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Consultancy Support for Supporting Applications Engineering
2015-07-17 17:05:12| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
ACS is looking for a person to provide Consultancy Support for Supporting Applications Engineering ACS has more than 30 years experience in delivering solutions for Earth Observation satellites Ground Segments. Based in Rome, Italy and in Darmstadt, Germany, we delivered systems currently in operation in 20 countries worldwide and have a long record of successful projects carried out for ESA, EUMETSAT, EMSA and many other Space Agencies and Research Centres. ACS recently established German subsidiary ACSD aims at better serving our customers based in Darmstadt area. ACS offers pleasant, international working environment at customer site very competitive salary attractive benefit package tailored on specific exigencies training and personal growth within ACS group, full support from a high technology company for relocation to Darmstadt. 1. Contribute to the definition, design, implementation and maintenance of architectures for data processing ground segments and their components with special emphasis on product quality control, calibration and validation, production monitoring and reporting. This task will mainly include 1.1. Maintenance and development of the QCF and CVF framework software 1.2. Configuration Management, building and distribution of QCFCVF software releases and patches 1.3. Contribution to QCFCVF software system design and reengineering 1.4. Support to the development and implementation of QCF and CVF tools e.g. in IDLCCFortran 2. Support the operations of existing data processing ground segments and their maintenance and evolution e.g. QCF and CVF. This will also include Upgrade software, including implementing and maintaining new algorithms for product quality control and calibrationvalidation activities. 3. Perform routine tasks in operational systems under configuration control such as 3.1. Support the Configuration Management process and the building and distribution of software releases and patches 3.2. Support to the development, integration and configuration management of software developed by third parties, its installation, and configuration and testing 3.3. Anomaly investigations, documentation and classification. 3.4. Follow up of the delivery of SW resolutions for these anomalies 4. Perform standard SW engineering activities such as 4.1. SW testing in a structured approach to verify that delivered SW is fulfilling the requirements or to demonstrate that problems have been corrected. 4.2. SW integration and verification in the EUMETSAT ground segments 5. Settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures, 6. Support to the procurement and installation of software, and the coordination with external providers of support services 7. Participation in meetings and formal reviews. Mandatory Attributes, Skills and Experience University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline Experience in system design, SW development, operation, maintenance and trouble shooting of large complex realtime data processing systems for Earth Observation missions. Very good communication, presentation and team working skills and be able to cope with very high workloads. Able to work with a high degree of autonomy and to demonstrate good analytical skills. Able to work effectively in English Ability to learn and develop the needed skills and knowledge to contribute to the development of Data Processing applications within the Supporting Application Engineering Team. This includes the ability to rapidly absorb, and make use of, information presented in written and oral communications in a dynamic context Willingness to work within a multidisciplinary context in cooperation with other teams. The ability to maintain a system overview is essential. Heshe shall have a systematic approach to work, be able to plan their work and to cope with tight schedules and multiple tasks. They shall have the capability to write accurate and consistent technical documentation. CC programming language experience in a UNIXLINUX based environment Use of and application programming of database systems e.g. ORACLE, INFORMIX, PostgreSQL and MySQL Competence in the use of scripting languages e.g., shell scripting, highlevel languages e.g., Python, Java and correspondent using of their libraries Desirable Skills and Experience Experience with the programming and usage of IDL and Fortran Knowledge of XML and related technologies XPATH, SVG, etc. Experience in Web Programming Knowledge of web technologies, programming and markup languages e.g. Apache, CGI, JavaScript, UMLCompetence in SW testing, unit test suite maintenance, automated testing, verification and validation Experience in system design for quality control and calval systems Familiarity with data formats used for meteorological satellite products Design and implementation of MMI using different toolkits and languages Knowledge of relevant Standards, Quality Assurance and Configuration Management principles and applications Competence in the exploitation of modern hardware and operating systems at the application level e.g. parallel programming pthreads, MPI, OpenMP Competence in objectoriented software design and implementation possibly in the context of satellite instrument data processing systems. Additionally EU national or valid work permit for Germany CV in Europass editable format
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