The following responsibilities are foreseen (not limited to):

• Contribute to the maintenance and development activities related to the Data Processing Systems/Application Software;
• Contribute to the definition and design of architectures of data processing ground segments and their components, their interfaces, and the validation and verification methods;
• Coordination/inputs to planning and preparation of releases;
• Coordination with other Teams and/or Contractors to prepare introduction of new/upgraded components; as indicated by your Technical Officer;
• Generation and maintenance of technical baseline documentation;
• Contribute to the operations of existing data processing ground segments;
• Participation in technical meetings and formal reviews;
• Analysis of the maintenance requirements and identification, procurement or implementation of the tools required to fulfill them;
• Setting-up and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures;
• Perform routine tasks in operational systems under configuration control such as:
  • Anomaly investigations, documentation and classification;
  • Participation in relevant Anomaly Review Boards;
  • Follow up of the delivery of software resolutions for these anomalies;
  • Contribute to Configuration Management (change control practices);
  • Contribute to building and distribution of application software releases and patches;
  • Verification of correct facility installation for the assigned facilities;
  • Contribute to the development, integration and configuration management of software developed by third parties, its installation, and configuration and testing;
  • Perform software testing in a structured approach to verify that delivered software is fulfilling the requirements or to demonstrate that problems have been corrected

Mandatory skills and relevant experience in :

• Engineering of large, UNIX or LINUX based, complex, real-time data processing systems, including requirements specification, design, software maintenance or development, formal software testing and system integration;
• 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);
• Source code control systems (e.g. Subversion, Git);
• Software anomalies analysis, debugging, profiling, fixing and processing;

Additional skills and experience (considering as an added value) :

• Operating systems and application software upgrades and/or porting to new platforms;
• Object-oriented software design, implementation, and maintenance, including the use of UML/SysML based tools for supporting/documenting the design, at least at the architectural level;
• Web technologies and programming (e.g. Apache, CGI, JavaScript, XML);
• Programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, Python);

Deadline to apply: 11th May 2023

Possible starting date: As soon as possible