Geospatial Applications Engineer

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Date: 20-May-2019

Location: Bath, GB

Company: Lloyds Register

Job ID:28737
Location: Bath Senergy : 27 Gay Street
Position Category:Engineering
Department:GB997049 : Survey & Geoengineering (GB997049)
Position Type: Employee Regular Full TIme
Education Required: See Job Description
Experience Required: See Job Description
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Lloyds's Register's Survey & GeoEngineering division (LR S&G) is looking to recruit a full-time Geospatial Applications Engineer to support the development, delivery and maintenance of geospatial related services and applications associated with marine operations within the offshore energy sector. The successful applicant will become part of a small and focussed team undertaking design, development, product delivery and maintenance of in-house web mapping and associated web-applications and data delivery services.

The role will be based at LR's office in Bath.

Key Responsibilities & Activities

• Support the design and delivery of open-source web mapping services and applications within LR S&G's proprietary IRIS applications family
• Manage and/or support the development of applications from design through to delivery;
• Support maintenance of the IRIS infrastructure code-base, front and back end;
• Geospatial database administration (PostgreSQL/PostGIS).
• Generate OGC compliant web services, such as WMS/WFS (Geoserver) and WM(T)S/TMS (MapProxy).
• Create map visualisations using desktop and web-based frameworks (Mapnik, MVT Styling).
• Generate and maintain technical specifications and geospatial documentation.
• Data handling and conversion of geo-survey related datasets , DTM/raster, vector, point-cloud, CAD, GIS.
• Innovative and pro-active, continually looking at new ways of working and improving so LR S&G can expand our service offering to our clients

Technical/Professional/Qualifications

The successful applicant is expected to have a thorough grounding and significant experience in the development of web-based GIS and mapping related data services  and have a good technical understanding of how such services are developed, constructed and maintained. An ability to maintain and develop code using javascript frameworks such as React or Angular would be seen as advantageous, although is not mandatory. Experience with product or service delivery management is also preferred.

A degree Qualification in GIS, geomatics or a related technical / engineering / software discipline is preferred, however relevant knowledge, experience and enthusiasm is equally important to us. Experience, working knowledge and/or good visibility to the range of relevant technical discipline listed below is sought.

• Solid foundation in geospatial programming and automation e.g. Python
• Structured Query Language (SQL) with spatially-enabled SQL database applications.
• Geospatial tile services. e.g. MapProxy, vector tiles
• Front end geospatial mapping libraries, e.g. MapBox GL JS, OpenLayers, Leaflet.
• HTML5 and front end JavaScript frameworks and charting libraries e.g. Angular, React
• Server-side maintenance and frameworks. e.g Linux SysAdmin, Bash, Node.JS
• Cloud solutions and services including Microsoft Azure
• Desktop GIS applications and tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, GDAL/ OGR, GRASS
• Version control systems e.g. GitHub
• Emerging web technologies & API's (eg Streams API), web sockets, ServiceWorkers, PWAs.
• Design, development, test and deploy data-driven solutions.
• Open Source libraries such as GDAL/OGR & GMT
• Geodesy concepts and their application to geospatial data

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