Network Security Engineer

Location:Darmstadt , Germany Application deadline: 22 April 2025 Reference number: 0230

Are you looking for a new opportunity to take your career to a higher orbit? To join an international group with a successful track record in Space Engineering? A job adapted to your career ambitions and in which you could have an impact for the years to come?

We are looking for a Network Security Engineer to join our team based at EUMETSAT’s premises in Darmstadt, Germany.

In this key role, you will support with the evaluation and improvement of EUMETSAT’s current and future IT security level by providing additional security engineering resources to design and support the implementation of state-of-the-art security solutions.

About the client and location

The European Organisation for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is an international organisation of 30 European member states. EUMETSAT operates satellites to monitor weather, climate, and the changing environment. They are responsible for helping to isolate potentially dangerous weather conditions that could affect air travel, farming and other key service industries.

Tasks and activities

The scope of work will include:

• Trade-off, prototyping, design, implementation and verification of new network and information security solutions protecting assets, data and personnel against loss of integrity, availability and confidentiality.
• Operation, maintenance, evolution/reengineering and troubleshooting of network and information security solutions and infrastructure.
• Analysis of network and computing infrastructure to identify improvements, opportunities and security gaps.
• Technical security assessment and compliance verification of activities with the applicable information security requirements.
• Execution of the full vulnerability management lifecycle.
• Participation in the CERT, including provisioning of 24/7 stand-by/on-call and incident response.
• Regular generation of security reports and metrics.

Skills and experience

The following skills and experience are mandatory:

• University Degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Working knowledge of IT foundations (e.g. network, OS, application, etc.)
• Vulnerability management, in particular performing vulnerability assessments.
• Administration and maintenance of network security solutions.
• Auditing and implementation of corrective actions of firewall configuration.
• Administration and maintenance of firewalls (i.e. Cisco ASA, Cisco FirePower and Palo Alto).
• Ability to provide 24-7 stand-by/on call services.
• Proficiency in technical writing.
• Desire to work both autonomously and as part of a team, in an international multicultural environment.
• Solution oriented mindset, with a customer focused communication skill.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

The following skills and experience would be highly desirable:

• Knowledge and experience in the following:
  • Designing, implementing and delivering large scale information security solutions.
  • Administration and maintenance of information security solutions.
  • Security-focused auditing for compliance to either security requirements or standards like ISO/IEC 27000-series.
  • Patching and hardening of infrastructure in an operational environment.
  • Incident response.
  • Forensic analysis.
  • Threat intelligence.
  • Threat hunting.
  • Administration and maintenance of CyberArk in production on operational equipment.
  • Administration and maintenance of TrendMicro Deep Security in production on operational equipment.
  • Administration and maintenance of Rapid7 insightVM/Nexpose in production on operational equipment.

Why should you apply?

• You will have the opportunity to work within leading space organisations across Europe.
• We encourage everyone to think outside the box and to push the boundaries of traditional knowledge. This role is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking company and allows for a deeper understanding of the industry.
• To be part of a company that values integrity, inspiration, care and collaboration.
• Benefits include: competitive remuneration packages; unique career opportunities, including working in other countries; access to training and development programmes; flexible relocation support.