DevOps Engineer

Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in Mons, Belgium the DevOps Engineer will join the international Chief Quality Office (CQO) of the NCI Agency.  Within CQO the CFBLNet, Reference and Support Services team is the designated Operator of the Agency’s Reference Environments Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) and NATO's contribution to Combined Federated Battle Laboratories Network (CFBLNet).

The reference environment provides an emulation of multiple NATO enterprise AIS, and is the central pillar of the NATO Enterprise Reference System (NERS). The Reference Environment provides the platform to perform testing, verification and validation, change evaluation and occasionally experimentation.  The DevOps Engineer will be part of the team that provides support and subject matter expertise to CQO activities, in particular in the area of IaaS, PaaS and CI|CD.

The new post of DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of various reference, service infrastructures, and community-of-interest environments used by the CQQ and its customers. This includes ensuring efficient operation by automating service deployment and configuration, implementing proper change and configuration management practices, and ensuring that the environments replicate production environments for accurate testing.

In addition, the DevOps Engineer will provide subject matter expertise to projects, services, exercises, and interoperability events to the NATO Community.  This involves supporting stakeholders in preparation of the test events or witnessing tests.

For the full and detailed list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site where the internal title of this post is Principal Technician (Platform).

About you:

You possess the ability to work independently, with attention to quality and engage with multidisciplinary stakeholders with tact, sound judgment, and adaptability. Additionally, your strong personal drive, motivational skills, and attentive listening contribute to your capabilities which include:

·       Practical working experience as DevOps engineer for at least 2 years

·       Experience provisioning and maintaining of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) in private, public or hybrid cloud environments

·       Experience in developing automated tasks using tools and platforms like, but not limited to:, Ansible, Terraform, GitLab, Jenkins

·       Linux/Unix Systems and/or Windows administration experience

·       IaaS private administration on providers like: VMware, Openstack, Proxmox etc.

·       Experience in working with traditional and software defined networksKnowledge of Kubernetes and test automation principles

What we offer:

·       Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history

·       3 year contract with competitive tax-free monthly salary of 4,915 EUR and household and children’s allowances

·       Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave

·       Excellent private health insurance scheme

·       Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays

·       NATO Pension Scheme

·       Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more

·       Flexibility to partially work from home according to Agency’s teleworking directive

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website. 

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability. 

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site.

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