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MTG Data Dissemination Software Engineer
2015-10-27 12:03:12| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving all ESA sites and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations. Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on innovation. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For the location in Darmstadt Germany we are looking for a MTG Data Dissemination Software Engineer at EUMETSAT. Tasks As a member of the Data Services Competence Area, the Consultant shall provide support to the development and maintenance of the Data Services systems, with main focus on the activities of the Data Dissemination Services to be provided to the MTG Programme, delivering data services and requirement management, and validation and verification of the system, alongside the specification of Service Level Agreements. In particular, the tasks include the following ones Requirements Management Review Data Dissemination requirements for MTG programme. Review, analysis and definition of Data Dissemination Services and Service Level Agreements SLA specifications. Translation of system level requirements into specification of Services and viceversa. Interaction with relevant Operations Teams to include operational requirements. Interaction with MTG data producers and consumers for possible Services updates and evolutions. Design Definition and implementation of Service metrics and the corresponding SLAs Analyse and verify that Data Dissemination Services and its system and software requirements can be traced through design, code and test phases. Analyse interfaces. Testing Analysis and review of Verification and Validation Test specification and approach from perspective of Services and SLAs. Coordination of Test Plans, Cases, Data, Tools, Procedures, and Scripts. Analysis of test results and reporting. Support to the Ground Segment IV V. Operational Support for Data Dissemination systems Implementation, configuration and maintenance of dissemination data flows. Monitoring and reporting the performance and behavior against SLAs. Problem investigation and anomaly raising. Configuration and installation of software. Support the delivery of software externally developed Communication with external contractors. Software reception, installation, configuration and testing. Generation and maintenance of technical documentation Service, System, Software Requirements, and Service Definitions. Test Approaches and Plans. Architectural Design. Interface Control Documents. MaintenanceOperational Procedures for operational systems. Participation and organisation of technical meetings and formal reviews. Preparation and production of routine reports as necessary. In the performance of the activities the Consultant shall follow the relevant change control and maintenance procedures. Essential requirements In addition to having a University degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline, the Consultant must have excellent team working skills, being able to work autonomous and have good analytical skills. The variety of the tasks and the scope of the systems to be supported require also very good communication, presentation skills combined with the ability to perform under high workloads. The Consultant shall have skills and experience in the following mandatory areas, ideally in the context of data services systems, with a minimum 5 years of working experience System Development IT Service Management frameworks and standards e.g. ITIL. Strong ability to translate customer and technical requirements into appropriate service specifications and technical design. Service declarations, service measurements and reporting applicable to system level. Software development and maintenance of high available and scalable software systems using a formal life cycle resulting in deliveries to customers. Requirements management, software design and implementation reflecting corrective and evolutions of software components. Software Verification and Validation related activities of complex Systems e.g. Requirements Verification and Validation, and Tests Coordination. System Maintenance Provision of support for operational systems, which includes the monitoring of the performance, problem investigation, coordination of resolutions. Operation and maintenance of systems in a 247 operational environment. Software Engineering Designing, developing, and maintenance of medium to large size applications in Java programming language and XML technologies under Unix. Scripting languages in the Unix environment. Software applications using relational database management systems RDBMS. Documentation and Software Configuration Management Using software configuration management, anomaly reporting and tracking tools. Excellent, proven, writing skills of technical documentation. Software Technology Java, JavaScript and operating system scripting languages. Software Development methodologies e.g. Waterfall, RUPIUML with Object Oriented Design. System level and network programming TCPIP and distributed applications. Data Transfer Protocols such as FTP. Web development and XML technology. Relational Databases preferably Oracle or MySQL. Source Code Control Systems preferably Sub Version. Configuration Control. Formalised Software Testing. UNIX Operating Systems. Desirable requirements Practical knowledge of as many as possible of the following will be an advantage Data disseminationdistributiontransfer systems and provision of realtime data services. Definition and formalization of dataflows and interfaces between complex systems. Satellite Earth Observation Ground Segment systems. Standard Communication protocols, data exchange protocols, data compression schemes. OGC Interoperability Standards such as CSW, WMS, WCS, WFS. Meteorological Data Formats HDF5, NetCDF, JPEG2000, etc. World Meteorological Organisation WMO related dissemination protocols and formats. Standards applicable to software development activities QA, Configuration Management, ECSS Cloud Computing technologies. Other Information Start date is 11th January 2016. Fluency in English is mandatory The candidate must have a valid German work and residence permit or be an EU Citizen To apply online please visit www.scisys.despacejobs
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