Job ID: IT Manager
Deadline 26 February 2021
Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA. Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support to ESA in the domain of Science Operations.
Happiness of our employees has proven key to obtaining excellent results and a client who also regards us highly for excellent service.
Aurora with its Consortium is the largest Service provider of engineering and scientific support at ESA/ESAC.
Employees are our key resource! We know that progress is only achieved by a happy motivated team, that’s why Aurora employs top quality staff by offering challenging work, responsibility, a pleasant environment and excellent remuneration.
The client is now changing to a real Service and therefore we are looking for an experienced Service Manager for the Infrastructure and Operations team of circa 20 staff mostly in Spain and 4 in the Netherlands. The post holder will report directly to the Managing Director. The post holder will lead IT assigned activities, ensure program deliverables are met and the program is operationally sound while achieving KPI performance. Utilise industry project management methodologies and tools throughout program lifecycle. This position works directly on-site at the customer autonomously with managemnent support. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretion and substantial decision-making authority while leading team members and driving overall team performance.
As part of the ESA’s Data Science and Archives division, the Science and Operations IT Unit (SITU) is responsible for the planning, design, implementation, management, Operations, maintenance and evolution of all scientific and operations IT Infrastructure, IT projects and IT applications within the Science & Operations Department, which is part of the Directorate of Science SITU is also responsible for proposing commonality and cost efficiency of scientific and operations IT solutions, IT architectures and IT services and applications across the department and to provide it while ensuring the needed level of protection to all those IT components
After the merger of the former ESTEC SSO IT team and its activities with SITU, SITU is now geographically distributed across European Space Research and Technical Centre (ESTEC) and European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), having presence in both sites. The IT infrastructure managed by SITU is also present in both sites.SITU is organized into two main sub-units:
Specifically office laptops, and general user IT such as 365 and email are provided by ESA Corporate IT and outside of the scope.
For the sake of simplicity, only the key areas are shown in the following paragraphs. A detailed document is available upon application.
The I&O sub-unit provides IT services, solutions and consultancy in scientific and operations IT infrastructure and cybersecurity across the department. I&O also designs, operates, maintains and evolves this scientific and operations IT infrastructure. Infrastructure main areas (see RD11-03 for a more detailed description) are:
I&O involves the current systems:
It is expected that the work will be performed at the ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid (Spain). Currently the team is successfully teleworking from home due to covid-19 with occasional visits.
Prior to 26 February 2021, if you think you are an excellent engineer or scientist and you have the right profile to cover one or more of the above activities, you can directly get in contact with Alex Jeanes at email alexjeanes@aurora.nl or you can formally apply via our Job Application form quoting IT Manager(AO/2-100045/20/ES/JD) as reference.
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