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 The Hague, Netherlands, you will join the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) as Principal ICT Technician  within The Command and Control (C2) Centre. C2 are accountable for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities (design, transition and operations) for Joint/Maritime/Land C2 services.  The System Support Engineer will be part of the Engineering Group responsible for the full lifecycle support of the C2 areas of Land, Maritime, Targeting, Special Forces and the Common Operational Picture.

This post is part of the Engineering profession and will primarily be employed in the application service area related to Collective Training and eXercises (CTX). The duty location is The Hague where the main body of the CTX service area is located. Regular interaction with and travel to the NATO training centres in Stavanger, Norway and Bydgoszcz, Poland will be required to support project tasks and exercise events.

About you

We are looking for talented and knowledgeable Principal ICT Technician  who holds Higher vocational training in the area of computer science with 3 years of working experience or a secondary educational qualification with 5 years post-related experience as a system manager of Linux servers including the following areas; 3 years of working experience as a system manager of MS Windows 2012 or above servers; 3 years of working experience as a system manager of Oracle, MS SQLServer or PostGres servers; 3 years of working experience as a system manager of MS IIS servers; 3 years of working experience as a system manager of virtualised servers using VMware; 3 years of working experience as a system manager of source code control servers, preferably MS SourceSafe or GitHub.

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

Language Proficiency:

A thorough knowledge of one of the two NATO languages, both written and spoken, is essential and some knowledge of the other is desirable;

NOTE:  Most of the work of the NCI Agency is conducted in the English language.

To learn more about the NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.LI-T

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.

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