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

·         Pension Scheme

About the job

Based in Mons, Belgium you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour.

The NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is responsible for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities for cyber security. In executing this responsibility, NCSC provides specialist cyber security-related services covering the spectrum of scientific, technical, acquisition, operations, maintenance, and sustainment support, throughout the lifecycle of NATO Communications and Information Systems (CIS).

The Crypto Capability Validation Cell as the NATO Cryptographic Installation Authority is responsible for advising, certifying, and implementing end-to-end new secure system installations and cryptographic facilities, including site surveys in support of project.

You will provide project planning, coordination, testing and resource management support, lead on site survey, integration/installation and inspection of cryptographic systems for secure end to end services, act as focal point for subject matter expertise helpdesk in support of cryptographic issues and build and test prototype Information Assurance designs to support new/modified requirements such as deployable secure CIS.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description here .

About you

We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable Crypto Validation Engineer with a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years of post-related experience.

A different qualification coupled with particularly relevant experience may also be considered.

You should also have:

·         Good knowledge and experience (at least 2 years) in the following areas:

ü  Security Accreditation of major CIS acquisition and/or development projects for a large organization

ü  Security risk assessment methodologies and tools

ü  Planning, design and implementation of security components of major CIS

ü  COMSEC/INFOSEC engineering of information or communication systems, including fully up-to-date technical knowledge related to future developments in the field of COMSEC equipment and systems, as well as INFOSEC practices and familiarity with related international, commercial/industrial standards

ü  Working experience in the Security Accreditation domain and change management related to the implementation of major Communication and Information Systems (CIS) acquisition and/or development projects for a large organization.

ü  Crypto systems and techniques

ü  Public key infrastructure technology

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

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

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.

Please note that ALL SELECTED CANDIDATES, with the exception of currently employed NATO International Civilians (NIC’s) will be appointed at the first Increment of the indicated NATO Grade, i.e. NATO Grade X, Increment 1.This is the salary referred to in this vacancy notice. Extra increments can only be considered for candidates from another Co-Ordinated Organisation.

Selected candidates who are not nationals of the host country and who have not been continuously resident in the host country for at least one year may be eligible for an expatriate allowance. For the purposes of determining continuous residence, NATO considers mainly the work location at the time recruitment started, independent of whether various ties were kept with the home country. For more information on our allowances click here.

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.