Cloud Engineer

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO UN EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services specialised aerospace and defence sales delivery and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATOs member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATOs communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATOs military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATOs mission to detect deny and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATOs information technology infrastructure including its databases applications and servers.

Overall the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATOs communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATOs principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV and when required stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorises: NATO International Civilians (NIC)s Military (Mil) and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID 2025-0302

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Support NCI Agency in the NATO Programmes of Work with ACT in the area of cloud automation technologies.
• Provide technical support to NATO exercises and associated events organized by NATO bodies and the Agency.
• Collaborate in the development of software automation code using Terraform Ansible and/or Helm for the events.
• Perform cloud administration tasks on an AWS account based on GitOps and on multiple Microsoft Azure tenants.
• Collaborate in the planning and organizational aspects for the upcoming experimentations.
• Participate in bi-weekly project meetings held in the NCI Agency in The Hague either online or face-to-face.

Essential Skills Experience and Certifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field. At least 2 years of relevant professional experience.
• Deep knowledge and demonstrable experience in IT automation and Infrastructure as Code (laC) tools in cloud environments such as Ansible Terraform and Helm.
• Experience with containerization technologies and orchestrators such as Docker Podman and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices tools and methodologies.
• Proven experience with Linux and Windows system administration.
• Strong knowledge of one or more cloud platforms such as AWS Azure GCP or OCI.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles particularly in setting up landing zones and cloud network design
• Excellent understanding of networking concepts and cloud networking technologies.
• Experience with cryptographic elements: Key management (PKI) encryption algorithms (AES) and encryption in transit (TLS) Documentation skills with the ability to create detailed technical specifications and architecture diagrams.

Desirable Skills Experience and Certifications

• Extensive knowledge of AWS or Microsoft Azure. Related Professional Cloud Certifications are desirable.
• Working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
• Experience in Cloud FinOps and resource optimization.
• Experience in migrating workloads (and re-architecting for cloud)
• Configure and maintain network security controls including firewalls VPNs and access control lists (ACLs).
• Implement and manage cryptographic elements like PKI digital certificates and encryption algorithms (AES).
• Experience in multi-cloud deployments and hybrid environments.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field. At least 2 years of relevant professional experience.

Working Location

• Remote

Working Policy

• Off-site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Restricted personal security clearance