Space Mission DevOps & Configuration Engineer

Serco Space Services - Europe Careers; Villanueva de la Cañada; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Serco Space Services - Europe Careers is seeking a Configuration Management and DevOps Engineer to join a cross‑mission team supporting ESA scientific missions. You will administer CM and release processes, design CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Harness, and enable automated deployment across multiple mission environments.

The role blends traditional CM with modern DevOps practices, working with software teams, systems engineers, and QA to ensure traceability, quality and reliability throughout

Formación

• Solid experience with Configuration Management and release processes.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD concepts and DevOps methodologies.
• Hands-on Jenkins administration and pipeline development.
• Experience with Linux system administration.
• Good understanding of Maven build systems.
• Experience with Git-based repositories and branching strategies.
• Ability to automate engineering processes via scripting and tooling.
• Experience producing technical release docs and engineering reports.
• Understanding of software QA principles and best practices.
• Ability to work independently within multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong written and spoken English in an international environment.

Responsabilidades

• Manage and maintain software configuration management across ESA mission projects.
• Administer repositories and CM tools (Bitbucket, GitLab) on ESA premises.
• Maintain CIDLs, ensuring traceability and completeness.
• Develop automated CIDL generation and maintenance approaches.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Harness.
• Support integration with SonarQube and related quality platforms.
• Coordinate automated builds, tests, and releases.
• Produce release notes, baselines and release documentation.
• Support automated test campaigns across environments.
• Coordinate deployments across development to operations environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and environment provisioning.
• Support containerised deployments and Kubernetes environments.
• Develop scripts/tools to automate operations and reporting.
• Produce engineering metrics and quality indicators.
• Support Product Assurance activities and audits.
• Prepare technical documentation and engineering reports.
• Collaborate to harmonise workflows across missions.
• Propose and improve common deployment and CM practices.

Conocimientos

Configuration Management

CI/CD concepts

Jenkins

Linux administration

Maven

Git repositories

Automated testing

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Documentation

English communication

Herramientas

Bitbucket

GitLab

SonarQube

Kubernetes

Jenkins (tool)

Harness

Descripción del empleo

Serco Space Services - Europe Careers is seeking a Configuration Management and DevOps Engineer to join a cross‑mission team supporting ESA scientific missions. You will administer CM and release processes, design CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Harness, and enable automated deployment across multiple mission environments.

The role blends traditional CM with modern DevOps practices, working with software teams, systems engineers, and QA to ensure traceability, quality and reliability throughout