Mission Control System Applications Engineer

Mission Control System Applications Engineer

EUMETSAT - European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

Darmstadt, Germany

EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency - monitoring the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

This role is rooted in the mission of EUMETSAT and will provide the opportunity to work with leading IT, Space and Earth Observation organisations and domain experts to make a positive impact on society!

The EUMETSAT Common Mission Control System is a central and strategic asset of the EUMETSAT Ground Segment for the preparations and operations of Earth Observation missions.

Within the Satellite Systems Ground Segment Division (SGS), the Mission Control System Applications Engineer will perform the technical management of the evolution and maintenance of the EUMETSAT Common Mission Control System kernel. She/he will also maintain and evolve Mission Control Systems based on this Common kernel for flying missions.

The successful candidate will be part of an international team responsible for the big spectrum of Mission Operations Applications. She/he will play a key role in the definition of roadmaps for the EUMETSAT Mission Control Systems, contribute to the provision of operationally reliable systems, pursue an efficient usage of resources and promote technologies and tools oriented towards these goals. Close collaboration with the Flight Control Teams will offer her/him the enriching experience of seeing the end-use of the systems under her or his responsibility.

This position supports the European Union's Earth observation Copernicus programme.

What you’ll be doing

• Requirements definition, design, development and testing of Mission Control System Applications;
• Technical management of Mission Control System maintenance activities, including definition and execution of maintenance procedures, troubleshooting, reporting and correction of anomalies, management of maintenance plans, evolutions, as well as generation and improvement of maintenance working practices and processes;
• Technical management of development and maintenance of both multi-mission kernel and mission-specific Mission Control System applications;
• Interfacing with internal customers (e.g. operations engineers and analysts), in the frame of anomaly investigations, definition of corrective actions, planning maintenance tasks and releases, identifying needs for upgrades;
• Deliver and maintain the EUMETSAT Mission Control System’s reference architecture and related technical documentation and promote its adoption within new missions;
• Technical management of industrial maintenance contracts and support services, including the monitoring of contractors’ performance against Service Level Agreement;
• Contribute to maintaining the Mission Control System technical and engineering knowledge base within the competence area, with identification of relevant improvements and of technical lessons learned.

What we offer

• Excellent salary, of up to Euro 7,500 NET (after tax) based on skills and experience;
• Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave;
• Full medical coverage for employee and family;
• Attractive pension;
• 30 days of annual leave + 14.5 days public holidays;
• Training and development support;
• Relocation allowance and support (if applicable).

Requirements

Qualifications:

• A university degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (eg Engineer).

Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of five years’ experience in the domain of maintenance of large-scale software systems in an operational environment, preferably directly related to high-availability (24 h/day) applications.

Knowledge and experience required:

• Specification, architectural design and verification of Mission Control System (and interfaces thereof) consisting of telemetry and tele-commanding processing chains, schedule execution and procedure automation, data archive, operations preparation functions;
• Mission Control System Application Software development and maintenance lifecycle with formal production of technical baseline documentation including Verification Test Plans;
• Application lifecycle management functions, such as requirement engineering, configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery and anomaly tracking;
• Object-oriented and component-based software design methodologies, design modelling languages and CASE tools;
• CCSDS and ECSS standards relevant to the Mission Control domain;
• ESA/ESOC MICONYS Product suite used in the context of the development and maintenance of particular satellite missions and technologies and tools in support to MICONYS software lifecycle;
• Managing services provided by industry;
• Good interpersonal and communications skills and strengths in analysis, synthesis and presentation of complex problems and solutions are also required.

It is considered a distinct advantage the knowledge and proven experience in the following areas/systems:

• ESA/ESOC products: SIMULUS suite and DABYS;
• Java and C++ programming languages and related development environments as well as open source solutions and technologies applied to the Mission Control domain;
• Mission Planning and Flight Dynamics functions and related interfaces to ground station;
• Spacecraft simulations functions;
• Software support to Flight Control Teams.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. WE WILL BE UNABLE TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN OTHER LANGUAGES.

EUMETSAT is an international organisation employing staff from across all 30 member states and this role is being advertised on multiple international job boards, but please note that this role would be based in Darmstadt, Germany and would require international applicants to relocate if successful. Remote working is not an option for this role.

More about us

EUMETSAT’s role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.

As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT can recruit nationals only from the 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom). Individuals holding work visas and/or resident permits will not qualify for this role.

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