Cloud & Kubernetes Engineer

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 ID - C005507 

Role Duties and Responsibilities   

• Administer, configure enterprise-wide cloud environments (MS Azure or AWS). 

• Provide Level 2/3 support for cloud related issues, investigating and resolving operational problems in a timely manner. 

• Provision and maintain virtual machines, storage, and databases on cloud, ensuring high availability and performance. 

• Manage and optimize cloud networking components like VPCs, 

  subnets, route tables, VPNs, and Direct Connect. 

• Automate the deployment and management of AWS or Azure resources using Terraform, or similar tools. 

• Develop scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to automate routine tasks, such as instance management, backups, and scaling. 

• Perform other duties, as may be required. 

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications  

• Sound experience with Amazon AWS cloud environment (IAM, EC2, ALB, CloudFront, CloudFormation, WAF, Monitoring, Storage, Cognito) 

• Experience with operating enterprise Azure environments (IaaS and PaaS services). 

• Experience with Azure VMs, storage accounts, virtual networks, Load Balancers and Azure monitor 

• Strong and hands-on experience with Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers (on Cloud and on premisses) 

• Experience with DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). 

• Proficiency in managing and securing VPC networks, firewalls, and access  control. 

• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus). 

• Must have excellent spoken and written English communication and presentation skills, as demonstrated by recent experience (within the past 5 years); 

• Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with users, team members and stakeholders 

• Must demonstrate the ability and self-motivation to work on his/her own but must also work well within groups as part of a team; 

• Must demonstrate an ability and keen sense for problem-solving. 

• Motivated, good communication skills, team player. 

• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.  

• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization. 

Working Location  

• Braine-l'Alleud, BE 

Working Policy  

• On-site 

Travel  

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required 

Security Clearance  

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance