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 Transformation.  Based in The Hague, Netherlands the Interoperability Engineer plays a key role in verifying and validating interoperability between NATO and/or national capabilities likely to operate in a NATO or coalition mission environment.

Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because due of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff

The role:

Interoperability Verification & Validating (V&V) is part of non-functional requirements validation and, like security V&V, has a significant importance in the NATO environment. The successful candidate will be working within a highly motivated and cross-functional team, touching upon a different numbers of activities around interoperability, Federated Mission Network (FMN) and verification and validation within a multinational environment.

The ideal candidate will show leadership skills and willingness to learn, and excel on analytical and problem solving skills, being able to think critically regarding systems, and what and how to test. He/she will be comfortable performing different type of tasks, able to speak up their mind as well as listen to others.  The new role will, but not limited to:

·       Participate in interoperability testing events, contributes to planning and execution of events

·       Contribute to interoperability verification and validation activities in NATO exercises, like Steadfast Cobalt or CWIX

·       Participate in Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation (CIAV) Working Groups for the different initiatives, like FMN, ARF or eVA

·       Coordinate, plan, schedule, execute and report on Interoperability V&V activities.

·       Analyse complex test scenarios based on operational use cases, extract the test conditions, design tests events;

·       Contribute to the management and maintenance of the AV&V repository, including services, service functions, test requirements, test cases and use cases;

·       Contribute to the delivery of the Interoperability Verification and Validation services including the IO Toolset and the underlying repository of V&V artefacts;

For a full list of duties, you can review the full job description here via the NCI Agency career site.

About you: 

You easily establish good relationship and are able to relate to people at all levels.  You produce new ideas, approaches and insights to deliver innovate solutions to problems.  Able to adapt to changing circumstances you can manage ambiguity, accept new ideas and change initiatives, further to this you have:

·       Experience as test engineer in interoperability events

·       Experience testing NATO Standards, like MIP, FFT, TDL, NVG, OTH-Gold, APP-11 or

·       Experience testing Commercial standards, like NTP, DNS, SMTP/S, LDAP/S, SAML, HTTP/S,

·       Knowledge of ISTQB foundation principles

·       Experience using, supporting designing, operating, maintaining and testing virtualized environments

·       Experience using, supporting designing, operating, maintaining and testing cloud-based environments

What do we offer?

·        Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history

·        Initial three year contract with competitive monthly tax-free salary of 5,388 EUR and household & 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

To learn more about NCI Agency, our mission and goals take a few moments to visit our website.

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