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 Gateway Security Services (GSS) Section facilitates and accounts for all lifecycle aspects of Boundary Protection Components deployed within and on the edge of NATO networks in order to protect key NATO information while allowing NATO staff to work securely and process their information.

You will be responsible for all lifecycle aspects of Boundary Protection Components deployed within and on the edge of NATO networks in order to protect key NATO information while allowing NATO staff to work securely and process their information. As part these activities you will also provide technical support (either on-site or at remote locations) in troubleshooting infrastructure and operational issues, will participate in the investigation of Security Events to identify and remediate security incidents and act as Subject Matter Expert and possibly lead technical aspects in service delivery, transition and implementation.

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

About you

We are looking for multiple talented and knowledgeable Cyber Security Professional with ideally a Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience. A different qualification coupled with particularly relevant experience may also be considered.

You should also have:

• Experience of cyber security activities and support in large, complex enterprise environments
• Strong knowledge and experience in Network-based Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) technologies, including detection techniques such as signature-based detection, statistical anomaly-based detection, etc.)
• Strong network knowledge and ability to create documentation including diagrams and processes
• Good knowledge in the administration and concepts of full packet capture, mail and web guards, data diodes, proxies or other network security devices
• Practical experience in analysing packet captures and experience in operational troubleshooting based on the packet captures
• Good knowledge of tools to capture and analyse network traffic
• Experience and sound knowledge of Computer and Networks Security principles and procedures
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of computer and communication security, LAN/WAN networking including protocol network architecture, and the vulnerabilities of modern operating systems and applications
• Proven capability of converting evolving operational requirements into Information Systems requirements
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written

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

To learn more about the 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.