We have an exciting (and challenging) opening for a Web Data Services Engineer in Darmstadt.
Dynamic, Energetic, Entrepreneurial, Highly Motivated, Resilient … If this describes you then we would love to hear from you :) Come and join talented diverse Serco team at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) based in Darmstadt, Germany.
Discover the offer below and click on ‘Apply’ if you know that your skillset and talents are a suitable match for this opportunity.
- Serco – The employer of choice for a career within the Space Sector.
Serco are a trusted provider of services to National Space Agencies and the European Space Agency (ESA), we have over 40 years’ experience supporting the space sector and providing services for all stages of our customer’s space missions.
- Join our community of space specialists across Europe
We are proud to support the European institutional Space landscape: Serco boasts an extensive network of Space professionals located at our offices in Darmstadt, Noordwijk, Frascati, Paris and Madrid, all within close proximity of our two largest space sector customers, European Space Agency/European Space Operations Centre (ESA/ESOC) and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
- Supporting Women in Aerospace
Diversity and Inclusion is extremely important to us. Supporting women's opportunities, development and visibility in the space sector is key and that is why we are proud members and supporters of Women in Aerospace Europe, a dynamic and global network supporting women's careers in Aerospace.
Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) – Supporting women in STEM (wia-europe.org)
Role Responsibility
As Web Data Services Engineer you will concentrate your activities on the following:
st level Operations support:
- Support monitoring of the web services
- Support in analysing errors and deriving improvements to Monitoring
- Documentation of work routines and error handling routines
- Updating the Knowledge Data base to be used by Operators and Operations Engineers
- Support Data provision and format transformations from Long Term Archive to Online Data Access
User Support:
- Responding to questions and queries related to technical issues in accessing the services
- Reproduce the difficulties users have in access and identify the reason
- Provide material which helps users in accessing the data, in particular API access
Interact closely with 1st level Operations and 2nd level engineering teams.
Successful Candidate
Do you think you are the person we are looking for? See below what experience or knowledge you should bring:
Mandatory:
- Degree in Computer Science or IT related study or other relevant experience
- Strong know how in scripting (preferably Python) and Linux
- Practical Experience in Programming using API's
- Experience in working in a user support role
- Strong team working attitude
Nice to have:
- Experience in an Operations environment
- EO data handling experience
- EO-format and Metadata experience, in particular NetCDF, XML
- Experience with support tools, e.g. Jupiter Notebook, SNAP
- Experience in collaborations tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Cloud application environment experience
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Package Description
What we offer if you join our amazing team:
• Competitive Salary
• Corporate Benefits Package
• Support provided to EU Nationals requiring relocation – Information available upon request
• Company events
About the Company
Why should you join Serco ?
At Serco not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play.
Meaningful and vital work - You’ll contribute to methodologically intercepting challenges whilst achievements will also be recognised and celebrated.
A world of opportunity - You’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression
Great people - You’ll become an integral member of a well-defined and supportive team who believe passionately in the value of our work.
What we offer
- Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector
- A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
- Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play when managing complex public services.
We are a team of 60,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world, we are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
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