VN 26/51 Junior Configuration Management Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 31, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 30, 2026.
VN 26/51 Junior Configuration Management Engineer
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.
Duties
- 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.
LOCATION
Darmstadt, Germany
QUALIFICATIONS
University degree (equivalent) in Computer Science Engineering, Software Engineering, Aerospace/Automotive Engineering
LANGUAGES
Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.
DEADLINE
4 January 2027
Duties
- 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.
Skills and Experience
- 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;
- An eager learner.
Employment Conditions
The initial contract will be of 2 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.
This post is graded A1 on the EUMETSAT salary scales. The starting basic salary for this post is EURO 5,912 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.
EUMETSAT is committed to providing an equal opportunities work environment for men and women.
Please 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.
About EUMETSAT
EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its 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 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 has 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.)