Enterprise Solution Engineer

About the job:

Based in Wesel you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join the NATO Infrastructure Services Centre (NISC), which is accountable for planning and executing the full lifecycle management activities (design, transition and operations) for the identified area of responsibility. NISC provides generic, domain independent, technical functionality that enables and facilitates the operation and use of Information Technology resources.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development and integration of end-to-end technical solutions across infrastructure, platforms, networks and applications
• Translate complex business and capability requirements into robust, secure and scalable architectures aligned with NATO standards
• Drive systems development activities, ensuring delivery against agreed architectures, timelines and quality standards
• Provide technical leadership across the full lifecycle of solutions including design, costing, implementation, testing and documentation
• Act as a key interface with stakeholders, suppliers and customers, evaluating technical solutions and ensuring optimal performance and compliance
• Contribute to DevOps environments by supporting automation, continuous integration, deployment and monitoring practices
• Support and guide junior engineers while acting as a senior technical reference for incident, problem and service management
• Participate in NATO exercises and operations, providing engineering expertise both remotely and on‑site

About you:

• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post‑related experience, or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function.
• Enterprise infrastructure and platform services (IaaS/PaaS)
• Identity and Access Management across federated environments
• Systems engineering, integration and DevOps practices
• IT service management (ITIL) and enterprise service delivery
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

Certifications:

• Microsoft, VMware or Cisco certifications (e.g. MCSA/MCSE, VCP, CCNA)

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history
• 5 year contract with competitive tax‑free salary and household and children’s allowances
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave
• Excellent private health insurance scheme
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays
• NATO Pension Scheme
• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more

The NCIA prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and values uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.