterized by custom applications in addition to standard software, running both on the client and server side, and by high availability requirements. The Key person shall have an expert knowledge and a significant work experience of programming with UNIXtype operating systems, and should be familiar, to the extent required by the performance of the above tasks, with as many as possible of the following system software environments CC programming Java Programming Scripting language programming like perl or python Network programming Operating System interface programming Automated services Database programming Experience in the installation, administration and troubleshooting on some of the following shall be considered as an advantage Installation and maintenance of ORACLE databases maintenance of an Online Documentation system FirstSecond Level user support. Automatic Service Provisioning using Cloud technologies. Installation and maintenance of programming and debugging environments It is also an advantage if the key person can carry out basic hardware support like installing interface cards or physically setting up networks. The variety of the tasks and the scope of the systems to be supported require a high degree of autonomy and good analytical skills. Because of the special support role good communications skills and stress resistance are essential for the job. The official languages are English and French.
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