JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Application Infrastructure Engineer

in DG BUDG of the European Commission

Job title: Specialist – Infrastructure Engineer – Applications

Domain: Information Technology (IT Support & Infrastructure)

Where: Unit BUDG.R.4 – „ IT systems, tools and infrastructure“, Brussels

Function Group: FG IV

Contract Type: 3b

Express your interest until: 07/01/2026 – 12.00 (Brussels time)

WE ARE

DG Budget is in charge of preparing the yearly budget to be implemented by the other DGs, and to prepare the Annual accounts.

The vision of unit BUDG.R.4 (IT systems, tools and infrastructure) is “We find solutions”. These solutions, based on state-of-the-art developments and services in Information Technology, support the missions of DG Budget. In order to achieve its mission, the unit provides end-to-end IT solutions enabling and facilitating the DG’s duties and acts as the service provider for the standard corporate financial Information Systems as well as DG Budget’s IT portfolio.

The main activities of the unit are to:

• Ensure their proper functioning in the various environments up to production, with the expected availability level;

• Participate to the definition of the systems architecture including interfacing with external systems;

• Ensure Information Systems conform to Commission’s financial regulations, Commission’s IT architecture and tools, and security recommendations;

• Ensure their proper functioning in the various environments up to production, with the expected availability level;

• Provide second and third level support to end-users;

• Support the SUMMA programme in close collaboration with stakeholder units (IT and business units), encompassing its development, customisation, implementation, and operations.

The project portfolio managed by the unit is wide and covers domains like IT governance, methodologies, Enterprise Architecture, refactoring of existing information systems or part of information systems, maintenance and business continuity. Collaboration with the ‘business unit’ is a must considering the portfolio scope.

The unit, composed of 16 officials together with about 42 experts, is split in four sectors: ‘Support to Corporate and Local Solutions’, ‘Technical / Functional Support’, ‘Security’, and ‘SWIFT, Bloomberg and specific applicative tools’.

WE PROPOSE

Unit R4 (IT systems, tools and infrastructure) of DG Budget is seeking to hire one Infrastructure Engineer for the Sector ‘Technical / Functional Support’.

The position will consist in:

• Provide technical or technico-functional Project coordination & management (as Project Manager);

• Propose architecture improvements and prepare strategy papers;

• Coordinate IT documentation drafting with the technical experts;

• Follow-up the SAP and non-SAP infrastructure and its satellites (high availability, monitoring of incidents and issues);

• Follow-up and coordinate the various upgrades and evolution of the landscape, the Releases

• Ensure improvement of High Availability and Disaster Recovery Plan;

• Follow-up the Business Continuity Plan;

• Coordinate and monitor interfaces and proposes improvements;

• Follow-up on implementation of security measures.

WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for an enthusiastic person with a strong sense of service and organisation, a very good team spirit, willing to learn and to share experiences with others.

Technical infrastructure expertise of SAP technologies (S4/HANA, BW, GRC, Solman, PO; Hana database) is essential.

Project coordination and management experience is a must.

Cloud expertise, as well as security or functional expertise in SAP will be significant assets.

Experience in Sap projects (upgrades or migrations or roll-out) will be significant assets.

Linux expertise is an asset.

And the candidate should have a strong background in information systems [IS] management and support, as well as good analytical & communication skills (as the job requires liaison with user’s groups and other teams).

Good knowledge of French and English is required.

Dynamism and motivation, team spirit, service-oriented mind-set, pro-activity, ability to work with different teams with different expectations, are the qualities we are looking for.

If you are interested in IT as a service to users, if you’d like to join the team supporting and maintaining one of the biggest corporate IT System of the Commission, this job is for you.

Training objectives in addition of learning curve concept will be available accordingly.

HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST?

With a view to guaranteeing equal access to all, the Commission recruits from an open database of spontaneous applications. The present call for interests aims at helping the recruiters to identify potentially interested candidates within this database.

In practice, to express your interest, please follow the subsequent two steps:

If you are not registered yet in the open EPSO database, please do so at the following address: . Please select under selection procedures for contract agent the CAST permanent profile that best suits your education and experience.

You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:
1. your CV 2. motivation letter 3. duly filled in application form.
Please send these documents by the publication deadline to [email protected] indicating the call for interest reference EC/2025/BUDG/GFIV/499945 in the subject.

No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.