Enterprise Solution Engineer

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 Wesel 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 NATO Infrastructure Services Centre (NISC) which is accountable for planning and executing the full lifecycle management activities (design transition and operations) for the identified area of responsibility. NISC provides generic domain independent technical functionality that enables and facilitates the operation and use of Information Technology resources.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Enterprise Solution Engineer who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

Lead the design development and integration of end-to-end technical solutions across infrastructure platforms networks and applications

• Translate complex business and capability requirements into robust secure and scalable architectures aligned with NATO standards

• Drive systems development activities ensuring delivery against agreed architectures timelines and quality standards

• Provide technical leadership across the full lifecycle of solutions including design costing implementation testing and documentation

• Act as a key interface with stakeholders suppliers and customers evaluating technical solutions and ensuring optimal performance and compliance

• Contribute to DevOps environments by supporting automation continuous integration deployment and monitoring practices

• Support and guide junior engineers while acting as a senior technical reference for incident problem and service management

• Participate in NATO exercises and operations providing engineering expertise both remotely and on-site

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

About you:

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

• A minimum requirement of a Bachelors degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post -related experience. Or exceptionally the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidates particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency that is at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function.

• Enterprise infrastructure and platform services (IaaS/PaaS)

• Identity and Access Management across federated environments

• Systems engineering integration and DevOps practices

• IT service management (ITIL) and enterprise service delivery

• Fluency in English both written and spoken

Certifications:

• Microsoft VMware or Cisco certifications (e.g. MCSA/MCSE VCP CCNA)

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 values 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.