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These systems are integrated with EUMETSAT IT and network infrastructure and must operate reliably in mission-critical environments.\nDuties\nEnsure the effective operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous evolution of professional AV systems deployed within EUMETSAT Mission Control Centres and associated engineering support environments, with a focus on high availability and operational continuity.\nContribute to the design, configuration, operation, and support of IP-based video distribution architectures, including AV-over-IP, multicast video delivery, video-wall systems, and operator display solutions.\nProvide technical support for integrated digital KVM, AV control, and automation solutions, including source selection, coordinated video, keyboard and mouse switching, user interfaces, and associated software and firmware components.\nPlan, coordinate, and support AV system upgrades, refurbishments, reconfigurations, and replacements, taking into account lifecycle management, obsolescence, and long-term supportability.\nPrepare and maintain technical requirements, specifications, Statements of Work, procurement inputs, test procedures, and acceptance criteria for new AV installations, enhancements, and upgrades.\nCoordinate and provide technical oversight of external contractors and suppliers during installation, integration, configuration, testing, commissioning, and acceptance activities, ensuring interoperability, documentation quality, cybersecurity alignment, and compliance with applicable change-management processes.\nLOCATION\nDarmstadt, Germany\nQUALIFICATIONS\nA completed university degree, technical engineering degree, electronics, telecommunications, information technology, computer networking, systems engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.\nRelevant vendor or industry certifications would be advantageous, particularly in AV-over-IP, professional AV design and integration, networked AV, digital KVM systems, control platforms, Ethernet/IP networking, or cybersecurity-aware system operation. \nEvidence of continuing professional development in professional AV technologies, IP networking, control-room systems, or operational technology environments would be desirable.\nLANGUAGES\nCandidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.\nDEADLINE\n6 December 2026\nDuties\nEnsure the effective operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous evolution of professional AV systems deployed within EUMETSAT Mission Control Centres and associated engineering support environments, with a focus on high availability and operational continuity.\nContribute to the design, configuration, operation, and support of IP-based video distribution architectures, including AV-over-IP, multicast video delivery, video-wall systems, and operator display solutions.\nProvide technical support for integrated digital KVM, AV control, and automation solutions, including source selection, coordinated video, keyboard and mouse switching, user interfaces, and associated software and firmware components.\nPlan, coordinate, and support AV system upgrades, refurbishments, reconfigurations, and replacements, taking into account lifecycle management, obsolescence, and long-term supportability.\nPrepare and maintain technical requirements, specifications, Statements of Work, procurement inputs, test procedures, and acceptance criteria for new AV installations, enhancements, and upgrades.\nCoordinate and provide technical oversight of external contractors and suppliers during installation, integration, configuration, testing, commissioning, and acceptance activities, ensuring interoperability, documentation quality, cybersecurity alignment, and compliance with applicable change-management processes.\nSkills and Experience\nSubstantial professional experience in designing, implementing, integrating, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting professional AV systems ideally in control-room, operations-centre, or other mission-critical technical environments.\nSound knowledge of IP-based video distribution architectures, including AV-over-IP, multicast delivery, Ethernet networking concepts, VLANs, switching, and network configuration principles as applied to professional AV systems.\nDemonstrated experience in video signal distribution, switching, and processing, including video-wall systems, operator display solutions, and high-availability visualisation environments.\nPractical experience in the implementation, configuration, and support of KVM systems, including the switching and remote control of operator workstations through coordinated video, keyboard, and mouse functionality.\nExperience with professional AV control and automation platforms, such as AMX, Extron, QSC, or equivalent technologies, including control-system configuration, user-interface implementation, and software and firmware maintenance.\nExperience operating within multi-vendor AV environments, with the ability to ensure interoperability between AV, digital KVM, control, software, firmware, and network components.\nAbility to prepare technical specifications, system documentation, acceptance and validation procedures, and to support installation, commissioning, and acceptance activities through structured analysis, clear communication, effective teamwork, and stakeholder management.\nEmployment Conditions\nThe initial contract will be of 4 years’ duration, with subsequent 5 year contracts being awarded thereafter, subject to individual performance and organisation requirements. There is no limit to the amount of follow-up contracts a staff member can receive up to the EUMETSAT retirement age of 63 and there are certainly opportunities to establish a long career perspective at EUMETSAT.\nThis post is graded A2/A4 on the EUMETSAT salary scales. The minimum basic salary for this post is EURO 7,553 per month (net of internal tax but excluding pension contribution and insurances) which may be negotiable on the basis of skills and experience. The salary scale provides for increments on the anniversary of taking up employment, and scales are reviewed by the EUMETSAT Council with effect from 1 January each year. In addition to basic salary, EUMETSAT offers attractive benefits. Further information, including salary details, is available on the EUMETSAT web site.\nEUMETSAT is committed to providing an equal opportunities work environment for men and women.\nPlease note that only nationals of EUMETSAT Member States may apply. The EUMETSAT Convention requires that Staff shall be recruited on the basis of their qualifications, account being taken of the international character of EUMETSAT.\nAbout EUMETSAT\nEUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological\nsatellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information\nis supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member States in\nEurope, as well as other users worldwide.\nEUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to\nthe Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.\nAs an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,\nCroatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,\nLatvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,\nSweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.)\nApply Now","description_format":"text","description_chars":8558,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"French","level":"All levels","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Space & Aerospace","Satellite Communications","Space Services","Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-25T15:52:56Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/eumetsat-vn-2650-command-centre-audio-visual-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/eumetsat-vn-2650-command-centre-audio-visual-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T00:23:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":422,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":445827},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=445827"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Feumetsat-vn-2650-command-centre-audio-visual-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Feumetsat-vn-2650-command-centre-audio-visual-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Feumetsat-vn-2650-command-centre-audio-visual-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/eumetsat-vn-2650-command-centre-audio-visual-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Feumetsat-vn-2650-command-centre-audio-visual-specialist"}]}