Configuration Management Engineer (in Germany)

More about us

EUMETSAT's role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.

As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT can recruit nationals only from the 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom).

Job description

In the EUMETSAT matrix organisation, the Process Assurance and Management Support (PRS) division of the Technical and Scientific Support (TSS) department provides management support services to the full organisation.

The PRS division provides in particular Configuration Management services to the development, commissioning and operations of end-to-end satellite systems.

The Configuration Management Engineer provides Configuration Management support to the development, commissioning and operations of the ground systems component of satellite systems. The postholder of this position will provide CM support to EUM Programmes in development.

What you'll be doing

As Configuration Management Engineer you will:

· Be responsible for defining, maintaining and improving working practices implementing EUMETSAT Change and Configuration Management (CM) processes applicable to ground systems "as designed", during the development phase, and "as built", during the commissioning and operations phase;

· Take responsibility for CM working implementation practices on day-to-day basis;

· Ensure that the software, hardware and documentation configuration baselines are properly set and maintained, performing regular configuration audits on the systems under configuration management;

· Manage day-to-day activities related to the development, maintenance, testing and administration of the CM tools and database;

· Ensure regular CM reporting, including relevant metrics and key performance indicators;

· Control changes to configuration items and organise and manage meetings of Change Control Boards and as relevant, Anomaly Review Boards;

· Contribute to the continuous improvement of the EUMETSAT CM Policy, related implementation frameworks and specifications.

Required profile

Requirements

Qualifications:

A university degree (master or equivalent) in Computer Science Engineering, Software Engineering, Aerospace/Automotive Engineering.

Skills and Experience:

· Proven experience in establishing, implementing and conducting Configuration Management of large scale, software and hardware oriented systems in development and operational phases, as CM engineer;

· Practical experience in managing multi-segment product configurations, with specific focus on identifying and maintaining product breakdown architecture (As-specified, As-designed, As-built, ...), and change lifecycle;

· Very good understanding and significant practical experience of software development life cycle standards covering fundamental Software Configuration Management principles, relevant IT technologies (e.g. virtualisation, COMMs, IT security) and practices (S/W build, packaging, deployment, testing; SW repositories, GitLab, RPMs, Docker containers, DevOps, ...);

· Exposure to Programme Development lifecycles, eg. maturity milestones approach with associated CM deliverables in line with quality standards and models related to Change and Configuration management processes (e.g. ITIL, ISO, ANSI, ECSS, CMMI);

· Very good interpersonal skills and experience of project management, with a high ability of activities/deliverables planning, organization, ensuring timely and qualitative delivery;

· Proven ability of being a team player supporting interactions across the organization.

Languages:

· Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. WE WILL BE UNABLE TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN OTHER LANGUAGES.

EUMETSAT is an international organisation employing staff from across all 30 member states and this role is being advertised on multiple international job boards, but please note that this role would be based in Darmstadt, Germany and would require international applicants to relocate if successful.

What we offer

What we offer

· Excellent salary, of up to Euro 8,000 NET (after income tax) based on skills and experience

· Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave

· Full medical coverage for employee and family

· Attractive pension

· 30 days of annual leave + 14.5 days public holidays

· Training and development support

· Relocation allowance and support (if applicable)