Galileo AIV Engineer (m/f/d)

Fucino
Madrid
Oberpfaffenhofen

Published: 2025-04-25

DLR GfR mbH is a company providing reliable, safe and secure aerospace services. We operate and manage the constellation of Galileo satellites in the Galileo Control Center Oberpfaffenhofen on behalf of the European Commission.
Our company headquarters is located in an area widely known as a holiday destination - the five-lakes region in Upper Bavaria near Munich. At the space industry location in Oberpfaffenhofen, our around 300 employees work every day in international and interdisciplinary teams on the navigation for the future. Become a part of us!

YOUR MISSION:

As a core team member of the Galileo Service Operator (GSOp), DLR GfR mbH operates and manages the constellation of Galileo satellites from the Galileo Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen in Germany (GCC-D) and the Maintenance Engineering team inside the Galileo Project is the driving force behind the staggered implementation of the Level 2 and Level 3 maintenance of the Galileo Ground Infrastructure (Galileo Mission Segment, Galileo Control Segment, GNSS Service Center and Galileo Security Monitoring Center).

As a Galileo AIV Engineer (m/f/d), you will be responsible for performing corrective, preventive, adaptive, and perfective maintenance activities for the Galileo maintenance, validation, and operational environments. You will be in the leading team for the handover of the maintenance activities from the design authority to GSOp.

You should feel comfortable working with heterogeneous ICT environments, enjoy working in agile teams, and continuously learning to be up to date with new technologies.

You will be offered a stable and long-term opportunity to work in an international and competitive environment on a high-profile European Project. DLR GfR mbH is encouraging you to have the initiative and drive to take on the responsibility that will develop your technical as well as your leadership skills.

Your responsibilities will include:

Delve into particular subject expertise related to Galileo Ground Segment and understand the end-to-end Galileo System.
Assist OPS/L1 and L3 teams with problem resolution, system restoration, vulnerability management, and security incident response.
Autonomously perform all maintenance procedures of the segment manual.
Complete the L2 maintenance training needs analysis and training plan.
Support to incident resolution and anomaly root cause identification.
Support the major Ground Infrastructure Releases incorporation activities.
Actively support all milestone reviews related to the L2/L3 maintenance handover.
Coordinate and support with L2 colleagues from other segments.
Support the continuous service improvement initiatives from a technical point of view.
Maintain and evolve the maintenance and troubleshooting platform.
Provide inputs to Configuration Management activities; Mentor new L2 maintenance engineers.

The position can be based in Madrid, Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich and Fucino (Italy).

YOUR QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor's or Master´s degree in engineering or equivalent
At least two years of experience in Operations or maintenance of complex ICT environments as well as in Ground systems testing and validation.
Experienced using Linux and Linux scripting
Experienced with virtualization technologies such as VMWare or Docker
Troubleshooting experience
An advanced level of English (at least C1)
Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation skills

Desirable:

Knowledge of automation tools: Ansible, Kubernetes, Selenium
Software/Web development experience
Knowledge of network configuration and design.
Availability to support on-call service.
Experience providing guidance and leadership to novice systems engineers.

OUR OFFER:

Work-Life-Balance, e.g., through flexible working time models and mobile office options
30 days annual leave and additional days off on 24.12., 31.12.
Trusting and appreciative cooperation
International Teamspirit
Access to LinkedIn Learning
Access to Corporate Benefits platform