EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency - monitoring the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This is your chance to contribute to a world leading earth observation programme, set to generate global weather forecasting and climate monitoring benefits.

EUMETSAT’s System Monitoring applications provide central monitoring and reporting of critical facilities across EUMETSAT and the provision of service and products to end users. As Performance Monitoring and Observability Software Engineer you will be part of a team coordinating the maintaining the existing system monitoring applications as well as the prototyping and development of the next generation. As successful candidate you will ensure evolution and maintenance, support new space missions and the procurements for future systems. Close collaboration with the Mission Performance Team Within the Real-Time Services and System Operations (RSO) in terms of planning changes, problem solving and user support will offer you the enriching experience of seeing the end-use of the systems under your responsibility. This role would be particularly suitable for someone looking to build upon existing foundational industry experience with the ambition to evolve into a knowledge expert and build a career within this specialist sector.

Duties

As successful candidate you will have the following key responsibilities:

• Define, design and maintain the EUMETSAT’s Mission Performance Monitoring Software.
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of roadmaps to modernise or replace existing tools with new technologies and capabilities.
• Management of industrial contracts through Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
• Identify opportunities for optimisation and promote innovation within the engineering team, by staying up to date with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies, to drive product excellence and cost-effective solutions into operation.
• Deputise Team Leader as co-chair or engineering representative on various internal EUMETSAT boards, for example Functional Area Management Board (FAMB) and Anomaly Review Board (ARB), and as Technical Officer of various industrial contracts.
• Provide support and co-ordinate activities with operational end users.

What we offer

• Generous salary, of up to Euro 8,500 / month NET (after income tax) based on skills and experience
• Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave
• Excellent 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)

Requirements

Skills and Experience:

As successful candidate, you will bring:

• Proven experience in the specification, architectural design, development and maintenance of medium to large-scale software systems in a high-availability (24h/day) environment.
• Verification & Validation (V&V) activities, including automated testing, software testing, unit test suite maintenance, software debugging and profiling.
• Knowledge of modern software technologies (e.g. web and cloud, containers and container orchestration) and shell scripting.
• Ability to manage complex tasks with minimum supervision, including planning and prioritisation of activities, allocation and coordination of resources, monitoring and reporting.
• Experience managing contracts with industrial suppliers and producing well defined statements of work.
• Good interpersonal and communications skills, team spirit and service orientation.
• Strengths in synthesising and presenting complex problems and solutions.
• A genuine interest in the topic and a strong motivation to develop technical subject matter expertise.

Knowledge and experience of the following would be a distinct advantage:

• Modern System Monitoring/Observability solutions used to monitor real-time/critical software.
• Machine learning technologies in relation to monitoring the performance of operational systems.

Qualifications:

• Degree in software engineering or related discipline.

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. EUMETSAT does operate a limited Teleworking policy. Details can be viewed on the eumetsat.in website. Long term teleworking will not be possible.

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).