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
• Retirement Pension Plan
About the job
Based in Ramstein, Germany you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will install, operate and maintain Air & Missile Defence Command & Control (AMDC2) systems and software, databases and other applications and ICT Platforms. You will directly support the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) Mission by joining a BMD Duty Support Shift, which may operate on a 24/7 basis. For a full list of duties, please review the job description here.
About you
We’re looking for a talented and knowledgeable Senior Technician (Air Command and Control Systems – BMD) with ideally higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 2 years post-related experience, or a secondary educational qualification with at least 4 years post-related experience.
Experience in systems administration of complex computer systems as well as Configuration Management is required.
Knowledge of English, both written and spoken, is essential.
Competencies
The NCI Agency is looking for individuals having tangible experience and knowledge in following areas:
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.
*For information about the NATO Single Salary Scale (Grading, Allowances, etc.) please visit our website. Detailed data is available under the Salary and Benefits tab.
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.
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.