Devops Engineer

DevOps 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.

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.

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 categories: 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 Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing / maintaining infrastructure as code for deployment and configuration of infrastructure (ESXi vSphere, vSAN, SDDC, Aria Operations), virtual networking based on NSX-t, infrastructure support services (DNS, AD, NTP) and Cisco network devices (zero touch provisioning of Cisco switches)
• Contributing to design and implementation of infrastructure as code and container orchestration services
• Contributing to the design and implementation of an overall DevSecOps capability, comprising of vault, repository, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.
• Planning for and migrating Virtual Machines legacy payloads to a new vCF Infrastructure
• Implementing hardening, compliancy and security scanning
• Creating pipelines and self-service solutions for deploying test environments using infrastructure as code
• Participating in entire lifecycle activities – including design, testing, training and documentation (infrastructure day 2 operations)

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Relevant and recent experience in administrating complex applications or systems.
• Extensive (at least 3 years) and recent (in the past 1 year) experience in migration of applications on virtual infrastructures
• Track record in DevSecOps and strong problem solving skills.
• Extensive (at least 3 years) and recent (in the past 1 year) experience with and knowledge of Continuous integration and delivery, including the following tools and technologies and concepts:
• Windows Server and Linux Administration,
• VMWare vSphere infrastructure, vSAN storage,
• NSX-T, Aria Operations (vROPS), VDI environments,
• Git (mandatory),
• Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu,
• Designing and implementing build/deploy pipelines,
• Kubernetes, Helm (optional)
• Experience (at least 2 years) with designing and maintaining Sharepoint, SQL Server, Postgres, Active Directory and Exchange solutions
• Extensive experience (at least 3 years) in using Scrum methodology.
• Strong customer relationship skills, including negotiating complex and sensitive situations under pressure.

Language Proficiency

• Fluent English, both spoken and written.

Working Location

• The Hague, Netherlands or in Braine L'Alleud, Belgium. Final location will be determined after award.

Working Policy

• On-site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Cosmic Top Secret personal security clearance