VN 26/03 Evolution Engineer

EUMETSAT is entering a pivotal phase, with multiple satellite launches and a broad technology refresh across the ground segment. The Computing Service, within the IT Infrastructure & Data Division (I2D), underpins mission-critical processing and commanding of satellites. As our estate evolves, we are standardising software delivery and infrastructure provisioning to increase reliability, velocity, and auditability.

The Evolution Engineer plays a key role in shaping and modernizing the company’s IT infrastructure. This position focuses on improving the scalability, resilience, and automation of compute, storage, and container platforms to support current and future business needs. The successful candidate will help define the technical direction of the infrastructure landscape and ensure the seamless evolution of core systems.

• Infrastructure modernization: Develop and deliver the roadmap for the continuous evolution of compute, virtualization, and container platforms to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Software-defined storage evolution: Lead the design and enhancement of enterprise storage platforms, including IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) and Ceph, ensuring performance, resilience, and smooth integration with the wider infrastructure.

• Automation and standardization: Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks and automation pipelines using tools such as Ansible or Terraform to streamline provisioning, configuration, and system lifecycle management.

• Hybrid environment integration: Connect and manage on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-native systems, ensuring consistency in governance, observability, and performance.

• Performance and capacity optimization: Monitor, analyse, and fine-tune infrastructure performance; forecast capacity requirements to support future growth and stability.

• Observability and operations: Operate and improve monitoring and telemetry systems to ensure proactive issue detection and faster incident resolution.

• Governance and documentation: Produce clear technical documentation, change records, and migration guides in line with ITIL and internal quality standards.

• Collaboration and knowledge sharing: Work closely with DevOps, platform, and network teams to align infrastructure initiatives and promote automation best practices across the organization.

• Strong background in enterprise infrastructure engineering, with hands-on experience in modernization and lifecycle management.
• Expertise with software-defined storage technologies such as IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) and Ceph.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes and OpenStack environments, including deployment, maintenance, and integration.
• Proficiency in automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization, capacity management, and observability practices in large-scale environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, vRealize, or Splunk.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and operational teams.