Senior DevSecOps 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 - C005486

Role Background

• You will help plan, build, integrate and deploy secure CI/CD and automation capabilities in on-premises, mission-critical environments. You will work with project teams, architects and security stakeholders to deliver solutions that are secure, interoperable and fit for current and future operational needs.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain DevSecOps pipelines and automation frameworks in secure on-premises environments
• Develop technical designs and install, configure and integrate DevSecOps components
• Plan and run testing and acceptance activities, and support deployment and migration efforts
• Build security controls and compliance requirements into the software development lifecycle
• Implement SAST, DAST, SCA and vulnerability management processes
• Implement Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automated deployment
• Deploy and support containerised and cloud-native workloads on-premises
• Produce technical documentation, deployment procedures, architecture diagrams, security artefacts and handover documentation
• Contribute to risk identification and mitigation, quality assurance and project governance
• Provide regular service reports covering progress, milestones, risks, issues, QA findings, planned activities and escalations

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and professional experience)
• 5+ years in DevSecOps, DevOps, software engineering, platform engineering or infrastructure automation
• Experience supporting on-premises CIS environments, including enterprise data centres and mission-critical systems
• Hands-on experience with secure CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or equivalent)
• IaC and automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or equivalent) and scripting in Python, Bash or PowerShell
• Docker and Kubernetes experience, including container security and image and lifecycle management
• Experience with secrets management, identity and access management and secure configuration
• Experience with Linux and Windows Server environments and virtualisation platforms
• Monitoring and observability experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic or equivalent)
• At least one of: CKA, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Docker Certified Associate, or an equivalent DevOps, platform engineering or automation certification
• At least one of: CompTIA Security+, GSEC, ISC2 CC, or an equivalent cybersecurity certification
• Fluent/ professional English

Nice to Have:

• Experience in military, defence, government or other mission-critical environments
• Previous NATO / NCIA project experience

Working Location

Brunssum, Netherlands

Working Policy

• Full-time on-site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance