C004747 Assurance Tools Operations and Support Engineer (NS) MON 6 Apr

Deadline Date: Monday 6 April 2026

Requirement: Assurance Tools Operations and Support Engineer

Location: The Hague NL

Full Time On-Site: Yes

Time On-Site: 100%

Total Scope of the request (hours): 1250

Required Start Date: 18 May 2026

End Contract Date: 31 December 2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Duties & Role:

Assurance Tools Section as part of the Assurance Solutions Branch who are responsible for the design development and support of tools to support the Assurance and verification and validation of Communication Information Systems (CIS) readiness of NATO Command Structure and interoperability with and between assigned National and Multinational forces that participate in NATO-led missions and exercises. The incumbent will be contributing to support installation and operation of the tools.

• Write and update installation and configuration scripts for the branch tools
• Deploy the tools developed in the Branch on different NATO networks
• Monitor and execute and coordinate 1st 2nd and 3rd level support from customers
• Support the software in operational and highly secured environments (mainly air-gapped).
• Execute Site Reliability Engineering activities to make the tools easier to install manage and support.
• Support the development team with configuring Azure DevOps pipelines
  
  

Specific Working Conditions: Frequent travel to other NATO locations may be required for the installation and support of the Branchs systems.

Skill Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• 3 years of experience managing deploying and software systems on Windows systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot Internet Information Services (IIS) Applications running on Windows Server in a complex networking environment. Including environments not connected to the internet.
• System Administration experience on Windows Server including Active Directory Domain Services (AD).
• Clear understanding of and experience with security concepts (access control confidentiality integrity availability) on highly secured environments (HIDS IDS Group Policies Antivirus policies etc).
• Experience with authentication and authorization (OIDC OAuth)
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML build agents deployment automation CI/CD)
• Advanced experience with managing Windows Servers with PowerShell
• Experience in log and performance debugging.
• Experience with installing configuring and managing Internet Information Services (IIS) Applications/web sites
• Experience with installing configuring and managing SQL Server including backup/restore
• Experience with configuring SSL certificates using Microsoft CA and other PKI systems.
• Understanding of DNS
• Ability to perform network troubleshooting including firewalls.
• Ability to communicate with clarity coherence conciseness and engagement both orally and in writing.

Desired:

• Experience with ElasticSearch Logstash Kibana.
• Experience with Jenkins Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with KeyCloack (Realms clients users groups roles)
• Experience with Proxies
• Experience with C#
• Experience 6 or later
• Experience with EF6 or EF Core
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with monitoring systems like SCOM PRTG SPLUNK or Zabbix.
• Experience with Open Telemetry

Required Experience:

IC