Ground System Engineer

Location: Portsmouth
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Hours: 37 hrs per week
Pay rate: negotiable
Security clearance required: ISC-SC

Job profile:

The successful applicant will be responsible to design, procure, deploy and verify the satellite flight operations system for the Galileo constellation.
The successful candidate will report to the Head of Systems Engineering and will take on significant responsibilities within the design team for Galileo GCS.

Tasks & accountabilities

Your main tasks and responsibilities will be software systems engineering within the GCS (Ground Control Segment) segment design team.

Essentials:
• Requirements analysis and functional decomposition;
• Design of software systems architectures
• Authoring of technical specifications.
• Interface definition;
• Technical review of software subsystems
• Technical analysis of system design issues;

This role will involve some travel for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Desirable skills:

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial:
Deployment and integration of Satellite Flight Operations System and infrastructure;
Knowledge of Flight Operations components, especially ESOC products
Software Detailed Design, Implementation and Deployment
Virtualised Infrastructures
Satellites Ground Stations, (Telemetry and Telecommand)
UML/SysML
Network Architectures
Security Constraints and Architectures
System Performance budgeting;
Interaction with the customer and suppliers
Support for the deployment and verification of system

Please note:
Some international travel may be required for business trips (e.g. Fucino Italy and Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) for which expenses will be paid in line with the Airbus Expense Policy.

Candidates please be advised that the relevant security controller will be contacted upon receipt of the candidates application.

Candidates that do not hold a current transferable security clearance that they will be required to apply (sponsored by the company) if they are successful. The successful candidate will be required to apply for and receive a disclosure Scotland certificate prior to commencement of the contract.