Principal Technician Air & Maritime Systems

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 (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 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 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 The Hague Netherlands you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATOs Digital Endeavour. You will join The Air Command and Control (AirC2) Business Area. AirC2 ensures the harmonised planning implementation deployment evolution and support of the Air Command and Control (AirC2) and Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) programmes as well as other assigned programmes. AirC2 is the procurement and implementation body of the NCI Agency charged with the effective planning execution delivery into service evolution and through-life logistic support of NATOs and assigned national AirC2 and BMD systems.

You will bring your skills and expertise to The Maritime Interface Service Area - responsible for the In-Service-Support (ISS) of the Ship-Shore-Ship-Buffer (SSSB) System and associated software family of products. The Maritime Interface Service Area provides cross domain capability between the Air Maritime domains ensuring the Operational User can coordinate Air and Maritime activity.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Principal Technician - Air and Maritime Systems to support the integration of capabilities on a specific integration and test platform focusing on the tools automation and baseline management in order to enable technical integration. They administer integration and test platforms development environments and tools to perform site deployments and capability upgrades and who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

• Network design

• Software configuration

• Content authoring

• IT infrastructure

• Systems installation and removal

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.

• Recent practical experience in system HW assembly cable assembly and small PCB assembly;

• Knowledge of networking and digital communication (LAN / WAN) standards and techniques.

• Knowledge of the security requirements in protected IT systems

• Fluency in English both written and spoken

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

**Internally this position is titled : Principal Technician (Platform)

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 site.