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2016-08-05 19:05:03| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
With 1.800 employees worldwide, the CS Group is a leading IT company in France and in Germany, and a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems. It has now been over 30 years that comprehensive CS solutions for space systems and applications, both on the ground and in space, have been part and parcel of this odyssey. Our German activities grow at fast pace and to face our costumers high level expectations and needs, we are looking for talented profiles having relevant experience in Space systems. The key person shall support the Comms Team, within the GSI Division, in the TSS Department. The key person will report to the Comms Team Leader Competency Area Manager for Communications Systems. The key person shall be employed within a leveraged allmission team, requiring the ability to switch rapidly between the multitude of roles e.g. project support, operations as required. The team support the full range of Comms Systems, from provision of support to new networks systems requirement and design, support of operational systems and those transitioning to operations status, and integration of legacy systems and their eventual replacement or decommissioning. The Comms Team performs the following activities Specification of customer networking needs for both LAN and WAN systems. Identification, extractioncollection, analysis consolidation of required data flows and specification of their characteristics. Assessment and definition of customer networking needs, plus analysis of existing infrastructure, specification of incremental and consolidated requirements on network infrastructure and systems. Specification of the customer network solution purpose and scope, highlevel functionalarchitectural design description and justification, detailed description of logical and physical design incl. redundancy behaviour. Operation and maintenance of current insitu networks on a 247 basis. Design, procurement and provision of dedicated operations voicevideo support systems. Performs outofhours scheduled maintenance activities in support of services delivered to the ICT Unit. The key person will provide prime support to the Comms Team and will contribute to the requirements specification, design and development of Comms Systems, including the setting up of the related maintenance arrangements and processes. The tasks of the key person will typically include but are not limited to Support to procurements of customerled network services and systems. Contribute to requirements specifications and statements of work. Participate in the evaluation of offers for network services and systems. Lead and implement the migration of existing operational programmespecific and shared facilities from their current legacy networks to the consolidated network infrastructure at EUMHQ. Upgrade the EUMETSAT networks in remote sites. Support and contribute to the development of network solutions for future programmes. Demonstrate how system architecture and design parameters and deliveries will meet requirements, through the effective design and implementation of testing and other verification processes and procedures. The key person will assume and maintain the following roles and responsibilities within the Team Ownership of customer communications systems needs. Prime interface and point of contact for ensuring customers needs are understood and translated to technical specifications and constraints. Owning the responsibility to identify gaps between what the customer requires and the policy and technical constraints that may need to be mitigated e.g. security policy adherence. Leading the rollout of customer solutions within the projectprogramme and being the liaison between the Comms Team and the ProjectProgramme throughout. Obtaining and ensuring customer buyin and joint ownership of deliverables. Ownership of the network performance and management solution delivered and the servicesolution quality delivered to the customer. Actively contribute to the substantial scheduling challenge integrating the project schedule with other schedules through liaison with multiple stakeholders to ensure that project requirements are met, whilst facilitating the most effective deconfliction with existing network operations for operational systems. PROFILE In addition to having a University degree in a relevant engineering discipline, the key person shall demonstrate significant knowledge and a minimum of 5 years direct experience in the area of specification, design, implementation, verification and maintenance of communications systems. The key person shall have skills and experience in the following areas Domain Skills Understanding and translating the business needs imposed by satellite ground systems environments or similar on networking, and the delivery of an associated network infrastructure along with functions and systems that are demonstrably viable and optimal to meet the stated requirements. A demonstrable ability to analyse complex systems and present them in a comprehensible way to across other technical and managerial domains, with the specific ability to understand and communicate the relevant detail whilst maintaining focus on the overall systemwide aspects. Experience with estimating and scheduling of multiple concurrent technical activities such that milestones and their likely achievement can be communicated. Communication skills, in terms of experience in authoring technical and project documentation, and then being able to present it to a broad audience in English. Development, Verification Maintenance Skills The key person should demonstrate substantial recent direct experience with all aspects of network engineering within a comparable ideally satellite ground system and ICT communications system lifecycle. This should include for example identification of needs to deployment, operations and eventual decommissioning, and explain how those skill and experience would be directly relevant to meeting the requirements of the position. Supporting examples should be provided of recent experience where such skills have been deployed. This would include experience with mature change, configuration, capacity and problem management processes and systems. Evidence of having worked with customers and stakeholders to extract and document business or crossdomain requirements, translating them into technical formal communications requirements for delivery within a project methodology. Experience in the design and delivery of test plans such that deliverables can be validated against their likely ability to meet stated requirements. Technology Skills Internet Protocol network design, specification, documentation, testing, fault finding, and evolution. Indepth knowledge of Cisco design methodologies, technologies and solutions ideally including enterprise WLAN infrastructure. It will be beneficial if the key person holds current Cisco certifications or equivalent. Familiarity with the trend to virtualise the above technologies and to recommend and justify when and why such approaches may be optimal, in addition to then deploying and supporting them e.g. SDNs. Security skills associated with securing the communication system e.g. next generation firewalls, VPN, intrusion detection and prevention, strong authentication. Skills appropriate to associated domains e.g. computing clientserver, storage, dissemination. Network performance monitoring in terms of both the network and the applicationssystems it supports in terms of supporting fault finding, documentation, performance tuning, capacity and configuration management etc. Familiarity with IP based Telephony Systems The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the Engineer must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other. How to apply Please consider the following points before applying Please submit your complete application documents in English. An attached cover letter should mention your availability and salary expectations. Interested applicants should submit their CV to pierre.lenahediccssytems.de and copy to francoisxavier.laffontcs.fr with the job title. Due to new work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Closing date 26th August 2016 Starting Date As soon as possible Interviews week 3839 2016
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