je.st
news
Software Engineer for Mission Planning Support
2013-05-23 12:38:35| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The engineer will provide hisher prime support to the engineering and maintenance of the Mission Planning facility, but also will provide some software engineering support to the rest of facilities under the responsibility of the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team. For such software facilities, the tasks of the key person will typically include Software Engineering Activities Analysis, software design and following the procurement with external contractors of the evolutions needed in existing mission control facilities to become multimission tools with the concept of generic kernel and missionspecific extensions Analysis, software design and following the procurement with external contractors of the evolutions needed in existing mission control facilities to migrate them to state of the art technologies Analysis, software design and following the procurement with external contractors of the evolutions needed in existing mission control facilities to adapt them to the programmes needs for coming missions Implementation of prototypes, technology research tools and operational tools in thearea of MC Study the different approaches for the longterm maintainability of the mission control facilities. Software Maintenance Activities Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes Evolutions and changes generation and analysis of user and maintenance driven software requirements, design, following procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes Maintenance test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test procedures at software facility and system level. Development andor procurement of scriptstools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing Automatic verification testing analysis and implementation of mechanisms allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the software facilities Installation and verification testing of new software releases or patches preparation and participation to infactory acceptance testing campaigns, coordination of the installation of new releases or patches onsite and running the onsite verification testing at facility and system level. Technical Management Documentation generation and updating of technical documents Routine reporting preparation and production of routine reports as necessary Meeting participation to technical, progress and team meetings as needed and requested Contractor management at technical level support for the technical management of the external contractors including supporting technical discussions, review of technical documentation from the contractor, organising periodical technical meetings with the contractor. Software Engineering Methodology Analysis activities focused on a common software engineering methodology andcommon software engineering tools for the GSI Mission Control Applications andTools Team Development of tools supporting the common software engineering methodologies. User Support Software support software support to the endusers of the application software Training prepare and provide training covering endusage and maintenance aspects of the mission control facilities. Qualifications and Requirements Applicants require a University degree in a relevant engineering discipline, the successful candidate shall demonstrate significant knowledge and experience in the area of software development. Essential Skills and experience in the software development with the following areas System Development Maintenance Skills A minimum of 5 years of experience in software development and maintenance, using a formal life cycle resulting in deliveries to customers. This includes production of requirements, design engineering artefacts and implementation reflecting corrective and evolutive software maintenance activities as well as new applications definition A minimum of 5 years of experience in AssemblyIntegrationVerification AIV related activities test procedure generation, nonregression testing, requirements verification and validation. Software Engineering Skills A minimum of 5 years of experience in designing and developing software components and applications using Object Oriented OO approach including design patterns Relevant experience in the usage of software CASE design tools A minimum of 5 years of experience in designing and developing software applications using Java under UNIX operating systems A minimum of 3 years of experience in designing and developing software applications using C under UNIX operating systems A minimum of 5 years of experience in designing and developing software client applications using Eclipse as HMI framework Rich Client Platform A minimum of 5 years of experience in developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with RDBMS engineering. Documentation and Configuration Management Skills Very good knowledge of MS Windows Office Suite applications and experience with documentation management systems. Experience in using configuration Management and anomaly reporting and tracking tools. Desirable Experience with Domain Skills Mission Planning functions specifications development and operations within a space system. System Maintenance Skills Maintenance of Low Earth Orbiting Mission Planning systems and tools Technical management of contractors working offsite and responsible for software evolution and maintenance. Software Technology Skills IBM DOORS requirement management tool Experience in version Control Systems CVS and SVN Linux Operating System Experience with static and dynamic software analysis tools in support to testing andtroubleshooting including tools for automation of functional testing Enterprise Architect and MagicDraw CASE tools Unified Modelling Language UML for software design OSGi Bundles development Software applications using ODBCJDBC bridges and programmatic interfaces toMySQL and Oracle RDBMS Engineering of MySQL and Oracle RDBMS Administration of MySQL and Oracle RDBMS Eclipse IDE for software development Apache HTTP Server JavaScript, PHP, CSS HTML5 for web client application development XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLTand XPath Interprocess communication mechanisms, in particular TCPIP and CORBAstandards. The engineer shall be able to conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, shall be able to work calmly and correctly under stress and must be able to work with the minimum of supervision. The official languages are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the key person must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU nationals. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply by either clicking on, or copying into your browser, the URL below. httpswww.amris.comsercorequirementdisplay.php?refSearchrequirementid42591 If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position Software Engineer for Mission Planning Support Reference G013091EUM Application closing date 240613 Start date 010913 If you are not yet registered with Serco we advise you to register your details by adding your details and attaching your CV via httpswww.amris.comsercoalertssignupform.php For additional information about Serco Group please consult our website www.serco.com For additional information about Serco Europe please consult our website www.serco.comeurope For additional information about EUMETSAT, please consult httpwww.eumetsat.int
Tags: support
software
planning
mission
Category:Transportation and Logistics