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WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION Consultancy services to support the operations, the engineering and the science to be undertaken as part of the Copernicus Sentinel3 routine operations. The operational, technical and scientific activities will be conducted under the responsibility of the EUMETSAT Copernicus Sentinel3 Operations Team within the EUMETSAT Operations and User Support Department with the support of the EUMETSAT Technical and Scientific Support Department. The Consultancy Services Framework provides a mechanism for EUMETSAT to call for consultancy services to support the activities in the operations of the Sentinel3 mission. Sentinel3 is a Low Earth Orbiting mission to support services relating to the marine and global land environment, with capability to serve further atmospheric and cryosphericbased application areas. The objectives of the Sentinel3 mission encompass the commitment to consistent, longterm collection of remotely sensed marine and land data, of uniform quality, for operational ocean state analysis, forecasting and service provision, in the context of the Copernicus Services as set up by the European Commission. Responsibilities Duties Tasks The tasks of the consultant shall be carried out at the EUMETSAT Headquarters in Darmstadt, but travel within Europe may be required for certain tasks. Fluency in English is mandatory this is the working language at EUMETSAT, and the consultant must be able to work effectively in this language. The consultant shall have the experience and capability to fulfil the assigned tasks with a minimum level of supervision. The support will involve crossdivisional interactions and interface with experts in various disciplines e.g. system engineering, instruments, operations, science. Dissemination Operations Engineer Background, Tasks and Responsibilities The Dissemination Operations Engineer DOE shall mainly perform tasks related to dissemination in support of Copernicus Sentinel3 during the routine operations phase. The tasks primarily involve the support to the operations of the various dissemination components, the analysis, testing, and implementation of new data streams and the monitoring and reporting. It also includes the settingup and implementation of operational procedures, and the coordination with external organisations and service providers. The consultant should have the following background 5 years experience in operations of realtime data dissemination systems, and be familiar with DVBS satellite communications and ground segment operations. Demonstrated experience in the provision of near realtime data services in a high availability environment 247 Demonstrated experience Encryption technologies, USB smart cards, TripleDES Demonstrated experience DVB basedreceiveonly earth stations for satellite communications Demonstrated experience IP multicast data distribution systems, such as Tellicast provided by Newtec. System Service Operations Engineer The System and Service Operations Engineer SyOE shall mainly perform tasks related to system and ground segment in support of Copernicus Sentinel3 during the routine operations phase. The tasks primarily cover the support to the end to end operations monitoring and control and interaction between the various system and ground segment components, the analysis, testing, and implementation of new functions, as well as monitoring and reporting functions. It also includes the settingup and implementation of operational procedures, and the coordination of operations with external organisations and service providers. Indicative Profile of the Consultant The consultant should have the following background 3 years experience of realtime satellite and ground segment operations. Demonstrated experience in the monitoring and control of complex satellite ground segments Demonstrated experience in endtoend monitoring of data driven ground segments Demonstrated experience in systems operations across a distributed ground segment with external partners Remote Sensing Expert Topography mission The Remote sensing expert for the topography mission RSET shall support the calibration and validation calval, quality control and performance optimisation of the operational marine products from the topography instruments suite SRAL, MWR and precise orbit determination on Sentinel3. The RSET will implement and test calval and performance monitoring procedures hosted in the S3 PDGS data processing infrastructure and EUMETSAT computing facilities,. The RSET will report on product quality and performance, contribute to the investigation, diagnostic and solution of quality issues, as well as to the improvement of the topography products. The consultant should have the following background 3 years of direct experience in calibrating, validating or deriving geophysical products from satellite altimeter data in marine research or operations. Knowledge and experience of the C language and with satellite product visualisation and assessment tools. Knowledge of precise orbit determination from ranging or GNSS. Job Category Junior Engineer. Data Processing Expert The Data processing expert DPE shall support the configuration, testing, operation and performance optimisation of the operational marine product processing chains aka Instrument Processing Facilities or IPFs in the Sentinel3 PDGS. The DPE will test, monitor and diagnose the end to end performance of Level 1 and Level 2 IPFs in the S3PDGS. Heshe shall liaise with the entities in charge of maintaining the IPFs as well as the other operators on Level 1 IPFs in the S3 Ground Segment. The DPE will support the validation of new IPF configurations releases The consultant should have the following background 5 years of direct experience in developing and testing scientific data processing in the C language, preferably in an operational context and related to satellite data. Proficiency in configuration control, software development environments is required. Data Ingestion and Retrieval Service Engineer The Data Ingestion and Retrieval Service Engineer DIRSE shall support the Sentinel3 operations with respect to EUMETSATs Data Centre Archive and the related ondemand data access services to users. Tasks include acceptance testing and operational validation of new upgrades and enhancements prior to their release as well as Support to the development of the netCDF product formats and the CF metadata standard. The consultant should have the following background 3 years of experience in using UNIX, shell scripting, XML Good knowledge of standards, conventions and formats used for Earth Observation EO Satellite data. Marine and Ocean Training Expert The S3 Marine and Ocean Training Expert MOTE shall support the exploitation of the Sentinel3 marine data in respect to EUMETSATs user activities, in particular through the provision of information, management of training activities and engagement with user groups. The consultant should have the following background 5 years of experience in training and in using satellite data in marine research or operations. Understanding of the processes used to retrieve marine geophysical parameters in one or more elements of the Sentinel product suite and have the proven ability to relate to user groups and subject matter experts. Ability to establish the training requirements, develop and deliver a plan to meet those requirements, evaluate the effectiveness of the training and resources delivered. WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com
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