Cybersecurity and Secure Networking Consultant

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role Background

Within its mission, the NATO Digital Staff (NDS) is actively driving forward a number of specific areas in conjunction with the nations, and specifically the Digital Standardisation and Interoperability (DSI) Branch are driving resilient secure communications interoperability for wireless and wired communications and tactical routing for Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) in line with the 2022 Strategic Concept, NATO 2030, Alliance C3 Policy, and related policies and strategies

DSI Secure Communications helps the Nations achieve interoperable, secure, federated and resilient Alliance C4 communications at the tactical, deployable and strategic levels, including application of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs) such as 5G, Zero Trust, quantum computing, and virtualization. The tasks are aligned with the Digital Policy Committee (DPC) Lines of Development (LoD), providing support to the work of the DPC Substructure in Capability Panels 1 and 4 and their subordinate Capability Teams (CaT) including (but not only) for Network and Security, Line of Sight, Beyond Line of Sight and SATCOM

In this context, the NDS Programme of Work (PoW) requires expert technical and managerial knowledge in Interoperability topics, particularly in the areas dealing with secure networking, secure voice, communication architectures, Zero Trust, quantum computing, and data centric security, among others, that contribute to Interoperability in the NATO context.

Under this PoW project, NATO Integrated Mobile Services Centre provides SME support services to the NDS to directly support the NATO Alliance Capabilities and indirectly support the development of NATO Enterprise CIS.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• The selected contractor will be responsible to assist the NCIA PoW teams and the NDS sponsors in providing coordination and manage