Technical Team Lead — Enterprise Application Support and Cloud Integration for NATO with security clearance

This is a lead role for someone who does not want to stop being an engineer. You would own the technical quality of a teams output across a portfolio of commercial applications and the requirement is explicit that a meaningful share of your time roughly twenty to forty per cent stays hands-on so you remain credible and can unblock people yourself.

The estate is a mixture: server applications on Windows and and Java stacks SQL Server behind IIS web applications and a growing amount of cloud configuration across Azure and AWS. Identity work is a constant theme and there is early work on integrating AI capability into the commercial applications.

What you would be doing

• Coordinate deploy and manage server applications running on Windows and Linux.
• Own the technical quality of the teams output and keep a real hands-on share of the work.
• Manage identity groups and roles and configure cloud components across Azure and AWS.
• Support the integration of AI capability into the commercial application portfolio.
• Coordinate support activity against the service levels and resolve the complex issues yourself.
• Run incident logging and tracking properly and escalate to vendors when that is genuinely the answer.
• Build the knowledge base document what broke and what fixed it and share it.
• Implement the security baselines and architecture patterns set by governance and produce the compliance evidence.
• Support change configuration release and test management.
• Work with product owners delivery managers and suppliers translating technical constraints into business language.

What you would bring

• At least five years in technical delivery including a year or more leading a team formally or in practice.
• Strong hands-on depth in a modern Java or Python cloud containers and Kubernetes CI/CD SQL and NoSQL infrastructure as code.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 onwards and IIS-based web applications.
• Good knowledge of cloud deployment on both AWS and Azure and a solid grasp of PKI and networking.
• At least four of HTML5 REST and web services XML HTTP SQL and VBA plus identity integration with OAuth OIDC or SAML2.
• Experience with IIS JBoss or Apache Tomcat applications.
• Practical service management along ITIL lines: incident problem change release.
• Demonstrated people leadership coaching structured feedback and handling the difficult conversations.
• Full proficiency in English; French is an advantage.

Half of the working days each month are on site in Braine-lAlleud.