Job ID: SCO-11 (IT SA)
Deadline: 25 April 2025
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, for the specific mission of Euclid.
Happiness of our employees has proven key to obtaining excellent results and a client who also regards us highly for excellent service.
Overview
As part of the ESA Programmatic IT Section you will be one of the System Analyst in the Infrastructure and Cybersecurity (I&C) team.
The I&C sub-unit provides IT services, solutions and consultancy in scientific and operations IT infrastructure and cybersecurity across the department. I&C also designs, operates, maintains and evolves this scientific and operations IT infrastructure. Infrastructure main areas are:
- Science data storage, preservation and distribution
- Science data processing
- Datacentre & common Science and Operations Department (SCI-S) IT infrastructure
- Science research environments
- Cosmos portal and services IT infrastructure
- IT Security
You will have the following responsibilities:
- Assist in defining IT Infrastructure requirements into solutions.
- Supporting and maintaining ESA’s science IT infrastructures.
- Support users via the Service Desk
- Ensure good documentation on supporting and enhancing the IT infrastructure.
Specific qualification requirements
The following skills are required:
- Master Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent qualification with at least 4 years of relevant experience.
- Storage: NetApp and if possible experience with large storage infrastructures. In particular experience with OnTap, FabricPool and Storage Grid.
- Strong Linux System administration experience, especially on Red Hat Enterprise Linux .
- Networking
- Be fluent in spoken and written English.
Other skills not fully required but valued are:
- Backup technologies at large scale.
- Deployment automation (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform).
- Monitoring.
Legal and Security Requirements
- All applicants must be legally allowed to work in Spain without the need to obtain a work visa. Only European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) and SWISS citizens can be employed by Aurora in Spain.
- Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA.
- In line with ESA’s security requirements, prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident, and Aurora will validate your employment history.
Location
The work will be performed at the ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid (Spain).
Contract
- The selected candidate will receive good remuneration.
- You will be registered for both social security and tax in Spain.
- The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday.
- In addition to public health services Aurora provides private medical insurance in Spain (the inclusion into the private health insurance policy is at the discretion of the insurance provider).
- Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included.
- Aurora can assist financially and provide recent experience information for relocation.
To be considered for this Position
Prior to 25 April 2025, please apply via our Job Application form quoting SCO-11 (IT SA) as reference.
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