Instrument Data Processing Engineer

Job Introduction

Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.

Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe. 

For our activities in EUMETSAT, we are currently looking for an Instrument Data Processing Engineer.

Role Responsibility

The candidate should perform tasks related to Instrument data processing in support of the Copernicus S3 Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS), during current routine S3 operations, as well as for the operations build up for S3B and the routine operations phase for the dual satellite system. The tasks cover the operation of the different data processing components for S3A & 3B, which include:

• Data ingestion, processing and product distribution;
• Data and Product analysis;
• Operational performance monitoring and reporting, including the development, documentation and maintenance of the relevant tools for e.g. production statistics generation and reporting, PDGS monitoring and reporting;
• The testing and the implementation of new products;
• The setting-up, implementation and update of operational procedures and documentation;
• Anomaly investigation;
• First line maintenance, including on-call support;
• Co-ordination with external organisations and service providers;
• Attendance at technical meetings;
• Participation to formal reviews.

Successful Candidate

In addition to having a university degree (or equivalent) in a discipline relevant to the job profile, the successful candidate will bring at least 3 years of experience of the operations of real-time, complex, satellite instrument data processing systems.

Knowledge and experience with the following is considered essential for the key person:

• the key person shall have  demonstrated experience in near real time, data driven, automated systems with large computer networks;
• the  successful candidate  shall  have  demonstrated  experience  with  UNIX/Linux operating systems;
• the key person shall be able to communicate effectively in English;
• the successful aplicant  shall  be  able  to  conduct  all  activities  in  an  orderly  and disciplined  manner,  shall  be  able  to  work  under  pressure  and  with  a  minimum  of supervision.

Furthermore,  it  would  be  highly  desirable  for  the  key person  to  have  experience  with  or knowledge of some of the following:

• demonstrated experience of Instrument data and product processing (Level-0 to 2) of meteorological and/or earth observation products;
• experience of validating complex remote sensing data processing systems;
• development and maintenance of operational procedures and/or configuration data;
• programming languages (e.g. C, C++ and IDL);
• scripting languages and databases (e.g. Perl, Python, shell, Oracle);
• spacecraft and/or ground segment operations;
• knowledge and/or experience of quality control, calibration and validation.

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Package Description

Full details on application.

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

About the Company

Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 50,000 employees worldwide.

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.

Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

If you share our values then join with over 50,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you.

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