C004706 Operations & Exercises Network Engineer (NS) - WED 11 Mar

Operations & Exercises Network Engineer

Deadline Date: Wednesday 11 March 2026

Location: Grazzanise, Italy

Full time on-site: Yes

Total Scope of the request (hours): 418

Required Start Date: 15-APR-2026

End Contract Date: 30-DEC-2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO Secret

Specific Working Conditions: Some work outside normal office hours may be required

Duties and Role:

Under the direction of the Senior Routing and Switching Engineer, but largely under own initiative, the incumbent will perform project duties such as the following:

• Direct 1st level fault resolution on Routing and Switching Elements to sectors, sites and the Service Area routing cells
• Advises on fault diagnosis throughout NATO sites utilizing a number of management platforms (e.g. HP Openview, Netscout, Cisco Works)
• Ensure that, on Routing and Switching elements, remote routine maintenance throughout NATO sites is performed
• Coordinate with sites for Routing and Switching elements centralisation, standardisation and best practices
• Liaise and collaborate internally throughout the NCI Agency Service Line infrastructures and to external organisations for fault rectification activities
• Being responsible for the creation and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures within the Routing and Switching Cell
• Coordination, and performance, of configuration, and evaluation, of test scenarios within the NGCS Reference Facility, pertinent to the area of Routing and network configuration problem resolution
• Coordinates and performs routing infrastructures design, configuration and maintenance activities for all appointed NATO exercise scenarios and Operations
• Performing the practical evaluation of management tools and capabilities
• Ensure a common understanding of the available toolsets and method of utilization within the centralised and distributed user base
• Investigating and proposing long term solutions to encountered equipment and configuration problems
• When required, coordinates on-site surveys, validations and system acceptance testing into the Routing infrastructure.