Cybersecurity 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 C003561/2

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as the engineer delivering Online Vulnerability Assessment (OVA) service for NATO CIS.
• Manage cyber tools used by OVA teams (further referred as cyber tools).
• Be responsible for ensuring the availability and performance requirements of the cyber tools to meet agreed customers Service Level Targets.
• Install deploy update monitor maintain configure troubleshoot and keep in operational conditions the cyber tools.
• Escalate to the vendor any issues that cannot be fixed by the OVA Tool Managers.
• Troubleshoot identified issues within the cyber tools; liaise with other stakeholders and co-ordinate resolution of those issues.
• Carry out all Service Management activities for the cyber tools including assisting in Service Design workshops Service Transition activities and ensuring full Service Operations activities (Service Requests Change Requests Problem Records Incident Reports Root Cause Analysis etc.) are effectively executed.
• Follow ITIL software life cycle management (such as release testing distribution and maintenance) of the tools.
• Liaise with service delivery manager and end-users to ensure the tools sufficiently support the respective services.
• Proactively propose system and service improvements to provide effective and efficient service operations.
• Act as the subject matter expert of Cyber tools - provide advice and technical assistance to other stakeholders maintain technical expertise awareness of new technologies and developments and contribute to any projects related to the tools and associated cyber services.
• Follow establish and improve procedures that support management of the tools.
• Develop and maintain documentation guidelines standard operating procedures system and service design documents and other relevant documentation.
• Coordinate with other stakeholders in support of related services; communicate with other NATO entities as well as industry partners.
• Produce documentation reports; organise and deliver presentations and briefings for various audience (technical and non-technical) up to NATO executive level.
• Stay current with emerging security threats and technologies.

Essential Skills Experience and Certifications

• 3 years of experience in IT security with a focus on System Administration Security Tools Management in large organisations.
• Strong understanding of security best practices and experience with Tenable products especially with Tenable Security Center.
• IP switching and routing in a wired and wireless environment.
• Virtual Infrastructure management based on VMWare technologies.
• Systems administration ideally both with Windows and Linux.
• Good engineering skills including programming and/or scripting knowledge (python shell scripting PowerShell).
• Demonstrable experience of analysing and interpreting system security and application logs in order to diagnose faults and spot abnormal behaviours.
• Comprehensive understanding of principles of Computer and Communication Security networking and vulnerabilities of modern operating systems and applications acquired through a blend of academic or professional training coupled with practical professional experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication abilities both written and verbal with the ability to clearly and successfully articulate complex issues to a variety of audiences and teams.
• Experience with threat intelligence incident response and remediation a plus.
• Knowledge of python (pyTenable) and PowerShell. Experience working with and Nessus Manager APIs is a plus.
• Knowledge of NATO organization and its IT infrastructure is a plus.
• Experience with Service Management monitoring and reporting tools ideally Solarwinds is a plus.
• ITIL Service Management certifications is a plus.
• Experience with system instrumentation solutions such as Ansible is a plus.
• Certifications such as CISSP CISM or CISA is a plus.
• Previous experience working for Cyber Security related organisations (CERTs security offices) is a plus.
• Previous experience working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements is a plus.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field Or equivalent experience.

Working Location

• Mons Belgium

Working Policy

• On-site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Cosmic Top Secret personal security clearance