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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.\nWho we are supporting \nThe 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.\nThe NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:\nCyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.\nCommand and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.\nSatellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.\nElectronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.\nInformation Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.\nOverall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.\nThe program\nAssistance and Advisory Service (AAS)\nThe 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.\nTo 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.\nInternal reference - Labour categories covered\nL5 Network Administrator · L6 Network Engineer\nRole Background\nThe Network Administrator / Network Engineer operates, maintains and develops the LAN, WAN, wireless and voice infrastructure that supports NATO CIS services. Day to day, the role administers and troubleshoots network services; at engineer level it also designs changes, plans capacity and produces network design documentation.\nThe role is recruited at two levels: administrator level and engineer level. The experience and certification required for each level are stated below.\nRole Duties and Responsibilities\nAdminister, monitor and troubleshoot routers, switches, wireless controllers and associated network services, restoring connectivity within agreed service levels.\nPrepare, peer-check, apply, verify and record approved network configuration changes (VLANs, routing, firewall rules, QoS) in line with change management.\nSupport VoIP and SIP services, coordinate with WAN and carrier providers, and perform connectivity and performance testing.\nAnalyse monitoring data, logs and telemetry to identify performance issues, capacity needs and operational risks.\nMaintain configuration baselines, network diagrams, IP address records and operating procedures.\nEngineer level: translate requirements into network designs, technical specifications and implementation plans, including capacity planning.\nEngineer level: plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations and technology refreshes; develop test plans and support acceptance and operational handover.\nEngineer level: investigate complex incidents, perform root cause analysis and develop automation for configuration, backup and validation.\nApply security standards and coordinate with cyber security, systems and project teams throughout the network lifecycle.\nEssential Skills, Experience and Certifications\nTechnical or vocational qualification, or degree, in networking, telecommunications, IT or a related discipline.\nAdministrator level: at least three years of experience administering enterprise LAN, WAN and wireless networks. Engineer level: at least four years, including design and implementation.\nStrong knowledge of Layer 2/3 networking: Ethernet, VLANs, STP, IP addressing and subnetting, OSPF; BGP at engineer level.\nHands-on configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco, Juniper or HPE network equipment.\nWorking knowledge of DNS, DHCP, IPAM, SNMP, QoS, VPNs, firewalls and network redundancy.\nExperience with network monitoring and diagnostic tools, and with incident, change and configuration management processes.\nCCNA or equivalent (administrator level); CCNP, JNCIP or equivalent (engineer level).\nClear technical documentation and communication skills in English.\nDesirable Skills, Experience and Certifications\nExperience with MPLS, VRFs, multicast, IPv6 and SD-WAN.\nExperience with network access control (Cisco ISE, 802.1X, RADIUS, TACACS+).\nNetwork automation with Python or Ansible.\nVoIP/SIP, video or satellite communications integration with IP networks.\nData centre and virtual networking (VMware NSX/vDS); ITIL Foundation.\nExperience in NATO, defence or other security-sensitive environments.\nLanguage Proficiency\nProfessional working proficiency in English, spoken and written (NATO STANAG 6001 SLP 3333 or equivalent desirable).\nWorking Location\nIzmir, Türkiye, with support to the CIS Support Element in Ankara and other NATO locations as tasked.\nWorking Policy\nOn-site. Extended hours or on-call when the assignment requires it.\nTravel\nTravel to other NATO sites in the area of responsibility may be required.\nWork Eligibility\nMust hold, or be able to obtain before the start date, the right to work and reside in Türkiye (work and residence permit or Turkish citizenship).\nSecurity Clearance\nValid NATO SECRET personnel security clearance (or national SECRET clearance recognised for NATO SECRET) held at the start of the assignment; NATO SECRET is required for unescorted access to NATO premises.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6509,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[{"language":"Turkish","level":"All levels","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Turkey","iso":"TR","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Security","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-26T12:48:28Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.902,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-network-administrator-network-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-network-administrator-network-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-02T01:05:34Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1698,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-03T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":183673},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=183673"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-network-administrator-network-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-network-administrator-network-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-network-administrator-network-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/spektrum-group-network-administrator-network-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-network-administrator-network-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3273200}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"spektrum-group.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3273200},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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