Engineer

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations. We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

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 C004940

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain enterprise virtualization and server infrastructure across data centers office locations and hybrid cloud environments.
• Configure optimize and troubleshoot VMware vSphere environments including ESXi hosts vCenter clusters HA DRS vMotion and storage integrations.
• Administer and maintain Windows Server and Linux systems including patching hardening performance tuning and lifecycle management.
• Manage enterprise storage backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data protection resilience and business continuity.
• Support identity and access management services including Active Directory Group Policy MFA RBAC and privileged access controls.
• Monitor infrastructure health using Splunk and other monitoring platforms; create dashboards alerts and operational reports.
• Analyze logs and telemetry data to proactively identify risks incidents capacity constraints and performance issues.
• Develop automation solutions using PowerShell Python Ansible Terraform or PowerCLI to streamline provisioning patching compliance configuration management and operational tasks.
• Utilize monitoring tools to track server health virtualization performance storage utilization backup status and service availability.
• Lead incident response for critical infrastructure outages and restore services within SLA targets.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to reduce recurring incidents and improve platform stability.
• Serve as senior escalation point for complex infrastructure issuesand strategic engineering initiatives.
• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices in systems administration virtualization automation and operational excellence.
• Lead infrastructure projects such as datacenter migrations VMware upgrades server refreshes cloud integrations and platform modernization initiatives.
• Maintain accurate documentation standards architecture diagrams and operational procedures for the infrastructure environment.
• Collaborate with networking security cloud and application teams to ensure reliable secure and scalable enterprise services.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation standardization security and operational efficiency within the Engineering Team..

Essential Skills Experience and Certifications

• 7 years of hands-on experience in enterprise systems administration and operations.
• Strong expertise in VMware vSphere environments including ESXi host management vCenter administration HA DRS vMotion clustering and lifecycle management.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere VMware NSX VMware vSAN Nutanix or Hyper-V.
• Strong expertise in Windows Server and Linux administration including Active Directory DNS DHCP Group Policy identity integration patching and system hardening.
• Experience with storage and backup technologies including SAN/NAS administration datastores replication snapshots and backup solutions such as Veeam Commvault or Rubrik.
• Strong expertise in automation and infrastructure as code using PowerShell Python Ansible Terraform or VMware PowerCLI.
• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms for infrastructure health performance and troubleshooting such as Splunk vRealize Operations Icinga/Nagios Zabbix PRTG or Grafana.
• Hands-on knowledge of system security access control and compliance including MFA PAM endpoint hardening vulnerability remediation and RBAC administration.
• Experience managing hybrid infrastructure environments including on-premises virtualization and cloud platforms such as Azure AWS or VMware Cloud.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals in virtualized environments including VLANs virtual switching load balancing DNS and firewall integration.
• Experience with incident management root cause analysis disaster recovery and major outage resolution in enterprise environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers leading infrastructure projects and acting as a senior escalation point.
• Experience with automation-driven operational improvements including scripting orchestration self-service provisioning and configuration management.
• Knowledge of containerization and modern infrastructure platforms such as Docker Kubernetes or OpenShift is a plus.

Working Location

• The Hague Netherlands

Working Policy

• Onsite

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isnt for you please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up.