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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.\nRole ID - C005425 \nRole Duties and Responsibilities \nESOC Engineer, Enterprise Service Operations Centre Level 2 network support; \nManage daily network operations, ticketing, incidents, work orders, changes and problem management. \nNetwork Optimization, capacity planning, upgrades, and lifecycle activities across enterprise environments; \nConfigure, optimize, and troubleshoot routing and switching protocols including BGP, OSPF, and STP; \nMonitor network health using CA Spectrum and Splunk and other monitoring platforms; create dashboards, alerts, and operational reports; \nAnalyze logs and telemetry data to proactively identify risks, incidents, and performance issues; \nImprove operational efficiency through automation of configuration management, backups, and change validation; \nUtilize network monitoring tools to track availability, latency, bandwidth, and device health; \nLead incident response for critical outages, coordinate stakeholders, and restore services within SLA targets; \nServe as the senior technical escalation point for complex network issues and strategic initiatives; \nMaintain accurate documentation, standards, and operational procedures for the network environment \nEssential Skills, Experience and Certifications \nMinimum CCNP certification (Enterprise or equivalent advanced networking certification). \n7+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise network engineering and operations. \nStrong expertise in routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, STP). \nExperience with Splunk for monitoring, log analysis, troubleshooting, dashboards, and alerting. \nHands-on knowledge of network monitoring tools. \nExperience with incident management, root cause analysis, and major outage resolution. \nWorking Location \nMons, Belgium \nWorking Policy \nOn-site \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":4406,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T17:52:12Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":726,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-senior-network-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-senior-network-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T02:06:34Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2722,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2278,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}