Cloud Platform Engineer

Ready to launch your career with Europe’s meteorological satellite agency? At EUMETSAT, we are not just monitoring the weather and climate from space—we are shaping the future of weather and climate science, 24/7, 365 days a year.

Be part of a dynamic team where your efforts contribute to a greater purpose. Within the Digital Solutions and SAF Division (DSA) as Cloud Platform Engineer you will support maintenance and evolutions of Cloud Services. We are looking for an expert who brings a product mindset to platform development, treating the cloud services and infrastructure as products that serve and empower internal and external engineering teams. As post holder you will shape our cloud services by building and maintaining platform services using technologies like Kubernetes, Crossplane and Backstage, will work closely with users of the cloud solutions to understand their needs and deliver self-service capabilities and boost productivity, reliability and scale.

With EUMETSAT, your work isn't just a job—it's a mission to empower decision-makers, protect communities, and safeguard our planet.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Design, implement, and maintain self-service solutions running on EUMETSAT’s hybrid cloud.
- Contribute to and support the implementation of overall EUMETSAT Cloud and AI/ML Strategy.
- Collaborate with end-users and engineering teams at Member States to understand pros and cons as well as opportunities to improve the user experience.
- Provide technical expertise to the other teams in EUMETSAT on private and public cloud services, including container management solutions and higher-level cloud services;
- Promote and advocate cloud technologies adoption in EUMETSAT including establishment of best practices as well as sharing and maintaining the “know-how”.
- Conduct technical interactions with service providers and industrial partners.

**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)

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications**:
University degree in computer science, software engineering or other relevant discipline.

**Skills and Experience**:

- Proven practical experience using cloud infrastructures.
- Strong and applied expertise in cloud infrastructure architecture and implementations;
- Hands-on experience with private and public cloud services including Kubernetes;
- Knowledge of backend development in Go or Python;
- Excellent troubleshooting skills;
- Solid knowledge of cloud-native patterns and tools (e.g., Helm, Kustomize, GitOps, controllers), familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform);
- Excellent organisational, communication and collaboration skills with a strong pro-active and team-player attitude together with the ability to work autonomously with a minimum of supervision under high workloads.

Following additional experience in the areas listed below will be considered as strong advantage:

- Hands-on experience with Crossplane and Kubernetes in production environments;
- Proficiency with building and extending Backstage plugins, catalogues, and integrations;
- Familiarity with federated Identity and Access Management;
- Experience in building custom CLIs;
- Knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud services available on the European market.

**Languages**:
**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.

**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).**

Pay: Up to 8,000.00€ per month

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