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Science Operations Engineer Gaia

2015-04-15 11:05:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Serco is a FTSE 250 international service company that improves the quality and efficiency of essential services that matter to millions of people around the world. The work we do for national and local governments involves us in the most important areas of public services, including science and defence. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. For our activities in ESAC, we are currently looking for a Science Operations Engineer Gaia. Tasks and Responsibilities Specific Tasks Contribute to procedure writing and the implementation of those procedures Follow procedures and operate Gaia SOC systems Test SOC systems for the daily processing of raw Gaia data Test SOC systems for the generation of payload operations request Further test and scale SOC products such as 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 Interact appropriately with the users of DPCE data products and other Data Processing Centres Assist in automation of SOC procedures nominally Gaia SOC will only be manned normal working hours Contribute to the maintenance of the overall system, including configuration control and versioning Provide support for testing, particularly for EndtoEnd E2E and operational rehearsal campaigns Report on operational activities including the gathering and presentation of processing summary statistics. It is expected that the service support provider will be able to interact freely with any member of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium DPAC. Interactions with general international community of astronomersusers are also expected via workshops and the helpdesk. Requirements The Key Person should at least have a Master degree or Ph.D. in a relevant subject area. Preferred experience 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. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Spain or be EU nationals. Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in our corporate careers website httpwww.serco.comcareersindex.asp If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position Science Operations Engineer Gaia Reference RTCSREOOO108 Application closing date 05.05.2015 Start date 01.07.2015 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 ESAC, please consult httpwww.esa.intAboutUsESAC

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Science Operations Engineer Gaia

2015-04-15 11:05:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Serco is a FTSE 250 international service company that improves the quality and efficiency of essential services that matter to millions of people around the world. The work we do for national and local governments involves us in the most important areas of public services, including science and defence. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. For our activities in ESAC, we are currently looking for a Science Operations Engineer Gaia. Tasks and Responsibilities Generic Tasks native to Software Development and Maintenance Develop and maintain modules, applications and tools specific to product generation framework and quality control framework Ensure timely delivery of SW releases and relative increments Perform SW architectural design as needed Prepare and maintain SW documentation Develop and maintain unit test harnesses Report on progress and problem areas Participate in the Configuration Control Boards applicable to the development and operation of the software Followingup and tracking the correction and resolution of problem reports Implement approved software enhancement requests. Requirements The Key Person should possess a university background in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in software development. In particular, possess the following experience, knowledge and proficiency in ECSS standards for software development JDK 1.71.8 RMI Generics OO design Distributed processing Numerical programming in Java JUnit Eclipse Ant JDBC DBMS interaction Subversion Large Databasesdata processing 1TB Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Spain or be EU nationals. Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in our corporate careers website httpwww.serco.comcareersindex.asp If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position Science Operations Engineer Gaia Reference RTCSREOOO107 Application closing date 05.05.2015 Start date 01.07.2015 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 ESAC, please consult httpwww.esa.intAboutUsESAC

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Science Data Processing Software Engineer

2015-04-13 18:06:45| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

This is a permanent position, calling for considerable experience of engineering large, complex, realtime data processing systems. You will be placed on assignment based near Frankfurt in Germany for several years. Candidates should ideally be available to start in July 2015. Our client is responsible for establishing and operating weather forecasting and Earth observation satellite programmes with associated data telemetry and dissemination operations. Vast quantities of data are produced and user communities throughout the world are able to access both current and historical data sets. The demanding realtime environment places much emphasis on adherence to quality and configuration management standards and procedures. The jobholder will focus on supporting the maintenance and evolution of the clients data processing facilities. Duties will include a range of tasks, from the support of the day to day operations and maintenance, to the handling of anomalies, upgrades and configuration changes for these facilities. Besides these routine tasks, you will also be expected to contribute to requirements specification, design and system engineeringreengineering, development and testing activities in the field of science data processing that will become necessary for existing and future production systems. The key experience and attributes sought are Engineering of large, complex, realtime data processing systems, including requirements specification, design, software maintenance or development, formal software testing and system integration Operating or maintaining software systems in a UNIX or LINUX based environment Software build environments and tools e.g. IBM XL C and GCC compilers, make, automake, autoconf, RPM Software debugging and profiling tools e.g. GDB, IBM Purify, Valgrind Source code control systems e.g. primarily Subversion, Git CC programming language experience in a UNIX or LINUX based environment Scripting languages e.g. Perl, shell Analysis and processing of softwaregenerated reports and logfiles Web technologies and programming e.g. Apache, CGI, JavaScript Networking technologies and tools e.g. Space Data Link Protocols, TCPIP, UDP multicast, PGM, FTP, Wireshark Very good technical writing skills, in particular in the area of formal technical documentation, e.g. requirements specification and design documentation, test plans and procedures, maintenance procedures The main working language is English and candidates must be fluent in both reading and writing but knowledge of French also would be advantageous. Pactum was established in 1988 and provides space system services and recruitment consultancy to clients throughout the UK and across continental Europe.

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Science Operations Engineer for Solar Orbiter

2015-01-23 15:06:07| 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 for Solar Orbiter for our customer in Spain. Science Operations Engineer for Solar Orbiter Key Tasks and Responsibilities As part of the Solar Orbiter Science Operations team at ESAESAC, you will have the following responsibilities Develop and maintain modules, applications and tools specific to product generation framework and quality control framework Ensure timely delivery of SW releases and relative increments Perform SW architectural design and prepare and maintain SW documentation Develop and maintain unit test harnesses Report on progress and problem areas Followingup and tracking the correction and resolution of problem reports Implement approved software enhancement requests Develop, implement and maintain the science operations planning system a low latency data production system integrating data processing pipelines supplied by the Principal Investigators the auxiliary data productions system Support the archiving of science data products provided by the Principal Investigators Organise development tasks as needed Deploy and configure new versions of the Science Operations Centre SOC subsystems Test and validate new deliveries of software, including regression testing Test and validate external deliveries of data processing pipelines Report on progress and problem areas Participates in the Configuration Control Boards applicable to the development and maintenance Communicate with SOC team at ESAC and experts in the Principal Investigator teams. Skills Experience You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience University degree or equivalent in a scientific or technical domain Several years relevant experience in professional software development Knowledge of ECSS standards for software development Software architecture and design Ability to understand the different subsystems as a whole integrated systems Virtual machine management and configuration Software repositories Subversion, GIT Databases and data processing Scientific data formats used by the Heliophysics and Space Physics communities FITS, CDF Data processing pipelines in solar system or astronomy space projects Knowledge of modern programming languages CC, Java, Python Scripting languages Operating system in common use in Heliophysics and space science LinuxUnixMacOS, Windows Coordination of a small team of software developers Fluency in English is mandatory knowledge of another European language is an advantage. This job is located near Madrid. We are looking for candidates who are available from March 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 Corrina Scheepmaker at jobshespace.com, quoting job NLSC2495 before 11Feb15. An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!

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Computer Systems Engineer for Herschel Science Operations

2015-01-13 16:07:00| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA and in particular at ESTEC and ESAC. Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support within the Science and Robotic Exploration Directorate DSRE. Aurora currently has a team of 20 engineers and scientists at ESAC including support to Herschel. We require a service to be provided by a parttime circa 50 software engineer with experience in system administration and support, preferably in a science operations environment. ESA will award the work to the company with the best proposal and Auroras existing experience on providing support to the Computer Support Group CSG and the Herschel mission is beneficial to our commitment to produce an excellent proposal to ESA. Overview The work is to provide a number of specialised services to support ESA in Computer Systems Engineering at ESAC for the operations of the Herschel Science Centre HSC. The Herschel Space Observatory was launched in May 2009. It performed astronomical photometry and spectroscopy in the far infrared and submillimetre 57670 micron wavelength range. Its scientific payload consisted of three instruments using a variety of detector technologies developed by Principal Investigator teams at various institutions, predominantly in Europe but with a significant contribution from the US. The majority of its observing time was provided to the general user community, via annual Calls for Proposals. Since May 2013, the Herschel spacecraft has had no liquid helium coolant remaining to allow the science instruments on board to operate, hence regular operations have ceased and the spacecraft has been placed into a nonreturning Solar orbit. In the ongoing postoperations phase, the Herschel Science Centre HSC, located at ESAC, is, inter alia, responsible for supporting data analysis improvements, oversight of the calibration and crosscalibration of the science instruments, and the generation of standard science products and their quality assessment as final Herschel archive products. All observational data has been systematically processed to generate these products that are distributed to the astronomical community via the Herschel Science Archive HSA, developed and maintained at ESAC. With the complete set of data from mission operations now in hand it is possible to further improve the calibration and data products in the archive. The SREO Computer Support Group CSG is providing computer support to all science operations centres and science ground segments located at ESAC, either in development or in operational phase. Under this work package, service shall be provided to support ESA in system administration activities for those computer systems used for science operations and research activities. These computers are general servers or workstations mainly based on Linux and Oracle Solaris, Macintoshes, Technical PCs and for Office Automation activities. The environment also includes Disk Storage infrastructure, Virtual infrastructure as well as GRID and Cloud computing infrastructures. Systems can be physical machines or provided through virtual infrastructure. These systems are connected to networks organized by functions operational, office and development, external services, GRID, Cloud and administration networks. Specific tasks would include installation, configuration, deployment, integration, monitoring, administration and maintenance of these computer systems, scientific and commercial software installation and administration, data backup and retrieval, interface with IT vendors for quotation, installation and maintenance agreements, users IT support, defining and operating computers operational procedures, hardware inventory tracking. It specifically excludes ESA corporate informatics infrastructure services office automation, network, terminal servers, Lotus Notes, LAN and communications, which are provided and subject to separate Service Level Agreements SLA. Specific Service tasks a UNIX LINUX and SOLARIS, Macintosh and PC System management Installation, configuration, integration and setting up of new machines with appropriate operating systems and layered software. Administration and operation management of computer systems. System security management. System upgrades, both physical and logical. User support mainly scientists and engineers Handle the mail aliases and mail distribution list. Handlingcheckingmodifying all backups. Definition, implementation and maintenance of computer operators procedures. Issues of documentation and technical reports. b GRID related activities Installation, configuration, integration, operations, maintenance and upgrade of Grid Engine Support users to adapt their computing tasks to the GRID infrastructure c Cloud related activities Installation, configuration, integration, operations, maintenance and upgrade of Eucalyptus Cloud middleware Knowledge of other Cloud middleware is an asset d Contact with hardware and software suppliers Definition of hardwaresoftware needs and quotation requests for new purchases and maintenance contracts Locking hardware incidents calls and following the call history. Assisting technician when on site. e Others Installation and maintenance of storage SANNAS infrastructure Installation and maintenance of Virtual Machines Installation and maintenance of computer clusters Interface with external ESA corporate informatics infrastructure service providers Design of network setup requirements and follow up of implementation Request of new network connections. Specific qualification requirements At least a University degree or equivalent in computer science or related fields. At least 3 years relevant professional experience. Specific knowledge is required in the following areas GRID technology Grid Engine Cloud computing Storage SANNAS technologies Solaris System management Linux RedHat system management Virtualization technologies Backup technologies PC Windows and Macintosh system management Scientific user computer support Network design and requirements In addition applicants should Be willing to render the service in a team environment Have good interpersonal and communication skills, together with a proactive attitude to problem solving and customer focus are required. Be comfortable in an international working environment Be fluent in written and spoken English, one of the official languages of ESA. Be able to provide the service during normal ESA working days and working hours, with some flexibility to allow exceptional cases of oncall andor extra time support. Legal and Security Requirements All applicants must be legally allowed to work in Spain without the need to obtain a work visa. Only European Union citizens can be employed by Aurora in Spain. Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA. Prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident. Location The work will be performed at the ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre, at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain. Contract You will be registered for both social security and tax in Spain. This is a part time position. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 29 annual days holiday, which will be prorated according to the confirmed hours. In addition to public health services Aurora provides private medical insurance in Spain. Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included. Aurora can assist financially and provide recent experience information for relocation. To be considered for this Position Provide prior to 3 February 2015 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailed Recruitment Form to Mr. Andy McGarry, at email andy.mcgarryaurora.nl quoting reference SRE99. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting their detailed technical proposal and candidates to ESA by 10 February 2015.

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