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. You will support the Security Compliance (OVA) Cell which is responsible for planning, preparation, exercising, execution and interpretation of online vulnerability assessments for NATO CIS and liaising with the stakeholders for removing or mitigating the identified vulnerabilities.

You will perform centralized Online Vulnerability Assessment (OVA) of remote systems and software applications, ensure the Cyber Security Hygiene Indicators (CSHI) programme is implemented effectively and efficiently, define, maintain, update advanced OVA configurations, develop reports and dashboards, database queries, procedures, review security documentation and provide technical advice.

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

About you

We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable Security Compliance Engineer with a Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of post-related experience.

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

You should also have:

·       Experience in assessing or implementation of CIS Security protective measures

·    Expert level of knowledge of the principles of computer and communication security, networking, and the vulnerabilities of modern operating systems and applications

·       Comprehensive knowledge in developing vulnerability assessment scans configurations for large networks, without impacting the availability or the performance of the scanned systems

·     Comprehensive knowledge of advanced Nessus configurations using audit files for implementing compliancy checks for operating systems, network devices and applications

·       Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Power BI Report Server applications: develop queries, functions, procedures, views, reports; remediate errors, improve performance

·       Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with good briefing skills

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.