Senior Engineer (Digital Communications Services)

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 Brain L’Alleud – Belgium, you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join the NATO Infrastructure Services Centre (NISC), which is accountable for planning and executing the full lifecycle management activities (design, transition and operations) for the identified area of responsibility. NISC provides generic, domain independent, technical functionality that enables and facilitates the operation and use of Information Technology resources.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Engineer (Digital Communications Services) who will take on the following roles and responsibilities, amongst others:

Systems design
•    Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs.
•    Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements.

Network design
•  Produces, or approves network providers', network architectures, topologies and configuration databases for own area of responsibility.
•  Specifies design parameters for network connectivity, capacity, speed, interfacing, security and access, in line with business requirements.

Systems integration and build
•    Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration.
•    Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework.

Network support
•    Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for network support and operation.
•    Makes a significant contribution to the investigation, diagnosis and resolution of network problems.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site.

About you:

Some of the valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

•    A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience;
•    At least 5 years’ experience in managing a team.
•   8 years of experience in on-line performance, accounting, fault, security & configuration (FCAPS) management of digital & analogue networks, & associated transmission systems to include switching systems in support of voice & data transfer;
•    Experience in practical Routing & Switching, ideally who has worked on the Cisco Routing and Switching elements for a period of not less than 5 years’ experience in data collection and reporting of Cisco assets;
•    Good knowledge of Information Systems (IS) Engineering & the associated aspects;
•    Knowledge of design, development, implementation, testing & maintenance of modern network management systems in a LAN and WAN environments;
•    Knowledge of traffic analysis tools, such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Netscout nGeniusONE & monitoring standards such as ipsla & netflow;
•    Knowledge on configuration & maintenance of the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 2.x or higher versions software;
•    Knowledge of configuration management concepts & components using HPE Network Automation 10.x and DX NetOps Spectrum 21.x. or higher versions
•    Fluency in English, both written and spoken

What we offer:

•    Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
•    3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary 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

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.