Principal Technician (Linux)

Who we are:

For more than 70 years NATOs mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCIA 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 NATOs 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 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 NCIA 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 you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATOs Digital Endeavour. You will join NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) which is responsible for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities for cyber executing this responsibility NCSC provides specialist cyber security-related services covering the spectrum of scientific technical acquisition operations maintenance and sustainment support throughout the lifecycle of NATO Communications and Information Systems (CIS).

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Principal Technician (Linux) who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

• Perform scheduled checks of the NCSC enterprise Linux environments including health checks and auditing of system logs as needed to ensure the performance and availability of NCSC Services are meeting established service levels on the Linux environment;

• Troubleshoot maintain and configure Linux Firewall/SELinux and other security elements;

• Troubleshoot issues related to systems such as Nessus Scanners SIEM Splunk/Arcsight Tenable Security Centre Fidelis and Jira;

• Deploy consolidate migrate virtualize support and decommission the NCSC enterprise Linux environments;

• Utilizing the experience with UNIX scripting and automation with tools such as Bash Python and Ansible support the design implementation and support of systems into the NCSC physical and virtual environments.

For a full list of duties please review the job description on the NCIA career site.

Note that the internal job title is Principal Technician (Cyber Security Infrastructure).

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

• Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 3 years post-related experience or a secondary educational qualification with 5 years post-related experience;

• At least 3 years practical experience of implementing and maintaining Linux security infrastructure;

• Practical experience identifying and mitigating Linux related security vulnerabilities;

• Extensive expertise in operating system virtualisation and network security;

• Software engineering skills including programming and/or scripting knowledge Python Bash/Shell scripting;

• LINUX system administration experience including knowledge and tools especially RHEL;

• Strong understanding of configuration management such as Ansible;

• Strong understanding of security issues surrounding server OS and applications;

• Proven ability to understand and design how different system layers (Application Container Network and Infra) work together and interact;

• Fundamental understanding of infrastructure concepts related to Hosting Networks IP Address Management firewalls certificates Load balancing and Proxy;

• Fundamental understanding on internet protocols including HTTP SSL TCP IP;

• Fluency in English both written and spoken.

What we offer:

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

• 5 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and childrens 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 NCIA and our work please visit our website.

The NCIA 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 NCIA career site.