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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.\nSenior Cyber Security Engineer - Security Architecture & Engineering\nRole ID - C005511\nRole Background\nThe NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to support the design, development and delivery of cybersecurity capabilities and secure infrastructure solutions.\nThe role combines cybersecurity engineering, solution architecture, risk management and technical project leadership, supporting NCIA and the NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).\nThe successful candidate will contribute to cybersecurity solution design, technical requirements, procurement activities, security risk assessments and the implementation of cybersecurity capabilities across operational environments.\nRole Duties and Responsibilities\nDesign and develop cybersecurity solution architectures for infrastructure, business and functional environments.\nEvaluate alternative technical architectures considering security, performance, cost and scalability.\nProduce architecture specifications, technical designs and documentation for cloud-based and on-premises solutions.\nIdentify cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats and architectural risks.\nConduct security risk assessments and business impact analyses.\nDesign and recommend security controls, countermeasures and risk mitigation solutions.\nSupport security incident investigations and incident management activities.\nDefine, document, prioritise and manage technical and security requirements.\nMaintain requirements baselines, stakeholder agreements and traceability.\nGather stakeholder requirements and translate them into technical and architectural solutions.\nProvide technical leadership and cybersecurity engineering input to implementation projects.\nCoordinate cybersecurity delivery activities across engineering teams.\nPrepare Statements of Work, implementation plans, technical specifications and engineering documentation.\nSupport cybersecurity procurement, including requirements definition, bid evaluation and technical assessments.\nContribute to system integration, quality control, change management and operational handover.\nPrepare technical reports, engineering documentation and post-implementation specifications.\nPresent cybersecurity engineering information to technical and management stakeholders.\nRepresent NCIA/NCSC in technical working groups and forums.\nLead or coordinate small technical teams where required.\nEssential Skills\nCybersecurity engineering and secure solution architecture.\nIdentification and assessment of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and threats.\nDesign and implementation of cybersecurity capabilities in operational environments.\nSecurity risk assessment, risk management and mitigation planning.\nCryptographic technologies, including key management.\nIdentity and Access Management (IAM).\nNetwork monitoring and threat detection technologies.\nCybersecurity architecture for cloud infrastructure.\nDevelopment of technical requirements, system diagrams and engineering documentation.\nExperience with cybersecurity procurement and acquisition processes.\nArchitecture modelling and systems-of-systems design.\nProficiency in ArchiMate modelling language.\nStakeholder engagement, technical presentations and communication.\nExperience coordinating or leading small engineering teams.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving and technical writing skills.\nEnglish proficiency at NATO STANAG 6001 Level 3 or higher.\nExperience\nAt least 3 years of practical experience developing or delivering cybersecurity services.\nProven experience identifying vulnerabilities, assessing threats and implementing cybersecurity solutions.\nExperience developing technical requirements, architectural diagrams and cybersecurity engineering deliverables.\nExperience designing and implementing security capabilities in operational environments.\nExperience in stakeholder management and technical leadership.\nExperience leading small teams.\nDesirable Experience:\nPrevious experience working for or supporting military or governmental organisations.\nFamiliarity with complex, multi-stakeholder cybersecurity environments.\n\nEducations and Certifications\nEducation:\n- Bachelor's degree from a nationally recognised or certified university in a related discipline, together with at least 3 years of post-related experience.\nAlternative education pathway:\n- Candidates without a university degree may exceptionally qualify with at least 10 years of extensive and progressive relevant experience, demonstrating abilities of particular interest to NCIA.\nRelevant Certifications:\nCertified Information Security Manager (CISM).\nCertified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).\nGIAC Security certification.\nWorking Location\nMons, Belgium\nWorking Policy\nWorking arrangement: Full-time on-site as the 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Contractors must provide suitable equipment for public/unclassified work when working remotely.\nTravel: May be required to NCIA locations in Belgium, the Netherlands or other NATO countries.\nTravel\nSome travel to other NATO sites may be required\nSecurity Clearance\nValid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance","description_format":"text","description_chars":8122,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Information Security","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-28T20:25:49Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":84,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.888,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-senior-cyber-security-engineer-security-architecture-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-senior-cyber-security-engineer-security-architecture-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T22:14:58Z","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":486,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"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-senior-cyber-security-engineer-security-architecture-engineering"},{"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-senior-cyber-security-engineer-security-architecture-engineering"},{"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-senior-cyber-security-engineer-security-architecture-engineering"},{"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-senior-cyber-security-engineer-security-architecture-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-senior-cyber-security-engineer-security-architecture-engineering"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3419173}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"spektrum-group.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3419173},"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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