Galileo Ground Segment Engineer

20 hours ago


Praha, Czech Republic Serco Full time
Working closely with EUSPA (European Union Agency for the Space Programme), Serco has contributed significantly to various missions, offering expertise in engineering, IT support, and data management services. Our collaboration with EUSPA ensures the efficient operation and success of space programs, highlighting Serco's commitment to advancing Europe's space capabilities and their role in critical space missions. By partnering with Serco, EUSPA has successfully leveraged state-of-the-art technologies and expert management to advance Europe's space capabilities, ensuring efficient and effective operations across multiple missions. On behalf of our client, EUSPA we are looking for a skilled Galileo Ground Segment Engineer join our team distributed over the EUSPA site's, in Prague, Czech Republic.
Main Responsibilities:
  • Contribution to input documents to service reviews and answer to RIDs.
  • Contribution to technical notes on new or evolving missions and services.
  • Contribution to RIDs to project or service review documentation.
  • Support in updated DOORS modules.
  • Support to SOC to Mission and Service Requirements with RFW/RFD assessment.
  • Contribution to traceability and verification matrices from Mission and Service Requirements to the Galileo Service Requirements and lower levels.
  • Support in the establishment and updating of the Secure Baseline for service provisioning.
  • Support to EGNOS service business impact analysis.
  • Contribution to traceability and verification matrices from Mission Security Requirements to the EGNOS Service Requirements and lower levels.
  • Support to SOC to Security Baseline/Secure Mission Requirements with RFW/RFD assessment.
  • Support in contingency plans, including business continuity, disaster recovery, key management, and other similar plans.
  • Contribution to the review of the security implementation and validation status at service milestones, with production of comments/RIDs.
  • Support in technical notes and presentations in support of the preparation and update of service-related documentation.
  • Contribution to secure engineering design and development methodology and process (including tools).
  • Contribution to lessons learned report (definition and maintenance).
  • Support in the review of ESA/EUSPA project security documentation and provisioning of RIDs.
  • Support in updated DOORS modules.
  • Support to presentations for meetings related to GNSS standardization.
  • Contribution to Minutes of Meeting (MoM) of standardization working groups.
  • Contribution to working/information papers on standard proposal analysis and impact on services.
  • Contribution to RIDs to Technical Notes.

Successful Candidate:
  • University degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline.
  • Experience in multi-source data integration.
  • Experience in scientific and application project management.
  • Good documentation writing skills.
  • Experience in data Science and tools (e.g. Python, R, SQL, Matlab, C++).
  • Ability to manage several tasks in parallel and to prioritise.
  • Capability to work in a team.
  • Pro-active approach to problem identification and resolution.
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken).

On offer:
  • Competitive Salary.
  • Great career opportunities in the Space industry.
  • Comprehensive package of benefits offered by the company, such as life insurance and health insurance.
  • Opportunity to work in an international environment.
  • MultiSport Card.


About Serco:

Serco is a leading Space Services Provider with thousands of skilled resources that has supported over 50 space missions on behalf of more than 10 Space or Government agencies around the globe, including the likes of ESA, CNES, EUMETSAT, EUSPA, ASI and NASA. We offer space capabilities across the full space lifecycle from satellite testing to Launch services, LEOP to spacecraft operations, space surveillance to data management, and supporting downstream application development. With over 55 years history in the space sector Serco is well placed to contribute to National strategies across Europe and the globe We work within the heart of the space sector so understand the challenges our customers face. When it comes to recruitment we are experts in sourcing the very best talent within space engineering, earth observation, satellite communications and cyber security. We have placed hundreds of people from post graduates through to C-suite executives into space agencies, satellite operators, manufacturers, system integrators, consultancies, earth observation/remote sensing, launch providers and much more.