Systems Analyst in the Server and Desktop Section

Reference no.: AP10-04

Grade: A2, according to the scales of the Co-ordinated Organisations.

Location:

ECMWF Headquarters at Shinfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Environment:

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an international organisation supported by 31 States*. Its prime objectives are the operational production of analyses, medium-range forecasts of weather and ocean waves and seasonal forecasts as well as scientific and technical research directed to the improvement of these forecasts. ECMWF operates a large computing facility including supercomputers, data archiving systems and networks. For details see:

www.ecmwf.int/services/computing/overview

Main duties:

The main duties will include:

Qualifications:

A university education to degree standard or equivalent is required, coupled with at least two years of relevant professional experience. The successful candidate should have experience in system administration and supporting users preferably in a heterogeneous environment, with strong skills in centralised administration of Microsoft Windows systems and applications using system management tools.

In addition, experience in or knowledge of some of the following technologies is a distinct advantage: Active Directory, XML, SQL, VMware or other virtualisation systems, Linux, Unix systems, shell scripting, Perl, LDAP.

The successful candidate should be proactive and have good analytical skills; excellent inter-personal skills are essential for this position, which involves direct interaction with users to both understand the problems they experience and explain to them how to use the systems successfully. He or she should have a high level of professional skills, but in acknowledging the diverse nature of the work, ECMWF will provide training where necessary.

Staff are normally recruited from among the nationals of the following Member and Co-operating States: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.

Remuneration:

For Grade A2: within the range of £3,795.24 to £5,069.79 basic salary per month net of tax .

In principle, a staff member will be engaged at the lowest step of the lower grade of the post for which he or she is selected.

A deduction is made from the basic salary for the Pension Scheme and for Partial Invalidity (currently 8.8% for the Pension Scheme and 0.2% for Partial Invalidity). A further 1.46% of basic salary and related allowances is currently deducted for the ECMWF Supplementary Health Insurance Scheme.

Starting date: As soon as possible.

Length of contract: Maximum of four years for initial contract, with the possibility of renewal.

Applications: Application forms in word format can be downloaded from here (162kb) and completed on-line. If you download, you may (if near to the closing date) e-mail the completed form only back to ECMWF at jobs@ecmwf.int. Please note, however, that you must still send your full application form together with all the attachments to ECMWF by post. Under no circumstances should you e-mail your attachments.

Closing date: Completed applications for this post must reach the Personnel Section of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts not later than 23 March 2010.

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* The ECMWF Member States are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

The ECMWF Co-operating States are Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.