NATO offers you more than a job. It gives you a mission: building peace and security for one billion people in Europe and North America. The NATO Communications & Information Agency is leading NATO’s Digital Endeavour.

We are NATO’s technology and cyber leaders, helping NATO Nations to communicate and work together in smarter ways. Our work is challenging and meaningful, and you will develop and apply your expertise as part of a dynamic international team of civilian and military professionals.

What do we offer?

•    Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history.
•    3 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
•    Retirement Pension Plan

About the job

Based in Brussels, Belgium you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will be responsible for leading the design and configuration documentation of assigned ICT Platforms (Workstation Management and VTC) and implementing procedures, tools and techniques for monitoring and managing the performance of these platforms. You will operate and maintain the VDI and Thin Client infrastructures as well as the infrastructure for virtual application delivery. For a full list of duties, please review the job description here.

About you

We’re looking for a talented and knowledgeable Engineer (Client Infrastructure) with ideally a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years post-related experience. The lack of a university degree may be compensated with a secondary educational qualification and at least 6 years post-related experience.

Experience with the operation and maintenance of modern, advanced, heterogeneous and virtualised ICT technology is required. We also seek practical experience of managing and operating virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Knowledge of English, both written and spoken, is essential.

Competencies

The NCI Agency is looking for individuals having tangible experience and knowledge in following areas:

•    Deciding and Initiating Action
•    Adhering to Principles and Values
•    Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
•    Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.

*For information about the NATO Single Salary Scale (Grading, Allowances, etc.) please visit our website. Detailed data is available under the Salary and Benefits tab.

All selected candidates are required to complete a Security Clearance, Medical Clearance and Pre-employment Screening process before joining the NCI Agency. This process will require time, so please keep in mind that you will not be able to start working with us right away.

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) will not accept applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at the sole discretion of the NCI Agency.