Software Engineer

Telespazio is a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%) and one of the world’s biggest suppliers of satellite solutions and services. The company teams up with Thales Alenia Space to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, a strategic partnership which offers a complete range of space services.

Founded in Italy in 1961, Telespazio is based in Rome and counts more than 3000 employees through its various subsidiaries and joint ventures.

The candidate will be called to provide his activity in the Telespazio Fucino Space Center, with the possibility to be involved for short/medium timeframes in other’s Company or Customers operational/engineering centers, with the main goal to grant the proper technical and operational exploitation of systems composing the Space Mission Ground Segment (in the telecommunication, remote sensing and/or navigation technological context).

Responsibilities/ Duties /Tasks:

• System and Operational Requirements analysis;
• Software development;
• SW configuration control;
• Unitary and System Integration testing;
• E2E System and Operational testing and validation;
• First and Second level SW preventive and corrective maintenance;
• First and Second level HW preventive and corrective maintenance;
• drafting documentation or contributing to project documentation (manuals, architectural drawing, user stories and test documents);
• participation in technical and progress meetings.

Critical analysis of the project documentation in input and eventually RIDs production

Deep study and critical analysis of system administrations user manuals to achieve a high level of knowledge of one or more ground subsystems and eventually RIDs production

Extensive usage of ground component in order to achieve the necessary knowledge for operational and maintenance procedure

Development, validation and maintenance of specific operational script eventually identified from operational and maintenance needs

Monitoring of the functional status of the subsystems of the "Ground" component of the Mission Control Segment;

Operational, maintenance and engineering management of the application environments related to Space Missions Ground Segments & Systems;

Generation of operational reports, as applicable for the various Missions

Support for trouble-shooting of detected anomalies and management of contingency scenarios

Attendance to meeting, reviews, teleconference, etc

Qualification:

• University degree in computer science or other relevant discipline

Mandatory Skills & Experience:

• Knowledge of the Angular programming language
• Professional experience of at least 2 years in structured contexts, on back-end WEB projects where the following technologies have been used: Java 7 and 8, Spring, Spring boot.
• Experience in building back-end architectures;
• Front-end graphical interface design;
• Experience in designing RestFul services;
• Knowledge of version control tools such as SVN and GIT;
• Knowledge of tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Kafka;
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases;
• Use of debug browser console;
• Knowledge of microservice architectures;
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript, JSON and Python;
• Knowledge of UX/UI fundamentals;
• Working place: Fucino Space Centre, occasionally remotely.
• Strengths in analysis, synthesis and presentation, coupled with very good interpersonal skills and a proven ability to apply these to the interactions within a team and between teams.
• Availability to work abroad for limited periods of time.

Additional Skills & Experience:

• Knowledge of:
• system engineering standards applicable for Space Missions Ground Segments development, operations engineering and operations execution phases;
• Cyber-security technical and operational concepts;
• System Administration and Networking concepts;
• Unix, Linux and Windows operating Systems;
• Shell scripting (bash, tcsh);
• English language [B1].
• Familiarity with:
• HW and SW System Maintenance tasks;
• Postgres SQL and/or Oracle DB;
• Cloud Computing Architectures
• ILS concepts.