Junior Configuration Management Engineer

EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency
- monitoring the weather and climate from space
- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Working for EUMETSAT, you can make a world of difference and be a part of something that makes a positive impact on society You will be at the cutting edge of satellite technology, with a meaningful role in an organisation focused on space-based observations of the Earth’s weather and climate. The EUMETSAT Early Careers Employment Programme (ECEP) offers opportunity for recent graduates to take that first step into an exciting career in this industry. Within EUMETSAT’s matrix organisation, the Process Assurance and Management Support (PRS) Division, part of the Technical and Scientific Support (TSS) Department, plays an important role in supporting teams and programmes across the organisation. One of the division’s

key responsibilities
is providing Configuration Management (CM) services throughout the development, commissioning and operation of end-to-end satellite systems, helping to ensure consistency, traceability and effective management of technical configurations. As a Junior Configuration Management Engineer, you will have the opportunity to contribute to EUMETSAT’s satellite programmes by supporting Configuration Management activities for their ground systems. Working alongside experienced colleagues and multidisciplinary teams, you will gain valuable hands-on experience while contributing to the development of EUMETSAT’s future satellite systems, as well as to the operations of the existing ones. What you’ll be doing
• Support senior CM engineers in defining, maintaining and improving working practices implementing EUMETSAT Change and Configuration Management (CM) processes applicable to ground systems “as designed”, during the development, and “as built”, during the commissioning and operations phase;
• Ensure that the software, hardware and documentation configurations baselines are properly set and maintained, performing regular configuration audits on the systems under configuration;
• Manage day-to-day activities related to the development, maintenance, testing and administration of the CM tools and database and contribute to the future deployments and testing of the EUMETSAT CM tools;
• Contribute to the definition and regular generation of relevant metrics and key performance indicators to assess the performance of the configuration management processes and working practices;
• Support configuration management engineers to keep up-to-date CM data in the CM Tool and maintain related configuration status reports of the departments and programmes throughout development and operational activities;
• Support the preparation of tdata-packages for reviewers or auditors;
• On demand, provide support to end-users on CM processes and technical working practices.

What we offer
The initial contract will be under the EUMETSAT Early Career Employee Programme (ECEP), for two (2) years with grade A1 on the EUMETSAT salary scale. Subject to successful performance, a further contract of 5 years’ duration will be awarded in a post graded A2-A4. Additional contracts may be awarded thereafter, subject to individual performance and organisational requirements. In addition, the successful candidate will receive:
· Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave
· Full medical coverage for employee and family
· 30 days of annual leave + 14.5 days public holidays
· Training and development support
· Relocation allowance and support (if applicable) Requirements Qualifications
• A university degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science Engineering, Software Engineering, Aerospace/Automotive Engineering Skills and Experience required
• Some experience in establishing, implementing and conducting Configuration Management for software and hardware systems in development or operational phases, with specific focus on identifying and maintaining product breakdown architectures;
• Good understanding and first practical experience (e.g. internship or first employment) of software development life cycle standards covering fundamental Software Configuration Management principles, relevant IT technology and practices (S/W build, packaging, deployment, testing; SW repositories, GitLab, RPMs, DevOps …);
• Exposure to Product or Programme Development lifecycle processes such as the ‘maturity milestones’ approach, with associated quality standards and models related to Change and Configuration Management processes;
• Exposure to the definition, deployment and testing of a Configuration Management tool and database, hands-on experience with an analytics tool (e.g. power BI) would be an asset.
• High attention to detail and a systematic and orderly approach to managing work;
• Strong service & customer focus, team spirit, quality orientation and communication skills. A Previous experience in an international organisation would be an asset;
• Eagerness to learn. 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).