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Science Operations Engineer
2015-04-16 12:05:11| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
HE Space is a successful international space company. For over 30 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration. We are currently looking for a Science Operations Engineer to support our customer in Spain. Science Operations Engineer Key Tasks and Responsibilities As a member of the Gaia Science Operations Team, you will have the following responsibilities Contribute to procedure writing and the implementation of those procedures Follow procedures and operate Gaia Science Operations Centre SOC systems Test SOC systems for the daily processing of raw Gaia data and for the generation of payload operations request Further test and scale SOC products such as Main Database MDB Participate in the optimisation of software processing Gather operational constraints for software running at SOC Interact appropriately with and support the providers of all software SOC systems, and with the users of DPCE data products and other Data Processing Centres Assist in automation of SOC procedures Contribute to the maintenance of the overall system, including configuration control and versioning. Skills Experience You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience A graduate degree Masters or Ph.D. in a relevant subject area Past astronomical instrument or spacecraft support with a major international space or groundbased observatory Support to the professional astronomical community for a spacebased mission Experience in operating large and distributed data processing systems Use of spacebased scientific data in support of science research ECSS standards for software development Database interaction using JDBC Subversion Large Databasesdata processing 1TB LaTeX Fluency in English is mandatory knowledge of another European language is an advantage. This job is located near Madrid. We welcome applicants who are available from June 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send us your CV together with a letter of motivation both in English and in Word to Ms Elisa Manfreda at jobshespace.com, quoting job NLSC2586 before 03May15. An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!
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