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 NATO's 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 NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's 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 NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.
The program
Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO's 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 categorise's: 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 Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the NATO Software Factory team in daily activities applying Dev Sec Ops best practices.
• Interact with customers and stakeholders to help during onboarding and planning, development, test and deployment activities.
• Help to improve the platform by introducing features to increase security, scalability and stability.
• Support to and maintenance of the trusted container process and associated toolchain

Essential Skills and Experience
Continuous Planning:

• Agile planning and delivery
• SCRUM
• JIRA

Continuous integration and delivery:

• Git
• Infrastructure as Code such as ARM, Terraform or Ansible
• Designing and implementing build/deploy pipelines using services such as Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops YAML pipelines or Jenkins
• Cloud Paa S services such as App Services, Functions, My SQL & Postgre SQL
• Application security/code quality testing tools such as Sonar Qube, Checkmarx or WASP Dependency Check
• Shift left/right testing using test automation tools such as Junit/NUnit, Selenium, Protractor, Cucumber
• Test Management Tools such as Azure Dev Ops advanced test or Test Management for Jira

Continuous Operations:

• Telemetry/Monitoring solutions such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Grafana or Prometheus
• Compliancy solutions such as Azure Policy
• Modern Service Management

Containerization:

• Kubernetes
• Managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including day 1 and day 2 operations
• Helm
• Container Registry
• Container vulnerability scanning tools such as Clair and Anchore

Programming knowledge:

• C# .NET Core
• JAVA
• Power Shell
• Bash

Working Location

• Brussels, Belgium

Working Policy

• On-Site
• Occasional home office can be agreed

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance