Applications are now open for 2 graduates to join CEDA!

Posted on September 10, 2024 • 4 min read • 727 words

We are currently accepting applications for 2 different graduate roles at CEDA:

• Graduate Environmental Data Scientist 
• Graduate Research Computing Service Support / Software Engineer 

Both roles are full-time open-ended contracts with a starting salary of £33,380 plus a £1,000 welcome bonus! You are required to submit a CV and cover letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. The closing date for both roles is Sunday 20th October 2024.

About CEDA  

The Centre for Environmental Data Analysis holds climate and environmental data and provide services to support UK scientists. We also run and maintain JASMIN, the UK’s high-performance data analysis facility for environmental science, an important national asset hosted by JASMIN is the CEDA Archive, a carefully-managed collection of over 25 Petabytes of environmental datasets going back over 20 years and covering everything from computer simulations of future climate to the latest satellite observations of the Earth.

CEDA (the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis) is a Division of RAL Space Department at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The CEDA team works collaboratively in a friendly and supportive team-working environment. Located at RAL, you would be on site among a range of fascinating and world-class facilities with passionate staff and graduates only too happy to tell you about their work, not to mention the wider Harwell Campus buzzing with innovation.

Graduate Environmental Data Scientist  

At CEDA, you will join a team providing environmental data and associated services to the UK academic community. Scientists in our user community need access to large and up-to-date datasets which they can process, analyse and combine with other data on our infrastructure. They also deposit their own datasets in our archives for longterm preservation and dissemination to other users.

You will act as an Assistant Data Scientist. Your primary responsibilities will be in the data management of diverse earth observation and climate datasets to support NERC funded environmental science. New data will be sourced from external data providers as well as products derived from NERC funded science. You will also help to ensure that we hold local copies of a number of key Earth observation and climate datasets required by our science users, and support scientists who wish to archive their datasets with CEDA. Some of your responsilibities will include:

• Liaise with data suppliers and data users as necessary

• Coordinate and timetable data acquisition activities, including automated ingestion and quality checks on new data arrivals

• Describe and document new data products and the activities and instruments that produce them

• Establish and document format and version details

• Present activities and progress at relevant UK and European science meetings

Click here to find out how to apply for this role and see the required criteria 

Graduate Research Computing Service Support / Software Engineer  

The role of Graduate Research Computing Service Support / Software Engineer involves helping to provide support to scientific users of the JASMIN high-performance data analysis facility, across 3 main service areas: compute, storage and the JASMIN community cloud. There is scope to adapt the role to match the strengths and aptitudes of the right candidate, but it would involve some or all of the following:

• Helpdesk: triage/prioritisation, confirming issues then resolving or seeking advice from expert colleagues.

• Information: Designing, reviewing and editing technical documentation and training materials. Helping to deliver training courses, user conferences and gathering feedback and impact stories from our user community. Communicating with colleagues and users via relevant platforms. Contributing technical articles to reports such as the CEDA annual report, and developing content and additional technical features of CEDA and JASMIN web sites.

• Service management: Dealing with service incidents, including identifying and documenting issues to be solved, developing service improvements to fix issues and improve service quality. Assisting with generation of reports & metrics relating to service performance and reliability.

• Development & maintenance: Contributing to development of existing or new services and internal tools. Being assigned specific issues to solve contributing solutions via appropriate code management tools/methods.

• Taking part in team activities across the CEDA Division, playing an active part in an outward-focussed, innovative and friendly team which has a highly-valued reputation with its user community.

You can click here to find out more about the requirements of the role and apply for this position 

If you have any questions, feel free to Contact us.