European operational satellite agency for global weather and climate monitoring
EUMETSAT operates a fleet of meteorological satellites delivering real-time atmospheric, ocean, and land-surface data to National Meteorological Services across Europe and globally. The tech stack reflects infrastructure-heavy operations: IBM Spectrum Scale, Ceph, and Terraform for distributed storage and IaC automation. Hiring momentum is accelerating across engineering and support roles, with active projects centered on compute platform modernization, in-orbit validation, and algorithm development—signaling investment in reliability and scalability as the organization faces documented pain points around infrastructure provisioning, container platform capacity, and managing technical debt in legacy systems.
EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency established in 1986, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany. The organization operates a 24/7/365 constellation of meteorological satellites that feed critical weather, climate, and environmental data to National Meteorological Services, aviation authorities, shipping operators, and other public and commercial users across Europe and beyond. Data from EUMETSAT satellites supports severe-weather forecasting, emergency response, air traffic and maritime safety, agriculture, and construction operations. The agency serves as a mission-critical infrastructure provider for European weather services and disaster mitigation.
EUMETSAT operates on IBM Spectrum Scale, Ceph, Ansible, Terraform, SAP, and cloud collaboration tools (Teams, Zoom). The stack emphasizes distributed storage, infrastructure automation, and enterprise resource planning.
Active projects include compute and container platform evolution, enterprise storage platform design, IaC automation pipelines, algorithm development for data processing chains, in-orbit satellite testing, and calibration/validation of passive microwave products.
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